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American Craft Beer Week!

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 [...]

American Craft Beer Week 5-17 to 5-24

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 [...]

Europa League Final and USA

Hello Soccer Fans! The Europa League Final is today, Wednesday, May 12th at 11:45 am.  The game will be shown on Direct TV’s UEFA channel 461.  It will be an historic day as Clint Dempsey of Fulham will become the first American to play in a European Club Final.  It will be the London club’s 16th [...]

Triple Rock, Real Ale and O'Brien's IPA!

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 [...]

Alpine Birthday Party!

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 [...]

21 SD Medals at World Beer Cup!

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 [...]

Sculpin Casks and Urthel Visit!

Hello Beer Fans! We had one hell of a party last week to kick off the launch of Malheur draft.  And though we have blown through plenty of beer, both the light colored 10 and the dark, rich 12 are both still on tap.  So if you haven’t tried them yet, indulge yourself with a [...]

Kern River, Urthel Visit and Cheese!

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 [...]

Massive Misfortune Befalls O'Brien's!

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 [...]

Belgian Beer Party this Weekend!!!

 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 [...]

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