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Good People Brewing Company

United States · Regional · Known for American Brown Ale · American IPAWebsite
Known for American Brown Ale · American IPA

Alabama's most beloved craft brewery, founded in 2008 in Birmingham's Loft District. Good People was one of the first craft breweries to open after Alabama lifted its ban on high-gravity beer in 2009. Their IPA became Alabama's defining craft beer — the pint that proved the Deep South could embrace hop-forward brewing.

3Beers
2Styles
7.4%Avg ABV
2008Founded

Beers by Good People Brewing Company

3 beers
Brewery DNA

The recurring character behind the beers

Good People Brewing Company brew across 2 style families.

Emerging signature · 3 beers
IPA 2Dark 1

Across these 3 beers, 4 notes keep showing up:

hoppy
2 of 3 beers
citrusy
2 of 3 beers
bitterevery beer
3 of 3 beers
malty
2 of 3 beers

With 3 beers, only recurring notes are shown — one unusual beer moves this a lot.

Compared with 352 other breweries brewing American IPA and Double IPA:

Three beers is enough for a first read, not a full house style — one unusual beer moves this a lot.

They stay close to the peer baseline on their recurring notes.

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 61%
average beer performance
0
beers in the Top 100
0 / 3
beers above the median
#3802
best ranked beer
Good People IPA

Their beers place in the Top 61% of the catalogue on average, across 3 ranked beers. One clear standout well ahead of the rest.

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About Good People Brewing Company

Alabama's most beloved craft brewery, founded in 2008 in Birmingham's Loft District. Good People was one of the first craft breweries to open after Alabama lifted its ban on high-gravity beer in 2009. Their IPA became Alabama's defining craft beer — the pint that proved the Deep South could embrace hop-forward brewing.

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Location
Birmingham · Alabama · United States
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