The Brewing Lair
Blairsden, California, USA
Tally's Take
Why this matters
California Pass 187. Official 2026 site confirms an active brewery on 15 forested acres in Blairsden, with current seasonal hours and a rotating house-ale programme. The official ales page provides recurring and seasonal beers; exact founding year and founders are left for later source reconciliation.
The Beer Library
Beers
Ambush IPA
Year-RoundWest Coast IPA
California Pass 187. Aliases: https://www.thebrewinglair.com/our-ales.html. Official ales page calls Ambush IPA the brewery's most popular beer.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Brewing Lair Tripel (BLT)
Year-RoundBelgian Tripel
California Pass 187. Aliases: BLT. Current official seasonal ales page.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Dope is King Pale Ale
Year-RoundPale Ale
California Pass 187. Aliases: https://www.thebrewinglair.com/our-ales.html. Official ales page documents beer and mining/ski-resin name origin.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Blair Belgian Blonde Ale
Year-RoundBelgian Blonde Ale
California Pass 187. Aliases: https://www.thebrewinglair.com/our-ales.html. Current official seasonal ales page.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Simcoe Solo
Year-RoundSingle-hop Blonde Ale
California Pass 187. Aliases: https://www.thebrewinglair.com/our-ales.html. Official Solo Series listing.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Citra Solo
Year-RoundSingle-hop Blonde Ale
California Pass 187. Aliases: https://www.thebrewinglair.com/our-ales.html. Official Solo Series listing.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Equinox Solo
Year-RoundSingle-hop Blonde Ale
California Pass 187. Aliases: https://www.thebrewinglair.com/our-ales.html. Official Solo Series listing.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Mosaic Solo
Year-RoundSingle-hop Blonde Ale
California Pass 187. Aliases: https://www.thebrewinglair.com/our-ales.html. Official Solo Series listing.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Uncle Elliott’s IPA
Year-RoundIPA
California Pass 187. Aliases: Uncle Elliott's IPA. Current official seasonal ales page.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Acclimation Sour Ale
Year-RoundKettle Sour Ale
California Pass 187. Aliases: https://www.thebrewinglair.com/our-ales.html. Current official seasonal ales page.
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.thebrewinglair.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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