Ballast Point Brewing
Founded in 1996 at the Home Brew Mart in San Diego. Rose to fame on the strength of Sculpin IPA, briefly sold to Constellation Brands for $1 billion in 2015 — the craft industry's largest-ever acquisition. Contract-brewed since 2024 after closing its own brewery. The Sculpin series remains iconic.
Beers by Ballast Point Brewing
3 beers
The recurring character behind the beers
Ballast Point Brewing brew across 2 style families.
Across these 3 beers, 4 notes keep showing up:
With 3 beers, only recurring notes are shown — one unusual beer moves this a lot.
Compared with 342 other breweries brewing Fruited IPA, American IPA and Porter:
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.
Ballast Point Grapefruit Sculpin
Their beers place in the Top 81% of the catalogue on average, across 3 ranked beers. One clear standout well ahead of the rest.
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About Ballast Point Brewing
Founded in 1996 at the Home Brew Mart in San Diego. Rose to fame on the strength of Sculpin IPA, briefly sold to Constellation Brands for $1 billion in 2015 — the craft industry's largest-ever acquisition. Contract-brewed since 2024 after closing its own brewery. The Sculpin series remains iconic.
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