California – Beer Alien https://beeralien.com Interstellar Craft Beer News & Brewery Reviews Mon, 19 Oct 2026 21:07:48 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 https://beeralien.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/cropped-BA-32x32.jpg California – Beer Alien https://beeralien.com 32 32 Lost Coast Brewery Auction: Eureka’s 37-Year Brewery Sold Off in Lots https://beeralien.com/lost-coast-brewery-auction/ https://beeralien.com/lost-coast-brewery-auction/#respond Mon, 19 Oct 2026 21:07:48 +0000 https://beeralien.com/?p=54214 The Lost Coast Brewery auction closes Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2026, and with it a 37-year run in Eureka, California, ends in the most literal way an industry can manage: piece by piece. New Mill Capital, the asset disposition firm hired to sell the brewery, is running an online sale of the production, packaging and support...

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Lagunitas DogTown Pale Ale Returns in 12-Oz Cans at 6.2% https://beeralien.com/lagunitas-dogtown-pale-ale/ https://beeralien.com/lagunitas-dogtown-pale-ale/#respond Mon, 19 Oct 2026 15:39:48 +0000 https://beeralien.com/?p=54194 /// AN ARCHIVED DOG HAS BEEN SPOTTED OFF ITS LEASH; SPECIES: PALE ALE ; CONTAINER: 12-OUNCE ALUMINUM. /// Lagunitas DogTown Pale Ale is coming back. A label preview published Oct. 19, 2026, by MyBeerBuzz shows the Petaluma, California, brewery’s pale ale returning in 12-ounce cans for 2026 at 6.2% ABV. Plain-language disclaimer, because this correspondent...

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AleSmith Evil Dead Red Rises Again at 6.66% for Halloween https://beeralien.com/alesmith-evil-dead-red/ https://beeralien.com/alesmith-evil-dead-red/#respond Thu, 15 Oct 2026 21:43:26 +0000 https://beeralien.com/?p=54002 Earthlings, a blood-red specimen has risen again in Miramar, right on schedule at 6.66%. AleSmith Evil Dead Red, the San Diego brewery’s hoppy red ale, is back for the Halloween season: San Diego Beer News lists it in its Oct. 15 What’s Tapping column at AleSmith’s Miramar location. AleSmith Evil Dead Red by the numbers...

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California Craft Breweries Closing: Fewer Openings, Two North County Losses https://beeralien.com/california-craft-breweries-closing/ https://beeralien.com/california-craft-breweries-closing/#respond Thu, 15 Oct 2026 21:41:47 +0000 https://beeralien.com/?p=53996 Telemetry from the Golden State shows fewer new brewhouses lighting up, and two North County beacons going dark. The number of craft breweries in California fell 5% from 2023 to 2025, from 987 to 939, according to a CalMatters report published Oct. 15 by the Los Angeles Times. Behind the headlines about California craft breweries...

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Baja Breach IPA Leads Pure Project’s Triple Drop for Gray Whales https://beeralien.com/baja-breach-ipa/ https://beeralien.com/baja-breach-ipa/#respond Thu, 15 Oct 2026 15:22:42 +0000 https://beeralien.com/?p=53966 A whale-sized signal has surfaced off the San Diego coast. Pure Project’s Baja Breach IPA, a 7% West Coast IPA brewed with conservation group WILDCOAST, leads a three-beer release at Pure Project taprooms on Thursday, Oct. 15, alongside an autumn Vienna-style lager and Murkeley, a murky double IPA with Fieldwork Brewing, per the brewery’s website....

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North Park Beer Co Pulls a Dragon Heist and Writes an IPA Obituary https://beeralien.com/north-park-beer-co-dragons-doornail/ https://beeralien.com/north-park-beer-co-dragons-doornail/#respond Wed, 14 Oct 2026 22:38:03 +0000 https://beeralien.com/?p=53958 One heist, one funeral, zero actual casualties. North Park Beer Co. has released two new cans this week: Picking Dragons’ Pockets, an 8.2% triple dry-hopped hazy double IPA, and Dead as a Doornail, a 6.2% double dry-hopped West Coast IPA, both listed on the brewery’s online shop for pre-order. The San Diego brewery wrote one...

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Stone Founders Take Back the Escondido Bistro & Gardens https://beeralien.com/stone-founders-escondido-bistro/ https://beeralien.com/stone-founders-escondido-bistro/#respond Wed, 14 Oct 2026 19:19:22 +0000 https://beeralien.com/?p=53938 The architects have returned to the citadel, Earthlings. The Escondido mothership will not go dark. Stone co-founders Greg Koch and Steve Wagner announced on Oct. 14, 2026, that they are taking over the Stone Brewing Escondido bistro, officially Stone Brewing World Bistro & Gardens – Escondido, and will reopen it under a new name with...

