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Wet Hop Festival This Weekend!
Hello Hop Fans! We host one of my favorite annual events this weekend, our 10th Wet Hop Festival. We will have 29 different beers to tap over the weekend with 26-27 expected on tap Friday, Saturday and Sunday. We get a little sneak peak tonight (Thursday) with a cask of Port Brewing’s High Tide IPA [...]
Great Food, Beer and Fun at O’Brien’s!
Hello Good Beer Fans! A hopefully quick update this week on upcoming events this weekend along with news on our next pub trip to London and Belgium in December to taste amazing Christmas beers. We have restocked our O’Brien’s pint glasses for sale and added a few new ones including “I Always Get a Hoppy [...]
Dorado, Brunch and Ocotberfest!
Hello Beer Fans! We have some great stuff coming up for you over the next few weeks, starting tonight with a cask of Ballast Point Dorado double IPA at 5 pm! I’ve got news on San Diego Beer Week, our upcoming Belgian Beer Dinner and our 10th Wet Hop Festival. We’re tapping some great beers [...]
Ballast Pt. Beer and Food Fest This Sunday!
Hello Beer and Food Fans! We have a fantastic weekend coming up for you at the pub. Look for some great specialty beers from Karl Strauss including a cask of Big Barrel double IPA tonight and an amazing night of Beer and Food this Sunday evening with our good friends from Ballast Point. We have [...]
DBA, Floyd and Lots of Hops!
Hello Beer Fans! Lots of great beer to fill you in and fill you up this week. We have some incredible casks to kick off the month, a Beer and Food Festival at the pub and more awesome hoppy beers than you liver will know what to do with. So read on for all of [...]
Sierra, Breakfast and Pink Floyd!
Hello Beer Fans! Our Sierra Nevada Beer Dinner on Sunday was really fun and we tasted lots of great beer. The good news for you is that there is tons left over and we will be tapping it all week long. We have Sierra Nevada Flipside Double IPA on tap right now and it is [...]
Christmas in July and Sierra Nevada Week!
Hello Beer Fans! The next few weeks are shaping up to be a great time to be drinking beer at the pub. We start our annual Christmas in July this Friday, next week is Sierra Nevada Week at the pub and I am already tracking down a number of amazing specialty beers for my birthday [...]
Sierra Dinner, X-Mas in July and West Coast!
Hello Beer Fans, Sorry for the long absence from the newsletter, but as many of you know the last month has been very turbulent for me and Lindsey. We divested ourselves of Bailey Barbecue and Julian Brewing Company because of an increasingly unworkable situation with our partners. The upside is that I now have more [...]
Alpine, New Belgium and USA!
Hello Beer Fans! This is going to be a great weekend for fans of Alpine Beer Company and for fans of the beautiful game as EURO 2012 and the USA’s World Cup Qualifying campaign get under way. There are some great Ballast Point casks coming up next week and the pub will be open on [...]
Moonlight Mead, US Soccer and GFBC!
Hello Beer and Mead Fans! We have a very special treat at the pub tonight for you mead (honey wine) fans. Michael Fairbrother of Moonlight Meadery in Londonderry, New Hampshire will be at O’Brien’s at 8 pm tonight, Wednesday, May 30th. We will have 5 Moonlight Meads in the bottle – Scorn (chili pepper mead), [...]