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Evil Dead Red, Chimay and Halloween!
Greetings Beer Fans!  It was a great weekend of Harvest beers at the pub. The Wet Hop Festival featured a ton of great beers with not one, but many standouts. About 10 of the beers are still on tap, mostly beers that were in full kegs or that had been served on the jockey [...]
Wet Hop Beers Still Flowing!
Hello Beer Fans! The Wet Hop Festival was a great success! We had 24 beers total over the weekend and there were some truly great wet hopped ales. More of the Northern California beers showed up in full size kegs than I expected so we still have a lot of the wet hop beers on [...]
Wet Hop Festival Weekend!!!
Hello Hop Lovers! The Wet Hop Festival weekend is finally here! I am expecting 24 different wet hop beers from San Diego, Northern California and Oregon. We should have 22 different draft beers, 4 casks and even one bottled beer. The line up will include beers from Pizza Port Carlsbad and Solana Beach, Ballast Point, [...]
Wet Hop Festival This Weekend!
This weekend is our annual Wet Hop Beer Festival.  We will have over 20 beers on tap over the three days – Friday thru Sunday, October 24th to 26th. These beers are only brewed once a year at the time of the hop harvest. They use fresh, right off the vine hops that have not yet [...]
Expo, Wet Hops and Cheese!
Hello Beer Fans! I have a ton of great beer news for you this week. First I have to tell you about AleSmith being named the Small Brewing Company of the Year at the Great American Beer Festival! The brewery won four medals at the GABF. Also well represented was Pizza Port Carlsbad and brewer [...]
AleSmith Brewery of the Year at GABF!!!
Hello All, I just looked at the results for the Great American Beer Festival in Denver and San Diego has done it again. AleSmith won four medals and was named Small Brewing Company of the Year – the same award that Port Brewing/Lost Abbey won at the World Beer Cup earlier this year. Pizza Port [...]
World Cup Qualifying at the Pub!
Hello Football Fans!  The second international break is already here and there are plenty of great qualifiers on tv. The USA plays Saturday at 4 pm against Cuba at RFK and Wednesday at Trinidad and Tobago at 5 pm. Both games will be on with the sound up and the TNT game will be [...]
3 Cask Thursday!
If you have seen the updated On Tap List then you already know that we will be tapping 3 cask beers from Alpine this Thursday, October 9th. O’Brien’s IPA, Duet IPA and Pure Hoppiness will all be on cask at 5 pm pouring through three beer engines. The O’Brien’s and Duet are just 5 gallon [...]
Weekend Update
Hello All, Just a quick Saturday update. Tonight is our meet the brewer night with Martin and James from Brew Dog in Fraserburgh, Scotland. Their Paradox, which is a whiskey barrel aged Imperial Stout, is my new favorite beer. We’ll have four other beers from Brew Dog and Martin and James will be at the [...]
Casks, Brew Dog and Lost Abbey!
Hello Beer Fans! As you might expect from the month that spawned the world’s largest beer festival, October is full of good beer happenings here in San Diego. Of course the La Mesa and El Cajon Octoberfest celebrations will be going on this weekend with lots of German beer. But there will also be plenty [...]