Costa Rican Craft Brewery

Hopefully they treat their water... CR is largely geothermal. Imperial (the Coors Light of CR) has a distinct sulfur quality in the nose

 

If you visit the Arenal region there is Lake Arenal Brewery, which is part of a hotel/resort.
http://www.lakearenalhotel.com/

 

I was in CR last year and i liked there red ale, it was on tap where i was staying. If you're still in San Jose try and get to Stiefel Pub they have a big variety of local craft and do flights.

 

Stiefel Pub rocks!! Great selection of beers. Some very good pub food too. Not an extensive menu, but some excellent choices. Their pork burger is phenomenal!

In La Fortuna, there's a good craft beer bar. Sorry, but I don't remember the name of it. It's on the western edge of town, on the north side of the road.

 

'La Fortuna Pub' I believe

 

The place I'm thinking of is definitely La_Fortuna_Pub. My wife reminded me that it's across the road from the new artisanal chocolate shop.

La_Planta is in the capitol, San Jose.

 

I have a funny story regarding Costa Rica which I'll share here although I'm not sure how well it fits. While I was studying at the Siebel Institute of Technology in Chicago, IL one of my classmates was from a brewery in Costa Rica. The class was discussing the cleaning of returnable bottles and someone made a joke about the movie "Strange Brew" where the McKenzie brothers put a mouse into a bottle and try to return it to the brewery thinking they'll make money off of it. A little while later my Costa Rican friend leans over to me and asks i broken English "Jim... mouse in the bottle ... how you get it out... put a snake in?"