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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 [...]
La Folie Release Party, 11/28!
O’Brien’s will be hosting the San Diego release party for New Belgium’s La Folie. It is a fantastic barrel aged sour brown ale. We have had it on tap before, but now it will be regularly available in San Diego county. We’ll also have NBB’s 2 Below on tap and on special, along with the [...]
Champions Leage, EPL and UEFA Cup!
Hello Soccer Fans! Euro 2008 Qualifying is over and England and Steve McClaren are out. Perhaps England get revenge on Croatia in its World Cup Qualifying group. The UEFA Champions League is in full swing this week on Tuesday and Wednesday. There are only 2 games next week and then most of the match day [...]
Weekend Update…
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 [...]
Wet Hop Weekend!
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 [...]
Wet Hop Fest Postponed
Hello All, It is nice to see that our county has maintained its composure during the firestorm crisis. It is an amazing thing when the shelters need to turn away donations because of the huge outpouring of support. It is a time of sorrow, but I can say that I am proud of the way [...]
O'Brien's is Open! (for now)
O’Brien’s Pub is open regular hours this week (unless they evacuate Kearny Mesa). I hope that everyone is safe and out of harms way. Due to the growing firestorm crisis, we are going to move the Wet Hop Beer Festival to next weekend, November 2, 3 and 4. There are more important things to take care [...]
Urthel Brewers, Wet Hops and GABF!
Hello Beer Fans! Yet again I write to you with news of a special treat from Belgium. On Monday night, October 15th (tonight for most of you, save a few night owls on Sunday) we will have the brewers of the Urthel beers at the pub from 5 to 8 pm. The owner/brewers are Bas [...]
More Belgians, Wet Hops and Big Hops!
Hello Beer Lovers! There is lots of great beer to talk about this week. Our Monday night visit by Xavier von Honsebrouck was a lot of fun. He was very nice and easy to talk to, and best of all, his beers were great. A few are still on tap, and we will be getting [...]
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 – [...]