On Belmont Shore’s waterfront in Long Beach with views of the Los Angeles harbor and Catalina Island in the distance, Belmont Brewing Company is one of Southern California’s pioneering craft breweries — open since 1990, delivering fresh-brewed beers on an oceanfront patio that has been one of the best places to drink craft beer in the LA area for over three decades. The Long Beach Crude stout and Top Sail amber are the house legends.