News
Craft Brewers Conference Week at O'Brien's!
Hello about to be happy Beer Fans! Next week San Diego is hosting the Craft Brewers Conference and World Beer Cup. More than 2000 industry professionals will be in town and it will mean insane beer events at every good beer bar in town all week long. Many of the events are posted on the [...]
Coronado, Belgian Fest II and Much More!
Hello Beer Fans! There is a too much good beer this week to fit into this email. This weekend, April 5th and 6th we will have a very special Belgian Bottle Festival that will feature more than 85 different bottles from last weekend’s Belgian Beer Party at Pizza Port Carlsbad! There are too many beers [...]
O'Brien's 14th Anniversary Celebrations!
Hello Beer Fans! This month O’Brien’s Pub celebrates its 14th Anniversary. The pub was opened January 1st, 1994 by Jim O’Brien and was already the finest place to drink beer in San Diego when Lindsey and I bought it in January of 2003. It will be our 5th Anniversary of owning the pub. We have [...]
Happy New Year!
It is already day 3 of 2008 and that is hard to believe. On the beer front at the pub, we have some very new and rare beers on tap right now. Back is the Alaskan Winter Ale, nitro Hoptown DUIPA and AleSmith IPA. We still have several of the Green Flash beers on tap [...]
Ultimate Hoppiness and X-Mas Ales!
Hello Holiday Beer Fans! The Shopping (aka Christmas or Holiday) Season is upon us. It is a busy time of year, but hopefully not too busy to have a good beer. There are always a number of great winter ales available this time of year, even if we don’t really have the winter weather to [...]
Ruination, Green Flash and Turkey Day!
Hello Beer Fans! I have a bunch of great new beers at the pub to tell you about including some fantastic new bottles. On tap we have the Stone 2007 Double Bastard (which we also have in the bottle). There is still some of the Hollister beers on tap from Santa Barbara – Hip Hop [...]
9-26 Update – Alpine is Back!
Alpine Pure Hoppiness is back on tap at the pub. The supply issue is over and it should be smooth sailing from here on out. We still have the Alpine Captain Stout on tap as well. This weekend, Alpine Beer Company will be receiving its new 25 barrel fermentors – four of them in all – [...]
Casks and Football!
Hello Beer Lovers! Time again to update you on all of the great beer happenings at O’Brien’s. We still have our bocks and double bocks on tap from last Friday’s Octoberfest party. The San Diego Brewing Co. Consecrator finally made it on late in the evening. Also on tap is the Spaten Optimator, Weihenstephan Korbinian, [...]
Champions League Football at O'Brien's!
Greetings Soccer Fans! The domestic leagues are back in action after the Euro 2008 break and the UEFA Champions League kicks off the group stage this coming week. All of the UCL games on ESPN2 will be shown in High Definition and ESPN Classic is again showing UCL games on delay at 2 pm. Expect [...]
Web Update 9/15
We tapped our double bock Octoberfest party beers on the 14th with Spaten Optimator, Weihenstephan Korbinian, TJ Bufadora, Lightning Fulminator and San Diego Brewing Consecrator all making it on tap by the end of the evening.  It was a night of big MALTY beers at O’Brien’s for once. All 5 bock beers are still on tap and will [...]