O'Brien's Pub – San Diego, CA

Hello Great Beer Fans! June is looking like a great month – Real Ale Festival, San Diego International Beer Festival and the start of the World Cup on the 11th.  In the meantime, we have some great beer coming up for your enjoyment.  We just tapped kegs of Lagunitas IPA and Full Sail Hop Pursuit.  We’ll also have [...]

Hello Thirsty Beer Fans! Great beer just keeps coming our way!  We’ve got some great new beers from Triple Rock, Green Flash and Sierra Nevada to tap this week.  And on tap right now you can find Alpine Nelson Rye-IPA, Alpine Duet IPA, Oskar Blues Mama’s Little Yellow Pils, Port Wipeout IPA, three beers from [...]

Hello Lucky San Diego Beer Fans! We are very forntunate to be a part of such a wonderful and vibrant beer scene here in San Diego.  Our local brewers brought home 21 medals from the World Beer Cup this past weekend in Chicago and Ballast Point won three gold medals and was named Small Brewing [...]

Hello Beer Lovers! Just a quick web update for now.  Tonight, Wednesday the 7th we tap kegs of Kern River’s delicious J.O. (Just Outstanding) IPA and Citra Double IPA.  Both beers are fantastic and neither one will likely make it to the end of the week.  The good news though is that Kern River will [...]

Well, maybe not in the way that you are thinking about it.  Thursday, April 1st we host the US draft launch for Malheur 10 and Malheur 12 at 5 pm.  The brewery name Malheur translates to “misfortune” – many Belgian brewers have names that are a play on words.  So we will have massive amounts [...]

 Hello Beer Fans!   The chaos of St. Patrick’s day is behind us and there is plenty of great beer coming up.  We still have 4 triple IPAs on tap as of this morning – Alpine Exponential Hoppiness, Moylan’s Hopsickle, Avery Maharaja and Port Hop 15.  This is all in addition to Russian River Pliny [...]

Hello San Diego Beer Fans!   I am glad to back in sunny San Diego and the land of hoppy beers!  Our European beer tour was fantastic with many great stops including Malheur, Rodenbach, Westvleteren, La Trappe/Konigshoeven and the tiny De Molen brewery in Holland.  I even managed to carry back two new 3 liter [...]

Hello Big Beer Fans! We have some fantastic big beers on tap and coming soon for this weekend.  It starts tonight, Thursday the 11th, with a cask of Ballast Point Sea Monster Stout at 5 pm.  This delicious, 10% alcohol Imperial Stout is already too easy to drink and cask conditioning can only make it [...]

Hello Good Beer Fans! It has been a very fun month celebrating 16 years of great beer at O’Brien’s.  And there is still plenty more great beer to come.  Right now we have some great hoppy beers on tap including Coronado Idiot IPA, Green Flash Imperial IPA, the new Port Brewing Mongo double IPA, Alpine [...]

Hello Good Beer Drinkers! This promises to be a great weekend in San Diego and at the pub.  It starts Thursday the 14th with a cask of Coronado Idiot IPA at 5 pm.  Then on Friday we have our massive 15 beer Alpine night.  Saturday the divisional playoffs happen and we all get to be [...]