O'Brien's Pub – San Diego, CA

Hoppy 2010 Beer Fans! This month marks the 16th Anniversary of O’Brien’s Pub.  It is a lot of years and a lot of great beers.  I have fond memories of O’Brien’s as a patron, a brewer bringing down kegs and casks of Torrey Pines IPA and now as an owner for the last 7 years.  [...]

Hello Holiday Beer Fans! The Chargers are 10-3, Old Rasputin XII is back in stock, Beer Chili is on the way and we’ll have Belgian Christmas ales on tap this weekend – it really is a time for joy!  As of tonight (12/16), we will start tapping some of our many winter warmers including Coronado [...]

Hello Strong Ale Fans! This weekend is the San Diego Strong Ale Festival at Pizza Port Carlsbad. The fest will run Friday, December 4th from 4-11 pm and Saturday the 5th from 11 am to 11 pm. There will be more than 65 beers all over 8% on tap both days. You can buy tickets [...]

Hello Holiday Beer Fans!   The best beer and food holiday of the year is almost upon us.  Make sure you incorporate beer into your meal this Thanksgiving.  Cooking with beer is easy and adds great flavor – you can baste your bird in beer and make beer gravy (dark beers without too much roast [...]

Hello Happy Beer Week Beer Fans! San Diego Beer Week is in full swing!  We have already had some great events and we have plenty more coming up.  Tonight, Wednesday the 11th we have a Belgian Ale night and a special cask of Sierra Nevada Celebration at 5:30 pm!  We will have Het Anker Lucifer [...]

Hello Beer Week Beer Freaks! Here is an update on the rest of our upcoming San Diego Beer Week Events.  We have added a cask of Sierra Nevada Celebration for Wednesday the 11th and we now have 5 IPAs from Bear Republic for Saturday night the 14th.  Tickets are still available for the Chefs Celebration [...]

Hoppy Halloween Beer Fans!   This Friday, October 30th is our big Halloween Costume Party at the pub.  Most of our decorations are up already and all of the bartenders will be in costume.  Everyone showing up in costume will get $1 off your first pint.  We’ll have some great beers on tap including AleSmith [...]

Hello Hoppy Beer Fans! This is one of my favorite weekends of the beer year – our Wet Hop Beer Festival.  Wet Hop beers use fresh, right off the vine hops in insane quantities to create truly unique hop flavors in the beer.  While not as bitter or strong as IPAs, wet hop beers have [...]

Hello Beer Fans! It is going to be a big weekend at the pub.  First on Friday the 9th we will have at least 10 different Belgian and Belgian-style beers on tap including Allagash Interlude (with Brettanomyces), Allagash Odyssey (barrel aged dark strong), Maredsous Blond (aka Maredsous 6), Affligem Blonde, Val Dieu Grand Cru, New [...]

Hello All, Just a web update this week as I leave in a few hours for the Great American Beer Festival.  The big news is that we will have two casks of Ballast Point Sculpin IPA on tap this Thursday, September 24th.  We’ll tap the first one at 5 pm and the second one right [...]