IT'S A SWELTERING summer afternoon in southern California. The outdoor temperature is topping 38°C with boiling cumulus clouds indicating the high humidity. What better time to duck into the local microbrewery and check out one of the best-kept (but decreasingly so) secrets in North America? Situated in a converted airport hangar, Hangar 24 has gone from scratch to 10,400 barrels in just three years. That's more than 1.2 million litres of beer! The company is poised to double that to more than 20,000 barrels in the coming year, making them the fastest growing beer manufacturer in the whole of the United States.
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