Venice Scores Its Own Brewery: Venice Beach Brewing Co.

Rose Ave in Venice is the new hotness. Launching your own brewery is the new hotness. And when the two collide, Venice Beach Brewing Company is born, opening just a few spaces down from Venice Beach Wines and Oscar's Cerveteca on Rose Ave near 7th. Partners and Venice inhabitants Kerr Smith (he's an actor from NCIS and Dawson's Creek) and Tim Benedick are playing around with four beers to start, there's a Venice Ale, June Gloom (Belgian white), Dirty Blonde, and Ink (chocolate oatmeal stout). According to VBBC's website, Smith and Benedick plan to debut in January 2012. More to come. [EaterWire]