O'Brien's Pub – San Diego, CA

Hello Beer Week Beer Freaks! Here is an update on the rest of our upcoming San Diego Beer Week Events.  We have added a cask of Sierra Nevada Celebration for Wednesday the 11th and we now have 5 IPAs from Bear Republic for Saturday night the 14th.  Tickets are still available for the Chefs Celebration [...]

Hello Happy Beer Week Fans!   Tomorrow, Friday the 6th kicks off the biggest 10 day beer bash this town has ever seen.  From the 6th to the 15th, pubs, breweries, restaurants and bottles shops all over the county will be celebrating San Diego’s amazing beer culture.  There are more than 200 scheduled events on [...]

Hoppy Halloween Beer Fans!   This Friday, October 30th is our big Halloween Costume Party at the pub.  Most of our decorations are up already and all of the bartenders will be in costume.  Everyone showing up in costume will get $1 off your first pint.  We’ll have some great beers on tap including AleSmith [...]

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 [...]

Hello Beer Fans! It is going to be a big weekend at the pub.  First on Friday the 9th we will have at least 10 different Belgian and Belgian-style beers on tap including Allagash Interlude (with Brettanomyces), Allagash Odyssey (barrel aged dark strong), Maredsous Blond (aka Maredsous 6), Affligem Blonde, Val Dieu Grand Cru, New [...]

Hello Beer Fans! The big news coming out of this past week’s Great American Beer Festival is that Pizza Port Carlsbad was named Large Brewpub of the Year as brewer Jeff Bagby and his team took him an amazing 7 medals including FOUR GOLD MEDALS – Revelations, Beech Street Bitter, Reed’s Wee Heavy and Cow [...]

Check out the complete winners list at: www.greatamericanbeerfestival.com.  Sculpin took a silve r in the IPA category, Lost Abbey won a pair of medals.  Other locals winning medals include Green Flash, La Jolla Rock Bottom, Pizza Port San Clemente and Port Brewing.  I will post up more details about the winners later. Brewer Jeff Bagby [...]

Hello All, Just a web update this week as I leave in a few hours for the Great American Beer Festival.  The big news is that we will have two casks of Ballast Point Sculpin IPA on tap this Thursday, September 24th.  We’ll tap the first one at 5 pm and the second one right [...]

Hello Beer Fans! Just a short pub update this week.  First off, I am going to be on 91X’s Beer 4 Breakfast tomorrow morning, Thursday the 17th around 8:15 am.  You can tune in and listen to us drink some beers from North Coast Brewing Co. including the very delicious Old Rasputin 12 – which [...]

Hello All, Just a short web update today to tell you that nearly all of our new bottles are still available.  More than 55 new bottles remain.  For many of these rare bottles, when they are gone we will not be able to restock them.  So if you missed this weekend, make sure to stop [...]