Here's a newsletter I received about SDBW events at O'Brien's Pub. This might be some information people are interested in: SAN DIEGO BEER WEEK AT O'BRIEN'S Here is the complete list of events at the pub for SDBW. You can follow daily tapping updates on our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/obrienspubsd or on Twitter @obrienspubsd. Enjoy the reading! Friday the 7th - Back Country Beer Day with Alpine and Nickel Beer We will have some big hops on tap including Alpine's new Double O'Brien's IPA and Nickel Hopster Douchebag double IPA. We will be tapping a keg of the Alpine Double O’Brien’s IPA when we open at 11 am and keep the beer on tap all day long. In addition to the Double O’Brien’s IPA we will have 7 other Alpine beers on tap for lunch – Ichabod, Odin’s Raven, Token, Keene Idea, Hoppy Birthday, Irish Red and Alpine Ale. Pure Hoppiness, Duet and Nelson will join the line up at 5 pm. Nickel beer will have Tahoma IPA, Devil’s Copper and nitro Chocolate Vanilla Stonewall Stout on tap. Chuckalek Baltic Porter and Jamul Brewing Porter will also be making an appearance on the draft list. On the food front we will have slow smoked pulled pork from West Coast BBQ on special all day. Sate your hunger with the West Coast Burger, Humberto’s incredible Smoked Chili Verde, Pulled Pork Torta or Pulled Pork Nachos. To find out what is happening at West Coast BBQ and Brew for SDBW including Societe Night, Barrel Aged Weekend, Sierra Weekend and more, check out: http://westcoastbbqandbrew.com/news-events/ They will also have lots of tasty food specials including smoked shrimp, street tacos, skewers, stew, and smoked cheese plates Saturday the 8th - Muther Pucker Sour Day We have been saving up lots of special sour treats all throughout the year for this one. Some of the rare kegs include Vanberg and DeWulf Lambick X Private Domain, Karl Strauss Queen of Tarts and Rella, Vintage Russian River kegs of Consecration, Supplication and Sanctification, New Belgium 2013 La Folie, Vintage Lost Abbey Framboise De Amarossa and Red Poppy, Almanac Citrus Sour, Green Flash Sour Blonde, just to name a few. We will also be letting out some bottles for sale of rare Cantillon, Drie Fonteinen, Lost Abbey and Allagash among others. Look for Nickel Pickel food specials - Nickel Reuben, Nickel Pickel Burger and Nickel BLT (both sandwich and salad) all weekend from the kitchen. Beer Chili and Hot Dogs including the Dirty McGee Dog with Nickel Pickels will also be on the specials menu. We will have a vast selection of sour drafts and bottles when we open at 11:30 am and we will be tapping specialty kegs later in the afternoon as well – keep reading our email newsletters for further details. Sunday the 9th – Sour Brunch We will be opening at 11 am with lots of great sour beer on tap and some wonderful food specials. There is no Charger game, so we all get to drink and relax. We’ll have Nickel Jalapeno Back Country Gold on tap to mix up some delicious Bloody Beers with the Ballast Point Bloody Mary Mix in addition to the sour line up. The kitchen is going to crank out some great food to help you get over that feeling of over indulgence from the day before. We’ll have both Nickel and Lobster BLTs, Lobster Chowder, Tater Tot plates, Fish Tacos and Fish and Chips. Sunday the 9th - Avery Experience Beer Dinner with Adam Avery Tickets are on sale now for $100 with tax and tip inclusive (cash only please). This is going to be a mind-blowing night with 12 beers being poured including many rare and barrel aged beers. And Adam has to be one of the most entertaining people in the brewing industry. ONLY A FEW SEATS LEFT! Dinner starts at 6:30 pm and you must buy a seat in advance at the pub to attend (no online sales). Monday the 10th - Avery Night with so many beers for the dinner, you just know that there are going to be some amazing things on tap for Monday night. Look for favorites like Dugana, Hog Heaven and IPA along with rare specialties like Tweak, The Beast Grand Cru, Samaels, Lilikoi, Rumpkin, PumpKYn and a very limited selection of rare barrel aged beers like Obscuro & Nimbosis, Optuntia, Momi Hiwa, Volint Plus Erat and more, many of them coming straight from Adam’s personal cellar! Look for all of the Avery specialties to be available by 5 pm. It is going to be a seafood themed day from the kitchen with both Fish and Shrimp Tacos, The Papchito Shrimp Sandwich, Clam Chowder and of course our epic Chipotle Fish Torta. Tuesday the 11th - Knee Deep in the Kern River with beers from both breweries If you need me to write something to make you think that you should be here on this night, then don't come. We'll enjoy the beer without you. I will however, mention that there will be a collaboration beer from these breweries and Knee Deep is filling a cask of it. From Knee Deep we are expecting cask and draft of their collaboration Deep River Double IPA, and draft Hoptologist, Simtra and Midnight Black IIPA. From Kern River we will be getting