O'Brien's Pub – San Diego, CA

Greetings Beer Fans! I know it is a Monday email, but this news just can’t wait! We are starting off this week with a very special event on Monday, October 1st.  Xavier von Honsebrouck, owner of the Von Honsebrouck and Kasteel breweries in Belgium will be at the pub on Monday from 8 to 10 [...]

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 – [...]

Hello Beer Lovers! Time again to update you on all of the great beer happenings at O’Brien’s.  We still have our bocks and double bocks on tap from last Friday’s Octoberfest party.  The San Diego Brewing Co. Consecrator finally made it on late in the evening.  Also on tap is the Spaten Optimator, Weihenstephan Korbinian, [...]

We tapped our double bock Octoberfest party beers on the 14th with Spaten Optimator, Weihenstephan Korbinian, TJ Bufadora, Lightning Fulminator and San Diego Brewing Consecrator all making it on tap by the end of the evening.  It was a night of big MALTY beers at O’Brien’s for once.  All 5 bock beers are still on tap and will [...]

Greetings Fellow Beer Lovers!It is time to get you up to date on happenings at the pub.  Tonight (Thursday the 6th), we celebrate the first of our 11th anniversaries this weekend.  Coronado Brewing Company turns 11 this weekend and we will toast them with a cask of Idiot IPA – which is now available in [...]

Hello Beer Lovers, I was really going to try and keep this short, but if it gets a little long its only because there are too many good beer events to give mention too.  We have a bunch of new stuff on tap this week.  Smithwick’s Irish Red – brewed by Guinness, and Alpine’s McIllheney’s [...]

Hello Beer Fans, There is a lot to cover this week – as always it seems there is just too much good beer.  But first I am happy to announce that we will be doing a bus up to the Stone Anniversary Party for the first session.  The cost of the bus will be $25 [...]

Hello Beer Fans! Just a short note today to let you know that the Birthday Week is in full swing and that there are lots of great beers on tap right now.  We still have some of Monday’s Alpine Nickel Stout on tap – it is a barrel aged version of Alpine’s Captain Stout with cherries [...]

Greetings Good Beer Fans! There is, as usual, much good beer news to report.  Tonight (Thursday the 2nd) we have a cask of Wipeout IPA from Jeff Bagby at Pizza Port Carlsbad at 5 pm.  We also have the special treat of a keg of Pizza Port San Clemente’s El Camino IPA on tap.  We [...]

No email this week, but I just wanted to post up about a few new beers on tap.  We got in a keg of the Guera pilsner from the TJ Brewery.  It is a really nice lager beer, a little drier and with a little more cripsness in the finish than the kolsch-styled Alaskan Summer [...]