O'Brien's Pub – San Diego, CA

Hello Beer Fans! The big news coming out of this past week’s Great American Beer Festival is that Pizza Port Carlsbad was named Large Brewpub of the Year as brewer Jeff Bagby and his team took him an amazing 7 medals including FOUR GOLD MEDALS – Revelations, Beech Street Bitter, Reed’s Wee Heavy and Cow [...]

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 [...]

Hello Beer Fans! Just a short pub update this week.  First off, I am going to be on 91X’s Beer 4 Breakfast tomorrow morning, Thursday the 17th around 8:15 am.  You can tune in and listen to us drink some beers from North Coast Brewing Co. including the very delicious Old Rasputin 12 – which [...]

Hello Beer Lovers! This weekend (Friday-Sunday) is our big Bottle Bonanza with lots of rare beers that were left from the San Diego International Beer Festival at the county fair.  We have about 70 new bottles from over a dozen different countries including Denmark, Norway, Japan, Scotland, England, Belgium, Holland, Canada and of course the [...]

Hello Beer Fans! The weather is hot, but there is plenty of good, cold beer to tell you about at the pub.  We’ve got some great events coming up including a ton of new and rare bottles and our fall beer and cheese pairings.  Thursday the 27th we will tap a cask of Alpine’s Nelson [...]

Hello Beer Fans! There is a lot of great beer news to share this week.  There a bunch of upcoming festivals and tastings coming up in August, we have an incredible cask line up for the next few weeks and I have a slew of specialty beers to tap around my birthday.  And there are [...]

Hello All, Just a quick web update this week.  We have a bunch of beers on tap for our Christmas in July promotion.  On tap you will find St. Bernardus Christmas (2 kegs!), Scaldis Noel, Alaskan Smoked Porter, Sierra Nevada Bigfoot and for right now, St. Feuillien Noel, which is likely to blow soon – [...]

Greetings Beer Fans! The weather is hot, and that means that cold, hoppy beer is tasting great.  And thankfully, we have quite a bit of it right now.  In addition to our normal line up of Bear Republic Racer 5 IPA, Blind Pig IPA and Russian River IPA we have both Alpine Nelson Rye-IPA and [...]

Greetings Beer Lovers! A very happy birthday to the USA this weekend!  We will be closed on Saturday, July 4th to spend the holiday with family and friends.  The pub will be open normal hours on both Friday (11 am to Midnight) and Sunday (Noon to 6 pm).  Friday the 3rd we will host a [...]

Hello Beer Fans! I am finally recovered from the Real Ale Festival and my attempt to try every beer.  I came close, but could not make it through all 60 beers over the weekend.  If couldn’t make it by the festival, at least we have some great cask beer coming up for you in the [...]