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, This week we welcome one of San Diego’s newest breweries to our taps – Manzanita Brewing Company from Santee.  The brewery just had its grand opening party in July.  We will have five beers on tap – Riverwalk Blond, Pale Ale, Rustic Horizon Red, Gillespie Brown and IPA.  All five will be [...]

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! It is finally seeming like summer after a rather extended June gloom.  August is going to be a great month for beers at the pub.  We have some wonderful new brews flowing right now including Alpine Tuatara (a lower alcohol session ale that is highly hopped), Alpine Nelson Rye-IPA, Bootleggers Knuckle Sandwich [...]

Hello Beer Fans!   The next few weeks will packed with great beers at the pub.  We still have some great Christmas Belgians on tap from this weekend.  Alpine Hoppy Birthday and Duet IPA are flowing and we will casks of both beers this Thursday.  Sculpin will be on tap and cask next week and [...]

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 [...]

Hello Beer Fans! We have a special treat this week for cask ale fans.  We simply had too much beer for the Real Ale Festival this past weekend at Pizza Port Carlsbad and some of the best left overs are making their way to O’Brien’s this week.  We have a massive Alpine night on Friday [...]

Hello US Craft Beer Fans! Although we celebrate great craft beer every day of the year, May 17-23, 2010 is officially American Craft Beer Week.  To commemorate the week, we will be serving up some of the best craft beers around.  We will be tapping something new each night from a great American (in most [...]

Hello Hoppy Beer Fans! Next week we celebrate American Craft Beer Week with a great line up of events.  Tonight, Friday the 14th we have Firestone Double Barrel Ale and Union Jack IPA on tap along with a fresh cask of Alpine O’Brien’s IPA.  Here is the line-up for next week: Monday – Russian River [...]

Hello All, I have been feeling a little under the weather this week so I am skipping out on a full blown email in favor of a short web supdate.  Thursday, April 29th we will host a birthday party for Pat McIlhenney of Alpine Beer Company.  To celebrate the old fart we’ll have Duet IPA [...]