Growing up in the English countryside of Cornwall, Rich Lloyd was introduced to ale at a young age, and his affinity grew bolder in the bars of London, where he worked in the legal field for many years. He even met his wife at the end of a bar crawl here in Santa Barbara and relocated here in 2010, just in time to watch our region’s craft brew scene explode.
For a number of primarily health-related reasons, Lloyd quit drinking alcohol in March 2021.
“At first, it felt like a loss,” he explained, “giving up the craft beer scene, all the good times checking out different breweries, tasting different beer styles, attending beer festivals and suchlike.”