O'Brien's Pub – San Diego, CA

Good Morning Beer Fans! It is going to be a very eventful next four weeks around the pub.  We celebrate Octoberfest this weekend, help Ballast Point celebrate its 14th Anniversary next week, then the wet hop festival, then a celebration of 30 years of great beer from Sierra Nevada and then onto to San Diego [...]

Hello Beer Fans! We have some great beer to help kick off your Labor Day weekend festivities.  Fresh Kegs of Alpine O’Brien’s IPA, Malheur 12, Russian River Pliny the Elder and Marin White Knuckle just went on tap and there is still some Alpine Exponential Hoppiness left (more will be coming in on Friday!).  Rodenbach [...]

Hello Beer Fans!   We have lots of great cold beer for you at the pub over the next few weeks.  The World Cup is over and Spain is the new champion of the world.  It was nice to see team USA and Landon Donovan win an ESPY award this week for Best Sports Moment for [...]

Hello Beer Fans! We have a great line up of beers in July including quite rather a good number of Belgian and Belgian-style ales.  But don’t worry, there are lots of hops right around the corner as well.  And the World Cup is finally winding down.  There are only two matches left – both at [...]

Well, maybe not in the way that you are thinking about it.  Thursday, April 1st we host the US draft launch for Malheur 10 and Malheur 12 at 5 pm.  The brewery name Malheur translates to “misfortune” – many Belgian brewers have names that are a play on words.  So we will have massive amounts [...]

Hello San Diego Beer Fans!   I am glad to back in sunny San Diego and the land of hoppy beers!  Our European beer tour was fantastic with many great stops including Malheur, Rodenbach, Westvleteren, La Trappe/Konigshoeven and the tiny De Molen brewery in Holland.  I even managed to carry back two new 3 liter [...]

Hello Holiday Beer Fans!   The best beer and food holiday of the year is almost upon us.  Make sure you incorporate beer into your meal this Thanksgiving.  Cooking with beer is easy and adds great flavor – you can baste your bird in beer and make beer gravy (dark beers without too much roast [...]

Hello Happy Beer Week Beer Fans! San Diego Beer Week is in full swing!  We have already had some great events and we have plenty more coming up.  Tonight, Wednesday the 11th we have a Belgian Ale night and a special cask of Sierra Nevada Celebration at 5:30 pm!  We will have Het Anker Lucifer [...]

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 [...]