O'Brien's Pub – San Diego, CA

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 [...]

Hello Beer Fans! This month O’Brien’s Pub celebrates its 14th Anniversary.  The pub was opened January 1st, 1994 by Jim O’Brien and was already the finest place to drink beer in San Diego when Lindsey and I bought it in January of 2003.  It will be our 5th Anniversary of owning the pub.  We have [...]

It is already day 3 of 2008 and that is hard to believe.  On the beer front at the pub, we have some very new and rare beers on tap right now.  Back is the Alaskan Winter Ale, nitro Hoptown DUIPA and AleSmith IPA.  We still have several of the Green Flash beers on tap [...]

O’Brien’s will be hosting the San Diego release party for New Belgium’s La Folie.  It is a fantastic barrel aged sour brown ale.  We have had it on tap before, but now it will be regularly available in San Diego county.  We’ll also have NBB’s 2 Below on tap and on special, along with the [...]

Hello Beer Fans! I have a bunch of great new beers at the pub to tell you about including some fantastic new bottles.  On tap we have the Stone 2007 Double Bastard (which we also have in the bottle).  There is still some of the Hollister beers on tap from Santa Barbara – Hip Hop [...]

Greetings Beer Lovers, We are finally getting around to our Wet Hop Festival this weekend.  I have 27 kegs and casks to tap this year for your lupulin pleasure.  The festival will take over many of our regular taps, but there will still be a few favorites on tap.  The festival will run Friday, Saturday [...]

Hello All, It is nice to see that our county has maintained its composure during the firestorm crisis.  It is an amazing thing when the shelters need to turn away donations because of the huge outpouring of support.  It is a time of sorrow, but I can say that I am proud of the way [...]

O’Brien’s Pub is open regular hours this week (unless they evacuate Kearny Mesa).  I hope that everyone is safe and out of harms way.  Due to the growing firestorm crisis, we are going to move the Wet Hop Beer Festival to next weekend, November 2, 3 and 4.  There are more important things to take care [...]

Hello Beer Fans! Yet again I write to you with news of a special treat from Belgium.  On Monday night, October 15th (tonight for most of you, save a few night owls on Sunday) we will have the brewers of the Urthel beers at the pub from 5 to 8 pm.  The owner/brewers are Bas [...]

Hello Beer Fans! Just a short note today to let you know that the Birthday Week is in full swing and that there are lots of great beers on tap right now.  We still have some of Monday’s Alpine Nickel Stout on tap – it is a barrel aged version of Alpine’s Captain Stout with cherries [...]