Gordon Biersch Brewing Company
Gordon Biersch Brewing Company runs a production brewery and packaging plant in San Jose's Japantown, opened in 1997 to take the brand's German-style lagers into retail. The name goes back to a brewpub that Munich-trained engineer Dan Gordon and restaurateur Dean Biersch opened in Palo Alto in 1988. The restaurants were sold in 1999 and are a separate company today; in 2019 an investor group led by its co-founder regained majority control of the brewery, where most of the volume is contract work for other brands. All beers follow the Reinheitsgebot.
Beers by Gordon Biersch Brewing Company
4 beers
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The recurring character behind the beers
Gordon Biersch Brewing Company brew across 3 style families.
Across these 4 beers, 4 notes keep showing up:
With 4 beers, only recurring notes are shown — one unusual beer moves this a lot.
Compared with the wider catalogue of similar styles:
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.
Gordon Biersch Hazy Session IPA
Their beers place in the Top 71% of the catalogue on average, across 4 ranked beers. One clear standout well ahead of the rest.
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About Gordon Biersch Brewing Company
Gordon Biersch Brewing Company runs a production brewery and packaging plant in San Jose's Japantown, opened in 1997 to take the brand's German-style lagers into retail. The name goes back to a brewpub that Munich-trained engineer Dan Gordon and restaurateur Dean Biersch opened in Palo Alto in 1988. The restaurants were sold in 1999 and are a separate company today; in 2019 an investor group led by its co-founder regained majority control of the brewery, where most of the volume is contract work for other brands. All beers follow the Reinheitsgebot.
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