Waganupa Brewing
Lake Almanor / Chester, California, USA · Est. 2015
Tally's Take
Why this matters
California Pass 187. Official 2026 site states Waganupa Brewing was established in 2015, makes small-batch artisanal beer in the Chester/Lake Almanor area, and is currently under owner Scotty Outland. The current first-party beer page provides a broad named beer list; hard seltzer is excluded from beer counts.
The Beer Library
Beers
Fog Hat
Year-RoundHazy IPA
California Pass 187. Aliases: https://www.waganupabrewing.com/beer. Official page identifies Fog Hat as Waganupa's best-selling hazy-style IPA; ABV not stated.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Crazy Blonde
Year-RoundBlonde Ale
California Pass 187. Aliases: Crazy Blonde aka...loco. Current first-party beer page.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Alice’s Amber
Year-RoundRye IPA / Amber
California Pass 187. Aliases: Alice's Amber. Official page calls it an accidental amber from a rye IPA recipe.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Swheat Dreams
Year-RoundUnfiltered White Wheat Beer
California Pass 187. Aliases: https://www.waganupabrewing.com/beer. Current first-party beer page.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Coppervale Light
Year-RoundCream Ale
California Pass 187. Aliases: https://www.waganupabrewing.com/beer. Official page describes a mellow cream ale; ABV not stated.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →ISHI’s IPA
Year-RoundIPA
California Pass 187. Aliases: Ishi's IPA. Current first-party beer page; exact ABV not stated.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Ishi II Extra Haze
Year-RoundHazy IPA
California Pass 187. Aliases: https://www.waganupabrewing.com/beer. Current first-party beer page.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Pat’s Pilsner
Year-RoundPilsner
California Pass 187. Aliases: Pat's Pilsner. Current first-party beer page.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →10# Brown
Year-RoundAmerican Stout / Milk Stout
California Pass 187. Aliases: 10# Brown. Official page describes it as a Lake Almanor original with lactose and stout character.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Sugar Pine Barleywine
Year-RoundEnglish Barleywine
California Pass 187. Aliases: https://www.waganupabrewing.com/beer. First-party page describes it as a rare-release English-style barleywine.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Saison
Year-RoundSaison
California Pass 187. Aliases: https://www.waganupabrewing.com/beer. Official beer page lists Saison but currently provides no description or ABV.
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.waganupabrewing.com/about 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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