O'Brien's Pub – San Diego, CA

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 [...]

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 [...]

 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 [...]

Hello San Diego Beer Fans!   I am glad to back in sunny San Diego and the land of hoppy beers!  Our European beer tour was fantastic with many great stops including Malheur, Rodenbach, Westvleteren, La Trappe/Konigshoeven and the tiny De Molen brewery in Holland.  I even managed to carry back two new 3 liter [...]

Hello Great Beer Fans!   We have some great specials on Alpine beer this week along with some fantastic new bottles and up coming Beer and Cheese tastings in April.  Tonight, Wednesday the 24th we will tap two different 5 gallon casks of Alpine’s tasty Token Imperial Porter – one with vanilla bean and one [...]

Hello Big Beer Fans! We have some fantastic big beers on tap and coming soon for this weekend.  It starts tonight, Thursday the 11th, with a cask of Ballast Point Sea Monster Stout at 5 pm.  This delicious, 10% alcohol Imperial Stout is already too easy to drink and cask conditioning can only make it [...]

Hello All! Just a short web-only update this week.  Tonight, Friday the 5th, we feature beers from Deschutes Brewing Company in Bend, Oregon including Hop Henge double IPA, Abyss Imperial Stout, Mirror Mirror barrel aged barleywine and Inversion IPA.  We also still have some of the great Russian River beers on tap from our World [...]

As of opening today, Sunday the 31st, all 14 Russian River beers were still on tap – Supplication, Consecration, Temptation, Redemption, Benediction, Rejection, Damnation, Perdition, Porter, IPA, Blind Pig, Aud Blonde, Dead Leaf Green and Pliny the Elder!  We also still have many of the vintage bottles still available including Beatification and Batch 23 Damnation.  [...]

Hello Good Beer Fans! It has been a very fun month celebrating 16 years of great beer at O’Brien’s.  And there is still plenty more great beer to come.  Right now we have some great hoppy beers on tap including Coronado Idiot IPA, Green Flash Imperial IPA, the new Port Brewing Mongo double IPA, Alpine [...]