The Bruery
The Bruery was founded in 2008 by Patrick Rue in Placentia, Orange County; the name joins the word brewery with the family name Rue. The house brews barrel-aged imperial stouts, Belgian-inspired ales and sour beers, most of them fermented with its own Belgian yeast strain and sold through member societies and a direct shop. Since 2017 a private equity firm holds the majority. Sour beers once came from the Bruery Terreux site in Anaheim, hoppy canned beers run under the Offshoot label, and a second tasting room operates in Meridian, Idaho.
Beers by The Bruery
15 beers
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The recurring character behind the beers
The Bruery brew a broad range across 7 style families.
Across these 15 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.
Mischief
Their beers place in the Top 48% of the catalogue on average, across 15 ranked beers. One clear standout well ahead of the rest.
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About The Bruery
The Bruery was founded in 2008 by Patrick Rue in Placentia, Orange County; the name joins the word brewery with the family name Rue. The house brews barrel-aged imperial stouts, Belgian-inspired ales and sour beers, most of them fermented with its own Belgian yeast strain and sold through member societies and a direct shop. Since 2017 a private equity firm holds the majority. Sour beers once came from the Bruery Terreux site in Anaheim, hoppy canned beers run under the Offshoot label, and a second tasting room operates in Meridian, Idaho.
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