Named for a local parakeet, the brewery’s color palate is as neon-bright as its juicy-hopped flavor profiles. Many of its beer names end in exclamation points. Its cofounder and head brewer, Evan Price, laughs, smiles, and jokes frequently. These are all true facts that fit together neatly. Green Cheek is a brewery that belongs in its sunny place—the City of Orange, California, near Anaheim and Disneyland.
If the brewery didn’t exist, someone would need to invent it—but it wouldn’t need to be nearly as good as it is.
Founded in June 2017, Green Cheek is better known among fellow brewers than among drinkers beyond the brewery’s radius. Price’s reputation is for hop-wizardry and sterling IPAs, but also for a surprising streak of competitiveness when it comes to the big beer events.