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Sierra Nevada Celebration 2026 Ships for Its 45th Year https://beeralien.com/sierra-nevada-celebration-2026/ https://beeralien.com/sierra-nevada-celebration-2026/#respond Tue, 13 Oct 2026 21:39:07 +0000 https://beeralien.com/?p=53925 Harvest beacon detected out of Chico: Celebration season has entered the atmosphere. Sierra Nevada Celebration 2026, the 45th edition of the brewery’s winter Fresh Hop IPA, has begun shipping, and Earthlings should see it on shelves across the country through the second half of October, according to a Sierra Nevada press release published by New...

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Nickel Beer Green Truck: A Wet-Hop DIPA Brewed in a Father’s Memory https://beeralien.com/nickel-beer-green-truck/ https://beeralien.com/nickel-beer-green-truck/#respond Tue, 13 Oct 2026 21:37:45 +0000 https://beeralien.com/?p=53928 A green truck, an Amarillo harvest and a father’s favorite pint: a Julian transmission with heart. Nickel Beer Green Truck is the wet-hop double IPA that Tom Nickel calls his favorite brew day of the year, and on Oct. 12, 2026, San Diego Beer News published his homebrew recipe for it, along with a tribute...

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Dave McLean’s Excelsior Brewpub Targets November Opening in San Rafael https://beeralien.com/excelsior-brewpub-san-rafael/ https://beeralien.com/excelsior-brewpub-san-rafael/#respond Sun, 11 Oct 2026 21:21:54 +0000 https://beeralien.com/?p=53913 The Excelsior brewpub, the new project from Magnolia Brewing founder Dave McLean, is targeting a November opening at 1132 4th St. in San Rafael, Calif., in the former State Room Brewery space. What Now San Francisco reported the timing on Oct. 9, citing the San Francisco Chronicle’s roundup of anticipated Bay Area openings, which lists...

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Burgeon and WhiteFrontier Release Hop Suisse, a 6.9% DDH West Coast IPA https://beeralien.com/burgeon-whitefrontier-hop-suisse/ https://beeralien.com/burgeon-whitefrontier-hop-suisse/#respond Sun, 11 Oct 2026 21:13:48 +0000 https://beeralien.com/?p=53907 Hop Suisse is a 6.9% double dry-hopped West Coast IPA from Carlsbad’s Burgeon Beer Co., brewed in collaboration with WhiteFrontier, a brewery in Martigny, Switzerland. It came out Friday, Oct. 9, in 4-packs and on draft, alongside a new hazy IPA called Freaky Tiki, according to Burgeon’s release post. A San Diego County brewery and...

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GABF 2026 Winners: Craft Coast Leads San Diego’s 12-Medal Haul https://beeralien.com/gabf-2026-winners-san-diego/ https://beeralien.com/gabf-2026-winners-san-diego/#respond Sun, 11 Oct 2026 21:05:16 +0000 https://beeralien.com/?p=53896 The GABF 2026 winners are in, and San Diego County breweries took home 12 medals, seven of them gold, at the first outdoor Great American Beer Festival. Oceanside’s Craft Coast was named Brewery and Brewer of the Year in the 1,001-2,000 barrel size class, one of three California breweries to win that title. The Brewers...

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Escondido Social Taproom Moves Into Little Miss Brewing’s Old Space https://beeralien.com/escondido-social-taproom/ https://beeralien.com/escondido-social-taproom/#respond Sun, 11 Oct 2026 18:23:08 +0000 https://beeralien.com/?p=53852 Signal regained on Kalmia Street, Earthlings. Escondido Social Taproom, a taproom-only bar in the former Little Miss Brewing tasting room at 132 N. Kalmia St. in Escondido, was set to open Friday, Oct. 9, 2026. The venue’s website announces “Opening Friday, October 9th!!” and posts the hours below. The room went quiet in March 2025....

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Bottle Logic Joins The Bruery and Offshoot to Form The Bruery Group https://beeralien.com/bottle-logic-bruery-group/ https://beeralien.com/bottle-logic-bruery-group/#respond Sun, 11 Oct 2026 18:21:37 +0000 https://beeralien.com/?p=53861 Three Orange County beer entities that grew up 1.6 miles apart are moving in together. Bottle Logic Brewing of Anaheim is joining The Bruery and Offshoot Beer Co. in a new company called The Bruery Group, both breweries announced Monday, Sept. 28, 2026. The deal is expected to close later this year, and financial terms...

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The Lost Abbey Is Leaving Its Vista Brewery to ‘Grow Down’ Again https://beeralien.com/lost-abbey-leaving-vista/ https://beeralien.com/lost-abbey-leaving-vista/#respond Sun, 11 Oct 2026 18:19:53 +0000 https://beeralien.com/?p=53864 Most Earth businesses measure progress by getting bigger. Tomme Arthur keeps trying to make his smaller. Hence The Lost Abbey leaving Vista: the company will move out of its brewery at 1347 Keystone Way and into a smaller, more cost-effective home at the end of 2026, Arthur told San Diego Beer News in a story...

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