O'Brien's Pub – San Diego, CA

Hello All, Just a short update this week on our upcoming beers.  Tonight, Thursday the 31st we will tap a cask of Ballast Point’s Big Eye IPA at 5 pm.  And as always all of our local beers including AleSmith, Alpine and Port Brewing will be on special.  Tomorrow we feature the beers of Sierra [...]

This week we have to say goodbye to Cecilia as she prepares to move to the East Coast to pursue her teaching career.  She has worked for us for the last two years and we are sad to see her leave.  We will be having a going away party for her tonight, Thursday the 5th, [...]

This week we host our fundraiser for the family of Dave Levonian with a special cask conditioned version of Ballast Point’s Brother Levonian Saison at 5:30 pm, on Tuesday, June 3rd.  100% of the sales from the cask will be donated to Dave’s daughter’s college fund.  Thursday the 5th we continue the Ballast Point theme with [...]

Greetings Good Beer Fans!   There is a lot happening in the world of good beer.  Right now we have some great new beers on tap at the pub including Port Brewing’s 2nd Anniversary double IPA.  It is massively hopped and somewhere in the 10% abv range.  The Port Brewing Wipeout IPA is also on [...]

The Ballast Point Brother Levonian is now on tap at the pub.  It is a saison style beer brewed from a recipe by homebrewer Dave Levonian who recently passed away.  Ballast Point is donating the money raised from the beer to Dave’s young daughter’s college fund.  Dave was a great homebrewer and beer enthusiast – [...]

Hello about to be happy Beer Fans! Next week San Diego is hosting the Craft Brewers Conference and World Beer Cup.  More than 2000 industry professionals will be in town and it will mean insane beer events at every good beer bar in town all week long.  Many of the events are posted on the [...]

Hello Beer Fans! There is a too much good beer this week to fit into this email.  This weekend, April 5th and 6th we will have a very special Belgian Bottle Festival that will feature more than 85 different bottles from last weekend’s Belgian Beer Party at Pizza Port Carlsbad!  There are too many beers [...]

Alas, the Russian River Pliny the Younger did not even last 90 minutes.  However, we do have a keg of Bear Republic Racer X on now in its place.  We’ve got one last keg stashed away for April and then that is it until next January – but next year’s batch will be bigger.  Cheers, [...]

Hello Beer Fans! St. Patrick’s Day is almost upon us and we will be celebrating all weekend with great beer. We will have Irish themed casks on Thursday, a Stout night on Friday, Pliny the Younger on Saturday and a huge party on Monday for the actual St. Patrick’s Day (with no green beer, I [...]

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 [...]