O'Brien's Pub – San Diego, CA

Hello Beer Fans! It has been a little while since our last email – I managed to break a bone in my hand playing goalie in a soccer game.  So my typing skills have been greatly diminished, but the good beer news must flow, so here we go… This Weekend We will be tapping a [...]

Hello Beer Fans! As you might expect, there is just a ton of good beer info to tell you about.  And news came out this week that craft beer in San Diego has a bigger economic impact than Comic-Con.  You can read all about it here: http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2013/apr/24/tp-san-diego-beer-industry-study/.  I’ve got news on festivals, a Pro-Am competition, [...]

Hello Beer Fans, We have some wonderful Firestone beers on tap right now including Velvet Merlin, 100% Oak Fermented Double Barrel Ale, Pivo Pilsner and the fantastically dark and hoppy Wookey Jack.  We’ll have a few special treats to tap on Friday too.  Tomorrow we have a very different version of Sculpin IPA to tap [...]

Hello Beer Fans! All of the tell tale signs of Spring are upon us – long sunny days, the Final Four, Baseball and always in season is great beer (of which we have no shortage).  We have an Outstanding beer coming tonight from Kern, a cask from Stone that we have never had before, a [...]

Hello Beer Fans! St. Patrick’s Day has come and gone and whatever passes for normal around the pub is back.  Tonight we tap a keg of Stone Enjoy By IPA, tomorrow we get beers from Almanac and a Union Jack cask and Friday we have more sports than we can probably handle at one time.  [...]

Hello Beer Fans! The day where everyone turns just a little bit Irish is almost upon us.  We have some amazing beer and food specials to celebrate starting tonight, Thursday, with a cask of Monkey Paw Downs Family Stout done up Irish Car Bomb style with some lactose and whiskey soaked oak chips.  We’ll also [...]

Hello Hoppy Beer Fans! We have a bunch of amazing, and very strong, IPA beers coming on tap at the end of the week including the People’s Choice runners up from the Hayward Double IPA Festival – ZZ Hop from Auburn Ale House.  We just tapped the Sierra Nevada Celebrator 25th Anniversary Double Pale Ale [...]

Hello Beer Fans! I had not really planned on sending out an email this week, but as is usually the case, there is just too much good stuff happening.  Last email I neglected to mention a Green Flash weekend for the 15th and 16th featuring Grand Cru, Columbus Double IPA, Black IPA and Little Freak [...]

Hello Beer Fans! Hopefully we have all recovered from the power-outage excesses of Super Bowl Sunday.  We have a packed month of events coming up that will feature some new breweries like Acoustic Ales and Belching Beaver and some old favorites like Avery, AleSmith and Ballast Point.  The USA takes on Honduras in World Cup [...]

Hello Beer Fans! It has been an awesome anniversary month at the pub full of amazing beer.  We really appreciate the support and good wishes that everyone has shown us not just this month, but over the last 10 years.  I would also like to extend a thank you to Alpine and Societe for brewing [...]