O'Brien's Pub – San Diego, CA

Hello Holiday Beer Fans!
Winter is a great time to be a beer drinker.  Nearly every brewery has a special release for this time of year and it always seems to be something wonderfully strong and tasty.  We’ll be tapping a bunch of domestic winter beers this weekend and we still have some [...]

Hello Beer Fans! Our 17th anniversary party last week was a ton of fun and the Nickel Bag double IPA turned out great.  We’ll be getting more kegs of it this week.  A couple of the wonderful Pizza Port beers are still on tap – For Peet’s Sake (coffee oatmeal brown ale), Where’s My Lightsaber [...]

Hello Beer Fans! This weekend we celebrate 17 years of great beer at O’Brien’s.  From the time that original owner Jim O’Brien opened in 1994, O’Brien’s has been a home for San Diego’s great beer.  The pub was the first account for many of the county’s breweries including the one we will feature this Friday, [...]

Hello Hoppy Beer Fans! One of my favorite weekends of the year is upon us – our annual Wet Hop Beer Festival.  Every year we pay tribute to the hop harvest by serving beers brewed with wet, fresh off the vine hops.  These special wet hop harvest ales can only be brewed once a year [...]

Hello Beer Fans! We have a number of great new beers coming up this week along with some fantastic cask beers over next few weeks.  The tap line up has been particularly good the past week with tons of incredible IPAs – Duet, Nelson, O’Brien’s, Racer 5, West Coast and we will be getting more of [...]

Hello Great Beer Fans! June is looking like a great month – Real Ale Festival, San Diego International Beer Festival and the start of the World Cup on the 11th.  In the meantime, we have some great beer coming up for your enjoyment.  We just tapped kegs of Lagunitas IPA and Full Sail Hop Pursuit.  We’ll also have [...]

Hello US Craft Beer Fans! Although we celebrate great craft beer every day of the year, May 17-23, 2010 is officially American Craft Beer Week.  To commemorate the week, we will be serving up some of the best craft beers around.  We will be tapping something new each night from a great American (in most [...]

Hello Thirsty Beer Fans! Great beer just keeps coming our way!  We’ve got some great new beers from Triple Rock, Green Flash and Sierra Nevada to tap this week.  And on tap right now you can find Alpine Nelson Rye-IPA, Alpine Duet IPA, Oskar Blues Mama’s Little Yellow Pils, Port Wipeout IPA, three beers from [...]

Hello Hoppy Beer Fans! This is one of my favorite weekends of the beer year – our Wet Hop Beer Festival.  Wet Hop beers use fresh, right off the vine hops in insane quantities to create truly unique hop flavors in the beer.  While not as bitter or strong as IPAs, wet hop beers have [...]

This weekend is our big bottle bonanza and I wanted to post up the list of what will be available.  I have one case of most beers so I expect the vast majority of them to be around all weekend.  We will be offering 10% off any import bottle on this list to-go on Friday.  [...]