1849 Brewing Company
Grass Valley, California, USA
Tally's Take
Why this matters
California Pass 187. Official current site calls 1849 Grass Valley's microbrewery; 2026 event calendar confirms active operation.
The Beer Library
Beers
1849 House Ale
Year-RoundHouse Ale
California Pass 187. Aliases: https://www.1849brewingco.com/beers. Official beer page; 35 IBU. Page notes some options are seasonal/rotate periodically.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Lola Lager
Year-RoundGerman Pilsner
California Pass 187. Aliases: https://www.1849brewingco.com/beers. Official beer page; 35 IBU; brewery describes it as a classic German Pilsner.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →530 Blonde Ale
Year-RoundBlonde Ale
California Pass 187. Aliases: https://www.1849brewingco.com/beers. Official beer page; 24 IBU.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Empire Lager
Year-RoundLager
California Pass 187. Aliases: https://www.1849brewingco.com/beers. Official beer page; 20 IBU.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Del Oro Lager
Year-RoundLager
California Pass 187. Aliases: https://www.1849brewingco.com/beers. Official beer page; 25 IBU.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Home Grown IPA
Year-RoundWest Coast IPA
California Pass 187. Aliases: https://www.1849brewingco.com/beers. Official beer page; 65 IBU; brewery calls it its classic West Coast IPA.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Tangled up in Haze
Year-RoundHazy IPA
California Pass 187. Aliases: https://www.1849brewingco.com/beers. Official beer page; 26 IBU.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Dark Side of the Moon
Year-RoundDark German Lager
California Pass 187. Aliases: https://www.1849brewingco.com/beers. Official beer page; 22 IBU.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Full Steam Ahead
Year-RoundCalifornia Common / Steam Beer
California Pass 187. Aliases: https://www.1849brewingco.com/beers. Official beer page; 50 IBU; brewery explicitly describes traditional steam beer / California Common style.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Gravity is Real (on Nitro)
Year-RoundForeign Extra Stout
California Pass 187. Aliases: https://www.1849brewingco.com/beers. Official beer page; 35 IBU; served on nitro.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Electric Kool-Aid
Year-RoundImperial IPA
California Pass 187. Aliases: https://www.1849brewingco.com/beers. Official beer page; 85 IBU.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Vienna Red Lager
Year-RoundVienna Lager
California Pass 187. Aliases: https://www.1849brewingco.com/beers. Official beer page; 22 IBU.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Under an Orange Sky
Year-RoundBavarian Hefeweizen
California Pass 187. Aliases: https://www.1849brewingco.com/beers. Official beer page; 15 IBU; unfiltered Bavarian-style wheat beer.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →River Sesh IPA
Year-RoundSession IPA
California Pass 187. Aliases: https://www.1849brewingco.com/beers. Official beer page; 40 IBU.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Scotch Ale
Year-RoundScotch Ale
California Pass 187. Aliases: https://www.1849brewingco.com/beers. Official beer page; 20 IBU.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Fruten Tag
Year-RoundFruited Berliner Weisse
California Pass 187. Aliases: https://www.1849brewingco.com/beers. Official beer page; 5 IBU; rotating fruit flavors such as apricot, boysenberry and black currant.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Show your working
Sources
- recordProbable
Brewery record taken from Tally's California master, Pass 187, which cited https://www.1849brewingco.com/ for this entry. The cited page has not been opened by the archive.
Tally's California master, Pass 187 (research workbook) · Tally's Beer Universe research workbook · 2026
CommercialMedium reliabilityAccessed 2026-08-19Reviewed 2026-08-19
Only the claims above are sourced. Everything else on this page is the archive's own research and has not yet been tied to a document — which is worth knowing rather than hiding.
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