O'Brien's Pub – San Diego, CA

Hello Great Beer Fans! It has been a little while since the last email (due to some computer glitches) so as you can imagine, there is much to catch you up on.  We have some great new beers on tap at the pub right now including two new double IPAs – Port Brewing’s 3rd Anniversary [...]

Hello Beer Fans, Just a quick weekend web update for you. Our third and final Beer and Cheese pairing class is on Sunday, May 3rd at O’Brien’s at 6:30 pm.  There are still about 10 seats available as of Noon on Saturday.  We have set the final pairings for the class and I am very excited [...]

Hello All, This week you can look forward to the birthday bash for Pat McIllhenney from Alpine Beer Company and Tyson Blake from San Diego Brewing Company.  In their honor we are tapping casks of Exponential Hoppiness and Lagunitas Correction IPA – a new 7.2% IPA from the brewery that I have not yet even [...]

Hello Beer Fans! Time for another great beer update from O’Brien’s.  Tonight we are doing the first of our three Beer and Cheese pairings and there have been some last minute cancellations.  If you are interested, the class is at 7 pm at Taste in Hillcrest – please call them at 619-683-2306 to reserve a [...]

Hello Beer Fans! As always, there is a lot of great beer news to tell you about this week.  The big happening in the industry is the nation wide one day theater release of the movie Beer Wars.  It will be shown Thursday night, April 16th in several theaters around town including in Mission Valley.  [...]

Good Day Good Beer Fans! We are half-way through the anniversary month and the good beer just keeps flowing.  There are still a few beers left on tap from the epic Lost Abbey night on Friday.  And we have some great new beers on tap including Alpine O’Brien’s IPA, Sierra Nevada Bigfoot Barleywine and Ballast Point [...]

Hello Beer Fans! Our 15th Anniversary celebrations are in full swing.  We have already tapped more than 40 different beers this month and there are many more to come.  Several of the delicious Green Flash beers from Friday are still on tap and the first of the Lost Abbey beers have already been tapped.  A [...]

Happy New Year Beer Lovers!   January, 2009 is O’Brien’s Pub 15th Anniversary!  San Diego’s original beer bar was openend in January, 1994 by Jim O’Brien and served as the first account for many of San Diego’s local breweries.  It was already my favorite place to drink beer by 1997, and in 2003, I liked [...]

We have already started off our 15th Anniversary celebrations with a bang.  Right now we have some incredible beers on tap including Alpine Bad Boy, Ballast Point Sculpin, Deschutes Abyss, Pizza Port Swami’s IPA, Green Flash IPA and Firestone Velvet Merkin. The Chargers play the Colts at 5 pm on SATURDAY, the 3rd.  We will [...]

Hello Beer Fans! As you might expect from the month that spawned the world’s largest beer festival, October is full of good beer happenings here in San Diego.  Of course the La Mesa and El Cajon Octoberfest celebrations will be going on this weekend with lots of German beer.  But there will also be plenty [...]