If it wasn't for the professional wrestler 'Stone Cold' Steve Austin, El Segundo Brewing Co. and it's founder, Rob Croxall, wouldn't be where they are today.
— that’s what his business card says — of El Segundo Brewing Co., the brewery he founded nearly a decade ago that has grown into one of the region’s best-known craft beer producers. Its most high-profile concoction is Broken Skull IPA, which Croxall created with former professional wrestler “Stone Cold” Steve Austin. Croxall also runs the Slice and Pint, an El Segundo pizza joint.
“I ping-ponged around in those years,” he said. “I was making progress career-wise but never loved what I was doing.”Around age 35, Croxall looked at his likely career path and grew discouraged as he contemplated his next 25 years or so before retirement. Then he enrolled in the Master Brewers Program at UC Davis, an intensive two-month course with prerequisites in chemistry and biology that gave him the foundation to make beer professionally. Before getting that education, “I felt like I had a good grasp on how ingredients play together, how flavors might work together,” he said. “But as far as the science was happening I was lost.
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