Here’s your breaking beer news of the day….Ballast Point Brewing will bottle heir new Grunion Pale Ale. This San Diego Pale Ale will be packaged in 12oz bottles (and I suspect we’ll likely see cans as well) and the beer comes in at 5.5% ABV. 
There are many, many fans of our original Pale Ale (including us); it's the beer that built this brewery. But it's a Kolsch, a German style Pale Ale, and some of you like your pale ales a little hoppier.
So we said, let's make a hoppy pale ale. And we developed it the same way we developed Pale Ale...as a home brew recipe first. In 2013, we held an employee-only home brew contest for American Pale Ales, and the winning recipe from that competition has come to be known as...Grunion.
You're probably thinking, Grunion, that's a funny name. So did Jack when he first heard it..."sounds like gross onion," he said. But it's a southern California fish, and you've probably noticed we like to name our beers after those; plus, it's kinda fun to say. And, it's definitely fun to drink (doesn't taste at all like a gross onion).
A hoppy pale ale driven by Mosaic hops, Grunion has hit the ground (the beach?) running. It won a Gold medal at GABF this past fall, and starting next week, it'll be available in 6packs. It will be limited to our tasting rooms first starting Monday, and then in very limited quantities out at retail (SoCal only). So like the grunion runs themselves, you'll have to be in the right place at the right time to spot it.
If you want to chance to try Grunion first, we have it on draft in all of our tasting rooms, and it'll be one of the beers featured at our beer and chocolate event in Little Italy on Wednesday. You can get details and the full menu here.
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