San Diego craft breweries are on a roll when it comes to getting recognized for excellence.
Soon afer taking home seven gold medals at the Brewers Cup Of California. five earned silver and bronze at the 2025 World Beer Cup, the largest international beer competition that often referred to as The Olympics of Beer Competitions. Eight medals overall were awarded to breweries in the region, including a bronze for a brewery in neighboring Tijuana.
Held during BrewExpo America as part of the Craft Brewers Conference, the event featured 8,375 beers from 1,761 breweries spanning 49 countries.
“Some categories had more than 100 entries, and a few even had more than 200. The World Beer Cup is highly competitive year in and year out, and San Diego will keep bringing its best year in and year out,” said San Diego Brewers Guild Executive Director Erik Fowler.
The top winner was Carlsbad-based Pizza Port Brewing Company, which won three medals at the award ceremony held in Indianapolis. Pizza Port’s Imperial Beach brewery won silver for “Schwarzbier” in the German-Style Schwarzbier category, its Solana Beach brewery won silver for “Oscar Wanted a Brown Ale” in the English-Style Brown Ale category, and its Ocean Beach brewery took home bronze for “Junk In Da Trunkel Dunkel” in the South German-Style Dunkel Weizen category.
Here are the San Diego medal-winning beers and breweries:
SILVER (3)
Brewery, Beer, Category
Craft Coast Brewery & Tacos San Marcos XPA Australia-Style Pale Ale
Pizza Port Brewing Co. Imperial Beach Schwarzbier German-Style Schwarzbier
Pizza Port Brewing Co. Solana Beach Oscar Wanted a Brown Ale English-Style Brown Ale
BRONZE (5)
Brewery, Beer, Category
Coronado Brewing Company Guava Hard Cider Fruited Cider
Insurgente (Tijuana) Dragula Oatmeal Stout
North Park Beer Company House of Fu! Imperial IPA
Pizza Port Brewing Co. Ocean Beach Junk In Da Trunkel Dunkel South German-Style Dunkel Weizen
Taproom Beer Company (North Park) Modern Love New Zealand-style IPA
Pizza Port’s “Junk In Da Trunkel Dunkel” also won a gold medal at the 2024 World Beer Cup, while Craft Coast Beer & Tacos’ “XPA” won bronze at the 2024 competition.
The full list of winners can be found at https://www.worldbeercup.org/winners/current-winners/.
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