Tickets: $45 for general admission from 1-5 p.m. This crisp ale has all the flavours of a big GLB IPA packaged into a remarkably drinkable. A dry finish leaves room for the pineapple to linger. The flavours are elevated with a soft carbonation and creamy mouthfeel. Where: Sunnyside Cemetery, 1095 East Willow St., Long Beach Sunnyside Session IPA pours a brilliant gold, with citrus, pineapple, and grapefruit aromas which make their way onto the palate. “We want to bring positive attention to the cemetery and keep it around for generations,” Svab said. There will also be historians on hand to talk about all of the souls resting in the cemetery.

He also has a lineup of macabre vendors and booths coming to the beer fest.Įxpect to see horror-themed art and the folks who put on the Midsummer Scream Halloween Festival there, along with family members of Hollywood’s most famous Count Dracula, Bela Lugosi, and the Order of the Good Death, a group of morticians who talk about the importance of accepting death as a natural part of life. Svab, who was born on Halloween and loves classic horror movies about as much as he loves beer, saw an opportunity to bring those interests together with the event. So with the help of beer fans, Svab hopes to raise about $40,000 for the cemetery.Īnd to get live bodies there he’s setting up the drink booths - not directly on the graves, but along the cemetery’s perimeter road - with brewers including Phantom Carriage Brewery, Beachwood, Eagle Rock Brewery, Liberation Brewing Company and Smog City Brewing. Royce, a volunteer with Friends of Sunnyside Cemetery, wrote in an email. The cemetery is a private non-profit and is not supported by tax revenues,” John A. Without more, Sunnyside faces a bleak, gates locked and chained kind of abandoned future. At the end of the day, there is quite simply very little money left.

“If new funding sources aren’t identified, there can be no viable future for this wonderful old place. The 13-acre site is the final resting place for the 16,300 bodies of city founders, Civil War veterans and regular residents.īut it has been struggling financially for more than two decades after its owner was convicted of stealing more than half of its $1 million in endowment care funds, leaving it with just $70,000 per year to take care of the facility and upkeep, which includes caring for the grass and raising buried grave markers.

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