O'Brien's Pub – San Diego, CA

I just wanted to update everyone on our post-Craft Brewers Conference week line up.  We still have some great beer that didn’t get tapped and I plan to get to most of it this week.  I updated the tap list as well.  Here is a brief run down on the week: Monday – Blind Pig [...]

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 Good Beer Fans! We have another double dose of casks this week, some new beer releases and an updated bottle list for you.  It all starts tonight – Tuesday the 5th – as we host an impromptu AleSmith night in honor AleSmith brewer Bill Batten’s birthday.  We will be tapping a cask of Nautical Nut [...]

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 [...]

Today, Tuesday, December 18th we will have the new O’Brien’s IPA from Alpine Beer Company on tap.  Owner/brewer Pat McIllhenny and I collaborated on the recipe and I went up to help him brew it.  It is a 6.2% alcohol, golden colored IPA with tons of hops.  We used Columbus, Centennial, Cascade, Amarillo and Simcoe [...]

I have updated the On Tap list and we now have 11 of our holiday ales on tap (as of Wednesday night).  We have beer from: Young’s, Anchor, AleSmith, Ballast Point, Port Brewing, Sierra Nevada, Craftsman, Alaskan, Pyramid, Lightning and Deschutes.  I still have kegs from Moylans, Lost Abbey, Delirium and Gouden Carolous coming on tap [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

The Wet Hop Festival beers are finally giving way back to our regular line-up.  We still have about 10 wet hop ales on tap and that number should decline slowly through this coming weekend.  All of the 5 and 8 gallon kegs are gone, all the beers still on tap came in full 15 gallon [...]

Greetings Beer Lovers, We are finally getting around to our Wet Hop Festival this weekend.  I have 27 kegs and casks to tap this year for your lupulin pleasure.  The festival will take over many of our regular taps, but there will still be a few favorites on tap.  The festival will run Friday, Saturday [...]