I am going to be out there for business next week from MN and wanted to get some suggestions of limo or bus tour companies to do some brewery stops. I have been to many of them before, but we are bringing our wives out there and thought it would be responsible to get use a limo or something. Anyone have any suggestions on who to use? Also, we are a bunch of sour heads, so they must stop at Lost Abby and any other breweries that specialize in that style.
Brewery Tours of San Diego or Brew Hop are both solid. I recommend the Private Tour option if you have the time and people for it. http://brewhop.com/ http://www.brewerytoursofsandiego.com/
I've never been on one, but I've seen how Summer (of Brew Hop) conducts her tours and she does a really good job. IIRC, Brew Hop is the only tour that Societe trusts so much that they let them conduct their own in-brewery tours without any oversight. Lost Abbey is about the only SD brewery you can reliably find sours right now.
I did Brew Hop back when they offered a Groupon for it, and it was honestly a blast. We only went to Lost Abbey, but brought beers for the rides up and back (well mostly up, there was a lot of sleeping on the way back), which was really nice.
Scavengers Brewery Tours I can't personally attest to the quality (yet), but the vehicle looks cool as hell and I have heard good things about them so I thought I would put it out there. Reviews seem to be decent on Yelp. Not the extremely similar url of one of th other brewery tour companies in SD. http://www.brewerytoursandiego.com/ http://www.yelp.com/biz/scavengers-beer-and-adventure-tours-carlsbad
Brewhop is the way to go! Summer and Larz pay attention to your wants without making themselves the show, not to mention they're great people.
