Archive record · Brewery
Kern River Brewing Company
Kernville, California, California, USA
- Founded
- 2003
- Archive ID
- TB-SCGGYYKV
- Last checked
- Not yet checked
Who owns this brewery?
Independent ownership is recorded. No parent company is held in the archive.
From the record
Summary
A small brewery in the Sierra Nevada foothills whose Citra Double IPA became one of the most sought-after West Coast double IPAs of its era. Official current site calls KRBC Kernville's only brewpub, shows current beer releases and says the company is 100% employee-owned. Institutional source supports 2005 founding.
A summary written during research. The sourced facts are in the sections below.
Tally’s Take
Kernville has under two thousand residents and produced a double IPA people drove hours into the mountains to buy. Single-hop showcases were rare in 2003; this was one of the beers that proved the idea.
Where it brewed
- 13415 Sierra Way, Kernville, CA 93238Kernville, California
PRODUCTION
Operated by Kern River Brewing Company
Site detail
Official current site calls KRBC Kernville's only brewpub, shows current beer releases and says the company is 100% employee-owned. Institutional source supports 2005 founding.
The Beer Library
Beers
Citra
LimitedDouble IPA
A single-hop Citra double IPA from a Sierra Nevada town of under two thousand people, and one of the beers that made single-hop releases a serious idea.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Just Outstanding IPA
Year-RoundIndia Pale Ale
Aliases: https://www.kernriverbrewing.com/product-page/just-outstanding-ipa. Official current product page; named after a local mountain bike trail.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Kern Lite
Year-RoundAmerican-Style Lager
Aliases: https://www.kernriverbrewing.com/shop. Official current shop listing; ABV not taken from secondary tap-list data.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Isabella Blonde Ale
Year-RoundBlonde Ale
Aliases: https://www.kernriverbrewing.com/shop. Official current shop listing.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →River Buddy Pale Ale
Year-RoundPale Ale
Aliases: https://www.kernriverbrewing.com/shop. Official current shop listing.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Lhazy River
Year-RoundHazy IPA
Aliases: https://www.kernriverbrewing.com/shop. Official current shop listing.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Chuuurch!
Year-RoundWest Coast IPA
Aliases: https://www.kernriverbrewing.com/shop. Official current shop listing.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Dirty Hippie
Year-RoundImperial Red Ale
Aliases: https://www.kernriverbrewing.com/shop. Official current shop listing.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Sequoia Red Ale
Year-RoundRed Ale
Aliases: https://www.kernriverbrewing.com/shop. Official current shop listing.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Class V Stout
Year-RoundStout
Aliases: https://www.kernriverbrewing.com/shop-1. Official brewery shop listing.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Brown Claw
Year-RoundBrown Porter
Aliases: https://www.greatamericanbeerfestival.com/2025-winners/. 2025 GABF Silver.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →On the record
Awards
- 2025
Silver — Brown Porter
Great American Beer Festival
- 2025
Brown Porter — Brown Claw
Great American Beer Festival
Only awards we could attribute to a named body and year appear here. An empty section means unresearched, not unawarded.
1 organisations
Connected suppliers & bodies
- great american beer festivalAwarded2025Silver — Brown Porter
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Sources
- recordProbable
Brewery record taken from Tally's California master, Pass 187, which cited http://www.kernriverbrewingcompany.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 reliabilitySource accessed 2026-08-19Claim last checked 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.
Straight answers
Common questions about Kern River Brewing Company
- Who owns Kern River Brewing Company?
- Kern River Brewing Company is independently owned — there is no parent company above it on record. It is based in Kernville, California, USA.
- Is Kern River Brewing Company independent?
- Yes. Kern River Brewing Company is recorded as independent, with no parent company. Independence is recorded as the brewery states it; where a stake is a minority holding or joint venture, this archive leaves it unmapped rather than calling it ownership.
- When was Kern River Brewing Company founded?
- Kern River Brewing Company was founded in 2003 in Kernville, California, USA.
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