Mcilhenney Brewing Co. in Alpine carries three generations of San Diego craft-beer heritage into an Alpine Boulevard taproom that reopened in 2021, building on a family brewing lineage dating to 1999 with World Beer Cup and Great American Beer Festival medals. The taproom pours 22 rotating handles dominated by hop-forward West Coast IPAs and double IPAs, a concentration of craft production that shares Alpine's corridor with the specialty-retail traffic generated by Barons Market Alpine on Tavern Road. Core releases include the Wild Child double IPA, the Wizard's Wand IPA, and the Muntz IPA, all brewed on a system visible through the taproom's open-floor layout that separates the stainless-steel brewhouse from the bar by a short walkway. The fill station crimps crowlers and fills growlers from the full 22-tap rotation, moving draft beer into take-home format for backyard events and private gatherings. The outdoor patio welcomes dogs and kids, and the crowler program supplies house-brewed IPAs and lagers for off-site events at ranch venues like Hazy Meadow Ranch on El Monte Road. The brewing system produces hop-forward IPAs using West Coast dry-hopping protocols with late-addition and fermenter-stage hopping, yielding the resinous, citrus-pine aromatic profile that earned the McIlhenney family name World Beer Cup and Great American Beer Festival recognition across multiple IPA and Irish Red categories.