Alpine Beer Company

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. 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.

Alpine Beer Company

Location	Alpine, California, USA
Opened	2002
Key people	Pat Mcilhenney (founder)
Owned by	Green Flash Brewing Company
Website	alpinebeerco.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

Some Alpine sour beers have been mentioned in the Los Angeles Times as "part of a new wave of refreshing American sour beers".[2]

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[3] and in 2004 won a silver for McIlhenney’s Irish Red.[4] It was also awarded a Gold medal in the 2004 World Beer Cup[5] and a Silver in 2008 for McIlhenney’s Irish Red.[6] In 2016 Alpine was awarded the GABF bronze medal in the Strong Pale Ale category for their HFS IPA.[7]

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.[8]