O'Brien's Pub – San Diego, CA

Normally, I do not post up stuff just for one beer.  But tonight I had to make an exception for this – Boon Oude Lambic Marriage Parfait.  It is a nearly still, 8% alcohol lambic that has been aged for three years.  This is the base lambic that Frank Boon uses to make the Boon [...]

This weekend is Memorial Day weekend and we will be open normal hours on Saturday (Noon to Midnight) and Sunday (Noon to 6 pm).  However the pub will be CLOSED on Monday, May 26th for the holiday.  To make up for it a little bit, we will be offering 20% off all To Go import [...]

Hello Fans of Good Beer!   We have a very special treat for you this week at the pub.  Thursday night, May 22nd, we will be celebrating the 2nd Anniversary of Port Brewing and Lost Abbey with brewmaster Tomme Arthur and co-owner Vince Marsaglia who will be bringing down his mobile pizza kitchen!  Vince will [...]

Hello All, The pub will be closed this Sunday, May 11th for Mother’s Day.  I hope that you are able to enjoy the day with family. Wednesday the 7th is Alpine Beer Company night at the pub.  We will have 5 beers on tap, 2 in the bottle and 1 on cask!  The line up [...]

Hello Beer Fans!   I still feel as though I have not completely recoverd from the insanity that was the Craft Brewers Conference and World Beer Cup two weeks ago.  It was a fantastic week of beer and brewers – a big thanks to everyone who helped make it happen: the WBC volunteers, the brewers [...]

Hello Good Beer Fans! We have another double dose of casks this week, some new beer releases and an updated bottle list for you.  It all starts tonight – Tuesday the 5th – as we host an impromptu AleSmith night in honor AleSmith brewer Bill Batten’s birthday.  We will be tapping a cask of Nautical Nut [...]

Greetings All! I want to start off by thanking everyone who came out to help celebrate the pub’s 14th anniversary and mine and Lindsey’s 5th anniversary of owning O’Brien’s.  There were a number of great beers and it was great to see so many friendly and familiar faces each night.  In all, I think we [...]

It is already day 3 of 2008 and that is hard to believe.  On the beer front at the pub, we have some very new and rare beers on tap right now.  Back is the Alaskan Winter Ale, nitro Hoptown DUIPA and AleSmith IPA.  We still have several of the Green Flash beers on tap [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]