Ballast Point Brewing Company

Commercial Brewery in San Diego, California, United States 🇺🇸
Owned by King's & Convicts Brewing Company
Associated with 6 Venues

Established in 1996

Contact
9045 Carroll Way, San Diego, CA, 92121, United States
Subsidiaries
Ballast Point Brewing Company owns 1 brewery:
Description
We started out in 1996 as a small group of San Diego home brewers who simply wanted to make a better beer. In our exploration, we became obsessed with ingredients—tinkering, testing and tasting to find the perfect balance of taste and aroma. That adventurous spirit leads to award-winning beers in classic and unique styles while challenging our own tastes and expanding yours. We’re proud of our San Diego hometown, our employees, our beers, and our fans. We think of our employees as family, and you, our fans, as extended family. You’ll see us use #BPPROUD as a badge of pride and a way to further connect with our beer loving community.

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4.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5

Tap at Ballast Point Little Italy, San Diego, CA, USA. Pours dark blonde, towards amber, with fine white foam, limited. Aroma is dominated by watermelon, really unidimensional. Body is on the thick side, with average carbonation. Taste is rather bitter, but with watermelon dominating everything. Final is fairly bitter. Overall, awful!

Tried from Draft on 19 Nov 2023 at 05:25


6.2
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Tap at Ballast Point Little Italy, San Diego, CA, USA. Pours reddish gold, transparent, with fine white foam, limited. Aroma is resinous, toffee. Body and carbonation are average. Taste is bitter. Final is dry and still bitter.

Tried from Draft on 19 Nov 2023 at 04:36


6.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Tap at Ballast Point Little Italy, San Diego, CA, USA. Pours pale gold, still fairly brilliant, with fine white foam. Aroma is intensely herbal. Body and carbonation are average. Taste is medium bitter. Final is average.

Tried from Draft on 19 Nov 2023 at 04:08


6.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Tap at Ballast Point Little Italy, San Diego, CA, USA. Nitro version. Pours regular golden, brilliant and transparent, with very fine white foam. Aroma is nicely focused on coffee. Body is average, with basically no carbonation. Taste is quite roasty, the coffee being very evident. Final is average.

Tried from Draft on 19 Nov 2023 at 03:34


7.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Can picked up from Beer Republic webshop Breda Netherlands and consumed at home Saturday 11th November 2023 listening to Craig Charles Funk and Soul Show and still making the Beef Rogan Josh it's taking a little longer than expected, I made a Vanilla Ice Cream Loz, we're also making Onion Bhajis for the curry and Baked Apples to go with my Ice Cream. Pours deep gold with a large white head. Loz doesn't like this at all, she couldn't get on with it. This is clearly a West Coast IPA but the Grapefruit flavouring which I don't mind but Loz struggled with is a very divisive thing. I find this a touch sweet, a little bit of a perfume edge, dry finish, a slight syrupy touch, good beer.

Tried from Can on 11 Nov 2023 at 18:33


9.9
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 10 | Flavor - 10 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 9.5

Deep dark brown,colour, minimal creamy beige head; aroma of burnt plum jam, dried cherry, hot chocolate, cappuccino, brandy, red dessert wine and whisky notes; taste is the same with some burnt nutty notes; just simply amazing

Tried on 10 Nov 2023 at 21:58


7.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Clear dark golden colour, moderate sized creamy off-white head; aroma of piney, grapefruity, grassy, some orange peel oils and slight grape peel; taste is hop dominant with the same notes as can be felt in the aroma and some slight medicinal notes; good hoppy IPA

Tried from Can on 10 Nov 2023 at 05:43


8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Clear dark golden to amber colour, minimal off-white lacing; aroma of grainy, dried apricot, some orange peel and biscuity notes; taste is like an alcoholic apricot jam with definite amount of hops; I like it

Tried on 10 Nov 2023 at 05:29


7.2
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

(Bottle, vintage 2018) Reddish brown colour with frothy, beige head. Malty, fruity nose with dark bread, raisins, figs, plums, oak wood, whiskey and chocolate. Malty taste with notes of caramel, chocolate, dark bread, raisins, prunes, oak wood, whiskey and a mild spicy bitterness in the finish. More than medium body, with a certain sweetness. Tasty and well balanced, with a good oak character. Nice one.

Tried from Bottle on 04 Nov 2023 at 21:47


7.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Bottled. Golden colour with a big white head. Aroma is pine, resin, some caramel and mild toffee tones. Flavour is caramel, some biscuity tones with citrus, mild grapefruit as well as some slight pineapple tones. Refreshing ,and a nice bitter bite in the finish.

Tried from Bottle on 27 Oct 2023 at 15:46