O'Brien's Pub – San Diego, CA

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 [...]

Greetings Beer Lovers!   The end of summer for most, Labor Day, is almost upon us.  However, for those of us who live here, Labor Day signifies the time that we get our city back from the tourists while the weather is still nice.  And given how warm September and October usually are, it is [...]

Hello Beer Lovers!   It has already been a great week of beer at the pub and the best is yet to come.  We tapped Alpine Exponential Hoppiness on Monday, Lost Abbey Witches Wit, Port Brewing 2nd Anniversary and a cask of Poor Man’s IPA on Tuesday along with releasing Cuvee de Tomme and Isabella [...]

Hello All, Just a short update this week on our upcoming beers.  Tonight, Thursday the 31st we will tap a cask of Ballast Point’s Big Eye IPA at 5 pm.  And as always all of our local beers including AleSmith, Alpine and Port Brewing will be on special.  Tomorrow we feature the beers of Sierra [...]

Hello Beer Fans! This week we have two blockbuster events planned.  First is our annual Real Ale Festival Pre-Party tonight – Thursday the 12th.  We are kicking it off right with the release of Blind Pig IPA on tap.  And I am not talking just one keg.  I mean, this is it, for real, we [...]

Greetings Good Beer Fans!   There is a lot happening in the world of good beer.  Right now we have some great new beers on tap at the pub including Port Brewing’s 2nd Anniversary double IPA.  It is massively hopped and somewhere in the 10% abv range.  The Port Brewing Wipeout IPA is also on [...]

The Ballast Point Brother Levonian is now on tap at the pub.  It is a saison style beer brewed from a recipe by homebrewer Dave Levonian who recently passed away.  Ballast Point is donating the money raised from the beer to Dave’s young daughter’s college fund.  Dave was a great homebrewer and beer enthusiast – [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Greetings Beer Lovers! The big news this week is the return of the Belgian Beer Party at Pizza Port Carlsbad on Saturday, March 29th.  This year’s festival is split into 2 six hour sessions – one from 10 am to 4 pm and the second from 5 pm to 11 pm.  Pre-sale tickets are sold [...]