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
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.
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Draught. Poured a deep brown. Malt aromas. A very alcoholic beastly creature.
Tried
on 20 May 2025
at 00:56
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Draught from ginger manhattan. Think this is way better thabits rating indicates. A dry stout with serious character.
Tried
on 20 May 2025
at 00:55
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Draught from Blind Tiger. Poured a light brown with mild head. Nice aromas of hops toffee and such. Very good in the end.
Tried
on 20 May 2025
at 00:51
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
Draft at ginger man. It was a light brown. Sessionable. Nice maltiness and some hops.
Tried
from Draft
on 20 May 2025
at 00:51
6.9/10
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Appearance 2
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 5
Overall 8
Can. An unclear dark golden beer with a white head. The aroma has notes of over ripe fruits, lemons, pine needles, hops, malt, and a bit of caramel. The flavor is sweet with notes of over ripe fruit, lemons, spices, pine needles, hops, and malt, leading to a bitter finish. 8/1/8/3/16
Tried
from Can
on 09 May 2025
at 18:33
7/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 7
Old rating from 21-12-14 - 355ml bottle, pours red-brown with a off white good sized head. Aromas & tastes of caramel, banana, bread, grain, flora, hints of spices & malt. Medium body. Mildly bitter finish
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Apr 2025
at 11:57
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle (2017) at home. Opaque pitch black color, small off-white to beige head that diminishes quickly. Aroma is malts, chocolate is dominant up front, with cocoa powder and vanilla shortly thereafter. Flavor is malts, cocoa, vanilla, malt bitter. After that comes bourbon, liquor bitterness. Medium body, a bit thin texture but at the same time very oily, average to medium carbonation.
Tried
on 16 Apr 2025
at 20:41
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle. Very dark brown color. Not much head. Aroma is a chocolately, mocha smell with slight under tones of roasted grain. Taste is also chocolate and mocha and toasted but not burnt.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Mar 2025
at 04:33
6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle. Very dark brown almost black. Aroma was burnt toast and coffee. Taste was just way too bitter. Burnt grain bitter up front with a hoppy bitter finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Mar 2025
at 05:12
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Can. Golden Color with a three finger head. Aroma and taste is well balance for an above average brew.
Tried
from Can
on 21 Mar 2025
at 05:12