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Lots of Great Beer at O'Brien's!

Hello Thirsty Beer Lovers, It is time for another update on the wonderful world of craft beer.  I am sad to say that the Alpine Exponential Hoppiness is all gone.  Thankfully though, there will be more on the way in the next couple of months and Alpine is making a batch of its Bad Boy [...]

Expo, Duet Cask and Closed on Father's Day

Hello All, Just a short note to let you know that we will be closed on Sunday, June 17th for Father’s Day so that we and the employees may spend time with our families.  We will be open normail hours on Friday (11 am to 11 pm) and Saturday (Noon to 11 pm) and we [...]

USA Quarterfinal and Copa America!

Hello Football Fans! The USA narrowly missed a Gold Cup Quarterfinal with Mexico as Panama handed El Tri all they could handle.  Had the match ended in a tie, the US would have played Mexico on Saturday, June 16th at 1 pm.  Instead, the USA faces Panama who has two players serving red card suspensions.  [...]

Gold Cup and La Liga Games!

Hello Soccer Fans, The USA is now 1-0 in the Gold Cup after a hard fought win over Gautemala yesterday in LA.  We will have the remaining two first round USA games on Live on Fox Soccer Channel this Saturday and Tuesday.  And we always show the USA games with the sound on.  Univision is [...]

Cask Ales, Lost Abbey and Expo!

Hello Beer Lovers! As many of you probably already suspected, the next ten days at the pub will be filled with some great beer events.  All this week we are tapping fresh casks of beers poured at the Real Ale Festival this past weekend.  The festival was a great time and for once there was [...]

Festivals, Casks and Avery!

Hello Happy Beer Lovers! I hope that everyone had a great Memorial Day weekend.  Our Trappist Night on Friday was a huge success and we still have all of the Koningshoeven products available including the Quadrupel on tap (now on our third keg) and the Dubbel and Tripel in bottles – the Chimay Tripel is [...]

Closed for Memorial Day

O’Brien’s Pub will be closed on Monday, May 28th for Memorial Day.  Please enjoy the holiday.  We will resume normal hours on Tuesday the 29th.  We will have our Real Ale Fest pre-party on Thrusday the 31st featuring 4 Alpine Beer Company Casks and the launch of Avery’s Piglet Purgatory on draft.  The Real Ale [...]

Trappists, Pint Nights and Alpine Casks!

Hello Beer Fans! We have some great events coming up in the next few weeks – including some great beer festivals around town.  I have had an influx of cool beer glasses lately, so we have lots of glassware specials over the next week.  Right now at the pub we have some kegs on tap [...]

Racer X, La Trappe and Mother's Day

Hello Good Beer Fans! It has been a busy time in the world of good beer.  This past weekend saw the Southern California Homebrewers Festival in Temecula and the Boonville Beer Festival up north.  The homebrew festival was great as always – the weather was perfect and the beer was as good as it has [...]

Alpine Exponential and so much more…

Hello Good Beer Fans! Yet again, there is just too much good beer to write about.  The upside is that you will be able to enjoy even more world class beer at the pub in the coming weeks. The big news of course is our 5 batch vertical tasting of Alpine’s Exponential Hoppiness.  We have [...]

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