Ogopogo Brewing

Microbrewery in San Gabriel, California, United States 🇺🇸

Established in 2018

Contact
864 Commercial Ave, San Gabriel, CA, 91776, United States
Description
Founded in 2018, Ogopogo Brewing is San Gabriel’s first craft brewery. Brewer-Owners Jason De La Torre and Ryan Edell are veterans of the Southern California brewing industry (Mason Aleworks, Saint Archer, Golden Road), and have a fondness for folklore, mythology, and palindromes. The beers are named for legendary creatures and figures from around the world, with the style of beer and/or ingredients used often linked through the country of origin. In their first year of operations, they were awarded a silver medal in the Belgian Witbier category at the 2019 Great American Beer Festival for Boeman Belgian White Ale and received the same medal again in 2020.

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7.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 5 | Overall - 8

Can at BeerDock tasting. Strong toasted coconut aroma. Taste of toasted coconut, vanilla, roastyness, nutty notes, medium bitter. Medium body, malty coconut roasty bitter finish. Ok.

Tried from Can on 19 Nov 2025 at 18:59


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5.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5

0.473l can from Beer Republic. Aroma of berries, toasted coconut, vanilla and biscuit. Pours clear indigo color with thin quickly diminishing light violet head and average sparkling appearance. Taste starts with mild coconut, sweet potato and biscuit, following is mild fruity and malty, while finish is average bitter. Medium body, slick texture and average carbonation in palate. Holy potato… Smells nice, you have to look twice, but tastes almost like rice…

Tried from Can from Beer Republic on 05 Oct 2025 at 11:13


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8.3
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9

Poured up on tap at Tipsy Cactus where it exhibits a near clear golden body that supports a thin white head. The aroma offers up a blend of tangerine, mango, lime and grapefruit. The taste delivers a fun mix of bitter citrus and some juicy nectarine and vaguely mango. The bitterness brings up notes of grapefruit, lemon and a bit of lime. Beneath the hops are thim murmurs of sweet biscuit to faintly cracker malts. Overall this remains fairly crisp with enough depth to hold it together.

Tried from Draft at Tipsy Cactus TapRoom & Bottle Shop on 30 Sep 2025 at 22:37


7

Tried from Can on 24 Jul 2025 at 14:09


6.4
Appearance - 5 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

473ml can. Cloudy, yellow-ish, golden colour with small to average, frothy, fading, white head. Sweet-ish, wheaty malty, slightly spicy and zesty, citrusy fruity aroma, hints of banana, orange, orange peel, some coriander. Taste is minimally dry, spicy, slightly bready, wheaty malty basis with low residual sweetness, mildly bitter, zesty, citrusy fruity hints of orange, orange peel, some coriander, banana.
Watery texture, minimally dry palate, medium, prickly carbonation.
A tad too bready, not overly refreshing - acceptable .

Tried from Can from Beer Republic on 26 Jun 2025 at 23:27


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

Nice juicy hop character light fairly simple and turbid but balanced . Good

Tried on 10 Jun 2025 at 13:31


7.9
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8.5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Dark brown color. Dark brown head. Nice mochachino, dark chocolate, dark cherries, hazelnuts. Medium bitterness and medium roastiness. Super good depth. Excellent.

Tried on 21 Jun 2024 at 08:04


6.5
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Draft. Murky golden beer with an off-white head. Tropical fruit aroma. Tropical fruit and summer fruit flavor. Medium bodied. Good bitterness. Tropical fruit and summer fruit linger.

Tried from Draft on 16 Nov 2023 at 16:42


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

Draft. Golden beer with a whitish head. Spice and wheat aroma. Spice and wheat flavor with light citrus and light tropical fruit. Medium bodied. Spice and wheat linger with light citrus and light tropical fruit.

Tried from Draft on 26 Oct 2023 at 20:37


6.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Draft. Golden beer with a cream head. Tropical fruit aroma. Tropical fruit and summer fruit flavor with light lime. Medium bodied. Good bitterness. Tropical fruit and summer fruit linger with light lime and earth.

Tried from Draft on 15 Sep 2023 at 22:39


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