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Pizza Port Brewing Company

United States · Regional · ★ Award winning · Known for a full range of stylesWebsite
★ Award winningKnown for a full range of styles

Pizza Port began in March 1987, when siblings Gina and Vince Marsaglia bought a struggling pizza restaurant in Solana Beach, north of San Diego. Vince started home brewing in the storage room, and the first house beers went on tap in 1992. The business grew into a chain of brewpubs along the Southern California coast between San Clemente and the Mexican border, each with its own brewhouse and brewing team. Since 2013 the production brewery at Bressi Ranch in Carlsbad has packaged the core range for retail. The pubs have won more than 90 medals at the Great American Beer Festival.

16Beers
7Styles
6.6%Avg ABV
1987Founded
Consistency· share of beers above catalogue avg
13%
catalogue avg 11%

Beers by Pizza Port Brewing Company

16 beers
Amigo Lager
Amigo Lager
Mexican Lager · 5.0%
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Bacon and Eggs
Bacon and Eggs
Imperial Porter · 8.0%
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Dusk Til Dawn
Dusk Til Dawn
Imperial Porter · 10.5%
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Guillaume
Guillaume
Belgian Blonde Ale · 4.2%
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Jetty
Jetty
West Coast IPA · 7.2%
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Kook
Kook
Double IPA · 8.5%
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Mongo
Mongo
Double IPA · 8.0%
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Pier Bier
Pier Bier
Czech Pilsner · 4.0%
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Ponto
Ponto
Session IPA · 4.5%
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Swami's
Swami's
West Coast IPA · 6.8%
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Brewery DNA

The recurring character behind the beers

Pizza Port Brewing Company brew a broad range across 7 style families.

Signature · 16 beers
IPA 7Lager 2Porter 2Amber 2Pale Ale 1Belgian 1Stout 1

Across these 16 beers, 4 notes keep showing up:

citrusy
13 of 16 beers
dry
9 of 16 beers
hoppy
10 of 16 beers
malty
9 of 16 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 stylesPizza Port Brewing Company
in no beersin every beer
bready
in 7 of 16 · typical similar styles brewery: 1 in 5
Notably more bready than typical.
dry
in 9 of 16 · typical similar styles brewery: 2 in 5
Notably more dry 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 53%
average beer performance
2
beers in the Top 100
2 / 16
beers above the median
#21
best ranked beer
Guillaume

Their beers place in the Top 53% of the catalogue on average, across 16 ranked beers. Consistent rather than spiky — no single standout carrying the rest.

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About Pizza Port Brewing Company

Pizza Port began in March 1987, when siblings Gina and Vince Marsaglia bought a struggling pizza restaurant in Solana Beach, north of San Diego. Vince started home brewing in the storage room, and the first house beers went on tap in 1992. The business grew into a chain of brewpubs along the Southern California coast between San Clemente and the Mexican border, each with its own brewhouse and brewing team. Since 2013 the production brewery at Bressi Ranch in Carlsbad has packaged the core range for retail. The pubs have won more than 90 medals at the Great American Beer Festival.

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Location
Carlsbad · United States
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