Monkish Brewing Co.
Monkish Brewing Co. was founded in 2012 by Henry and Adriana Nguyen in Torrance, California, with an original focus on Belgian-style ales — a passion Henry developed while earning a PhD in New Testament Theology at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland. In April 2016, the brewery released its first IPA in collaboration with New York's Other Half Brewing, which sold out in under an hour and launched Monkish's rise as a New England IPA powerhouse. The brewery quickly became recognized as the first West Coast brewery to fully dial in the hazy New England IPA style. Monkish operates its World HQ taproom at its South Bay location on Western Avenue in Torrance.
Beers by Monkish Brewing Co.
5 beers
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The recurring character behind the beers
Monkish Brewing Co. brew a broad range across 4 style families.
Across these 5 beers, 4 notes keep showing up:
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:
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.
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Their beers place in the Top 47% of the catalogue on average, across 5 ranked beers. One clear standout well ahead of the rest.
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About Monkish Brewing Co.
Monkish Brewing Co. was founded in 2012 by Henry and Adriana Nguyen in Torrance, California, with an original focus on Belgian-style ales — a passion Henry developed while earning a PhD in New Testament Theology at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland. In April 2016, the brewery released its first IPA in collaboration with New York's Other Half Brewing, which sold out in under an hour and launched Monkish's rise as a New England IPA powerhouse. The brewery quickly became recognized as the first West Coast brewery to fully dial in the hazy New England IPA style. Monkish operates its World HQ taproom at its South Bay location on Western Avenue in Torrance.
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