Alpine Beer Company
Location	San Diego, California, USA
Owner(s)	Pat McIlhenney (independent)
Year opened	2002
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. The beers have acquired following due to popularity of Pure Hoppiness and Exponential Hoppiness IPAs. Alpine Beer Company was ranked as the fifth best brewery in the US in 2006 by Beer Advocate

I has been advertised in publications such as the Milwaukee Sentinel,^[2], and was described in the New York Times as "part of a new wave of refreshing American sour beers"^[3]

Alpine has won two Great American Beer Festival medals and two 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]

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

[edit] See also

• California breweries

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[edit] External links

• Alpine Beer Company
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