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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 46%

Beers by Alvarado Street Brewery

10 beers
Howzit Punch
Howzit Punch
Fruited Sour Ale · 5.5%
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Land & Sea XPA
Land & Sea XPA
Extra Pale Ale · 5%
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PILS
PILS
German Pilsner · 5.2%
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Pool Service
Pool Service
West Coast IPA · 6%
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Timbo Pils
Timbo Pils
West Coast Pilsner · 5.8%
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Brewery DNA

The recurring character behind the beers

Alvarado Street Brewery brew a broad range across 4 style families.

Signature · 10 beers
IPA 3Lager 3Sour 2Pale Ale 2

Across these 10 beers, 4 notes keep showing up:

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.

Compared with the wider catalogue of 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.
sweet
in 5 of 10 · typical similar styles brewery: 1 in 5
Notably more sweet than typical.
tropical
in 7 of 10 · typical similar styles brewery: 2 in 5
Notably more tropical than typical.
How we measure this

Two thresholds are at work here:

  • The signature list shows notes that recur in at least 6% of this brewery's beers. A low bar — enough to flag a pattern, not high enough to call it an exclusive trait.
  • The peer comparison below shows only notes where this brewery's coverage differs from similar breweries by at least 20 percentage points. A higher bar — enough to call a real difference, not a nudge.

A note can appear on the signature list without appearing in the peer comparison: it recurs here, but similar breweries do the same thing.

Brewery performance
How their beers place in the hopIQ ranking.
Top 32%
average beer performance
1
beers in the Top 100
9 / 10
beers above the median
#55
best ranked beer
Mai Tai P.A.

Their beers place in the Top 32% of the catalogue on average, across 10 ranked beers. Consistent rather than spiky — no single standout carrying the rest.

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About Alvarado Street Brewery

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.

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Location
Salinas · California · United States
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