Pizza Port
{{Short description|American brewpub}}
{{Update|date=March 2025}}
{{Infobox Brewery
| name = Pizza Port Brewing Company
| image =
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| location = Southern California
| owner = Vince and Gina Marsaglia
| opened = March 1987
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{{brewbox_beer | name=Pier Rat Porter | style=Robust Porter}}
{{brewbox_beer | name=Reed's Wee Heavy | style=Scotch Ale}}
{{brewbox_beer | name=Port Truck Stout | style=Classic Irish-Style Dry Stout}}
{{brewbox_beer | name=Shark Attack | style=Imperial Red Ale}}
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Pizza Port Brewing Company is a brewpub with eight locations in Southern California. A former Pizza Port location in San Marcos spun out of Pizza Port in 2006 and is now an independent operation, the Port Brewing Company / Lost Abbey brewery.
History
Pizza Port was established in March 1987 when it made pizza only in Solana Beach. They installed a seven-barrel brewery and served their first handcrafted beer brewed on the premises in October 1992, becoming part of the "second wave" of craft breweries that led San Diego County to prominence in the craft brewing industry. Even before that, the restaurant's guest taps featuring local home-brewed beer were "hugely influential" in the development of San Diego's brewing culture.{{cite web |last=Elder |first=Adam |date=March 2010 |title=San Diego: America's Beer Capital |url=http://www.sandiegomagazine.com/San-Diego-Magazine/March-2010/San-Diego-Americas-Beer-Capital/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141103025841/http://www.sandiegomagazine.com/San-Diego-Magazine/March-2010/San-Diego-Americas-Beer-Capital/ |archive-date=November 3, 2014 |accessdate=18 June 2013 |work=San Diego Magazine}}
Awards
The Solana Beach location was named Small Brewpub of the Year in both 2003 and 2004 by the Great American Beer Festival. In 2006, it was named one of the "Top 50 Places to Have a Beer in America" by beeradvocate.com.{{cite web|title=10 events that rocked our beer mugs, 1996-2006|url=http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/features/20070117-9999-lz1c17events.html|work=San Diego Union Tribune|date=2007-01-17}} They have won over 100 GABF medals in total, and most of any craft brewery in History.{{Cite web|url=https://www.greatamericanbeerfestival.com/the-competition/winners/|title = Here are your Great American Beer Festival Competition Winners!}} The brews have won several prizes at the World Beer Cup, including 5 gold medals.{{cite web|url=http://www.beertown.org/events/wbc/winners_list/winners_2006.html |title=World Beer Cup - Winners lists |accessdate=2007-04-12 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060427143939/http://www.beertown.org/events/wbc/winners_list/winners_2006.html |archivedate=April 27, 2006 }} In 2010, the Pizza Port family of breweries won 6 awards for its beers at the World Beer Cup,{{cite web|url=http://www.worldbeercup.org/winners.html|title=World Beer Cup - 2010 Winners|accessdate=2010-05-04|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100514081402/http://www.worldbeercup.org/winners.html|archivedate=2010-05-14}} and in 2012 they won 5 more.{{cite news|url=http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2012/may/06/world-beer-cup-stresses-its-international-scope-wh/|title=Local brewers take 16 medals in World Beer Cup|last=Rowe|first=Peter|date=May 6, 2012|work=San Diego Union Tribune|accessdate=22 June 2013}} In 2009, 2010 and 2011, Pizza Port Carlsbad was named Large Brewpub of the Year at the Great American Beer Festival.{{cite news|url=http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2011/dec/06/pizza-port-loses-award-winning-top-brewer/|title=Pizza Port loses award-winning top brewer|last=Rowe|first=Peter|date=December 6, 2011|work=San Diego Union Tribune|accessdate=22 June 2013}}
At the 2024 World Beer Cup, two of its beers won **gold medals:
- Junk In Da Trunkel Dunkel (Pizza Port Ocean Beach) – Gold in the *South German-Style Dunkel Weizen* category.
- 24th Annual Strong Ale Festival Blend (Pizza Port Carlsbad) – Gold in the Wood- and Barrel-Aged Beer* category.{{cite web |title=2024 Winners |url=https://www.worldbeercup.org/winners/current-winners/ |website=World Beer Cup |publisher=Brewers Association |access-date=2025-03-10}}
Gallery
{{gallery|height=175|width=200|Image:Pizza Port Carlsbad.jpg|Restaurant in Carlsbad.
|Image:Pizza Port Carlsbad 2.jpg|Bottle shop in Carlsbad.
|File:PizzaPortOB.jpg|The Ocean Beach location opened in 2010
}}
See also
References
External links
- {{Official website|http://www.pizzaport.com}}
Category:Beer brewing companies based in San Diego County, California