Alpine Beer Company

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Alpine Beer Company
Alpinebeerco.jpg
LocationAlpine, California, USA
Opened2002
Key peoplePat Mcilhenney (founder)
Owned byGreen Flash Brewing Company
Websitealpinebeerco.com
Active beers
Name Type
Alpine Ale Pale Ale
Pure Hoppiness West Coast Double IPA
Mcilhenney Irish Red Irish Red
Captain Stout Chocolate Oatmeal Dry Stout
Mandarin Nectar Orange Blossom Honey Ale
Willy Vanilly American Wheat flavored with Vanilla
Willy American Wheat Ale
Seasonal beers
Name Type
Duet West Coast IPA
Nelson Golden Rye IPA
Exponential Hoppiness West Coast Triple IPA
O'Brien's IPA West Coast IPA
Ichabod Varietal Pumpkin Beer
Other beers
Name Type
Bad Boy West Coast IPA
Briscoe Belgian Lambic
Good American Barleywine-style Ale
Chez Monieux= Belgian Kriek
Great Whiskey barrel-aged Barleywine-style Ale
Achtung German Lager
Whale Wet Hop Ale
Achtung German Lager
Crazy Hazel American Amber Ale with Hazelnut meal
Emerson New Zealand Hopped Imperial Pilsner

Alpine Beer Company is an American brewery founded in 1999 by Pat McIlhenney in Alpine, California.[1] Alpine Beer Company produces a variety of beers, many of which have high alcohol content and are strongly hopped beers.[2] The beers have acquired a following due to the popularity of such beers as Pure Hoppiness and Exponential Hoppiness IPAs. Alpine Beer Company was ranked as the fifth best brewery in the US in 2006 by Beer Advocate.

Some Alpine sour beers have been mentioned in the Los Angeles Times as "part of a new wave of refreshing American sour beers".[3]

Alpine has won three Great American Beer Festival medals and eight World Beer Cup medals. In 2003, Alpine won the Bronze in the GABF for its Mandarin Nectar[4] and in 2004 won a silver for McIlhenney’s Irish Red.[5] It was also awarded a gold medal in the 2004 World Beer Cup[6] and a Silver in 2008 for McIlhenney’s Irish Red.[7] In 2016 Alpine was awarded the GABF bronze medal in the Strong Pale Ale category for their HFS IPA.[8]

Prior to founding its own brewery in 2002, Alpine Beer Company had been contracting brewing of its “McIlhenney’s Irish Red”, from AleSmith Brewing Company.

In November 2014, Alpine Beer Company was acquired by fellow San Diego brewery Green Flash Brewing Company.[9]

Beers[]

  • Pure Hoppiness 8% abv[2]
  • McIlhenney's Irish Red 6% abv[2]

Photo gallery[]

  • The Alpine Beer Company in Alpine, California

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ San Diego Union Tribune
  2. ^ a b c Hampson, Tim (2008). The Beer Book. London: Dorling Kindersley. p. 16. ISBN 978-1405333016.
  3. ^ "Sour beer? Pucker up". Los Angeles Times. July 1, 2009. Retrieved 2009-08-31.
  4. ^ 2003 Great American Beer Festival winners[permanent dead link]
  5. ^ 2004 Great American Beer Festival winners[permanent dead link]
  6. ^ 2004 World Beer Cup winners Archived 2006-04-26 at the Wayback Machine
  7. ^ 2008 World Beer Cup winners[permanent dead link]
  8. ^ 2016 Great American Beer Festival winners
  9. ^ Peter Rowe, "Green Flash acquires Alpine," San Diego Union-Tribune, November 10, 2014.

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Coordinates: 32°50′6.97″N 116°45′54.12″W / 32.8352694°N 116.7650333°W / 32.8352694; -116.7650333

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