What beers does Alvarado Street Brewery make?

Alvarado Street Brewery makes 10 beers, including Cold Pressed, Howzit Punch, Land & Sea XPA.

Alvarado Street Brewery

🌍 United States · Regional · ★ Award winning · Known for a full range of styles

★ Award winningKnown for a full range of styles

Founded in 2014 by John and J.C. Hill in Monterey, California, Alvarado Street Brewery has grown to five locations across Monterey County. Their range spans hazy IPAs, West Coast IPAs, fruit-forward sours, pilsners, and pale ales. The brewery has earned 13 GABF medals and 2 World Beer Cup medals since opening.

10Beers

4Styles

6%Avg ABV

Consistency· share of beers above catalogue avg

90%

catalogue avg 43%

Beers by Alvarado Street Brewery

10 beers

Cold Pressed

Hazy IPA · 6.5%

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Howzit Punch

Fruited Sour Ale · 5.5%

Extra Pale Ale · 5%

Pale Ale · 6.5%

Light Lager · 4.2%

German Pilsner · 5.2%

Sour Ale · 8%

West Coast IPA · 6%

Hazy IPA · 7.2%

West Coast Pilsner · 5.8%

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Brewery DNA

The recurring character behind the beers

Drawn from all 10 beers in the catalogue.

Brewery signature · based on 10 beers

Signature

What keeps showing up across their beers.

citrusy

9 of 10 beers

tropical

7 of 10 beers

hoppy

8 of 10 beers

crisp

8 of 10 beers

Four notes carry across the range. That's a tight house style — most breweries in the catalogue share just one.

Portfolio range

How broad they brew.

Broad10 beers · 4 style families

IPA 3Lager 3Sour 2Pale Ale 2

Their signature has to hold across very different styles — which makes the notes that do recur more telling, not less.

What sets them apart

Each beer measured against others of its own style, then averaged across the range. Compared with the wider catalogue across breweries making similar styles.

typical for similar stylesAlvarado Street Brewery

in no beersin every beer

malty

in none of their beers · typical similar styles brewery: 2 in 5

Absent — the field expects it.

tropical

in 7 of 10 · typical similar styles brewery: 2 in 5

Notably more tropical than typical.

sweet

in 5 of 10 · typical similar styles brewery: 1 in 5

Notably more sweet than typical.

citrusy

in 9 of 10 · typical similar styles brewery: 3 in 5

Notably more citrusy than typical.

Brewery performance

How their beers place in the hopIQ ranking.

Top 30%

average beer performance

beers in the Top 100

9 / 10

beers above the median

#25

best ranked beer
Mai Tai P.A.

Their beers place in the Top 30% of the catalogue on average, across 10 ranked beers. Consistent rather than spiky — no single standout carrying the rest.