Just Outstanding IPA, Belgian Wit, Class V Stout, the new Shuttle Bunny Double IPA and the version of Deep River Double IPA brewed at Kern River. All beers will be available by 5 pm. The kitchen will be spicing things up with Curried Sloppy Joes, Lentil Soup and the Spicy Steak Sandwich. Wednesday the 12th - Coronado Brewing Night Fresh off a World Beer Cup win, we welcome local favorites Coronado in for SDBW. Look for a combination of brewpub and production beers with lots of great specialties on tap including Second Chance Sour, Smith Saison with Tart Cherries, Port Wine Barrel Aged Jurata Baltic Porter, Brandy Barrel Aged Punkin Drublic, Islander with Peaches, German Chocolate Cake Stout and more!. All beers will be on tap by 5 pm. The kitchen will be doing Taco Night with both Chicken and Carne Asada Tacos, Taco Salad, Carne Asada Nachos and more. Thursday the 13th - CasKading Cask Night and O'Brien's Anniversary Beer Night We have some great beers lined up for casks including Sierra Nevada Celebration, Ballast Point Victory at Sea and Nickel Hopster Douchebag. And we will be tapping some of the O'Brien's Anniversary beers including treats from Sierra Nevada, Monkey Paw and Rip Current. We will start by tapping the casks of Celebration and Victory at Sea at 5 pm with more casks coming online at 7 pm including the Hopster Douchebag. Draft beers will all be on tap by 5 pm. We will have some great pub grub to pair with the cask beers including Cottage Pie, Irish Nachos and a Nickel Pickel and Beer Cheese Plate. Friday the 14th - Tyson's Big Ass Barrel Aged Beer Night This is always a good one. You know Tyson likes to find beers aged in as many different types of barrels as he can. This will be a night that includes all vintage beers. Highlights include Firestone Parabola and Sucaba, Ritual Boulevard Big Deluxe, Deschutes Black Butte XXIII, Lost Abbey Deliverance, Angels Share, RRBC Consecration and a ton more! Look for beers aged in Bourbon, Rye, Brandy, Tequila, Port and various wine casks. There will be barrel aged beers on tap all day, but most will be on tap at 5 pm. Friday is Torta day around the pub and Humberto is planning TORTA MANIA for this particular day. I expect to have 5 different Torta options available including our great Roast Beef or Chicken Tortas and the Tom’s Torta. We’ll also have Lindsey’s awesome Beer Beef Stew served with mashed potatoes. And as a bonus for US Soccer fans, we get the Yanks v. Colombia at 11:45 am on Friday from Craven Cottage in London. The USA will take on Ireland in Dublin on Tuesday the 18th also at 11:45 am. Saturday the 15th - Caught in a Rip Current with Paul and Guy Great beer, great guys. This should be one epic tap takeover. Paul and Guy and the Rip Current crew will be joining us to enjoy their great beer including the 15.7% alcohol One 20th Anniversary IPA brewed for the pub. Here is what we are expecting so far: Marine Layer German Hefe, Barrier Reef Nut Brown, Lupulin Lust IPA (new batch), Vanilla Storm Coffee/Vanilla Imperial Porter, Kona Storm Coffee Imperial Porter, Rescue Buoy RIS, Barleywine (new beer for SDBW events), Aerial American Rye Brown (new beer). Most beers will be on tap all day long, we may wait to tap a few beers until the Rip Current crew shows up so that they can be sure to enjoy them with us. Stay tuned for more details. Look for the Rip Current beers to be on tap all weekend. It will be another spicy themed day from the kitchen with Jerk Chicken specials, Gumbo and Habanero Beer Cheese specials. Sunday the 16th - THE Tomme Arthur Beer Dinner Ok, tickets are now on sale. Let the freakout begin. We have ended beer week with my good friend Tomme every time and it has never been anything less than jaw dropping. The theme this year is barrel aged and blended beers made for others including the new O’Brien’s 20th Anniversary barrel blend, Toronado’s Cable Car and Churchill’s Finest Hour. Cost is $120 with tax and tip inclusive (cash only please). Dinner will be at 6:30 pm and you must buy a seat in advance at the pub (no online sales). There are less than a dozen seats left as of Tuesday the 4th. And there will be life after Beer Week. We have an extraordinary event with Firestone the first week of December - Deconstructed Anniversary Ale Night with kegs of the base barrel aged beers that go into the Anniversary beer. We'll be tapping a Nickel/Ballast Point collaboration Strong Saison - I got to taste it out of the fermentor today and it is tasting AMAZING. And of course we will get to tap lots of Belgian and domestic Christmas beers. Well, that should be more than enough good beer news for you to digest. We'll see you soon to enjoy a fantastic San Diego Beer Week! I am thirsty and I am going to enjoy a bottle of Ballast Point Dorado from my soon to be less full six pack. Cheers, Tom
I'm going early Saturday to get a few in me before Barrel Night. I'll prob go on Friday too to try the Double O'Brien's IPA from Alpine. That's got to be awesome!
