Sierra Nevada Southern Hemisphere Harvest Ale

Aside from college football, one of the things I really look forward to in the fall is the fresh-hop beers that come around. For the uninitiated, fresh-hop beers are those made with, er, fresh hops instead of pelletized hops. Hops are harvested in the fall and the fresh-hop beers are made soon after harvest time. The beers [...]

Can do

Drinking beer out of a can usually means drinking beer I’m not all that crazy about. Yeah, you can find Newcastle in cans and that’s certainly not bad, but it’s not exactly a microbrew.
There is a new exception, though. Colorado brewery Oskar Blues recently began distributing its beers to San Diego, and the one thing that [...]

Beer and saltwater – together again … for a limited time

 
The Old Mission Beach Athletic Club, organizers of the annual Over-The-Line tournament, aren’t letting the beach (and bay) alcohol ban stand in their way. They’ve gotten a special permit that will allow people to drink alcohol during this year’s tourney, which runs this weekend and next (July 12-13 and 19-20.
Amazingly, the special permit even allows [...]

Sierra Nevada Super 7

With 50 taps, some award-winning house brews and my favorite bartender in town (Tyson), the San Diego Brewing Co. is always worth going to. And if you go there this week, you can try a special release from Sierra Nevada, an imperial pilsner called Super 7.
Here’s some background on Super 7, courtesy of Brewsky at the Bar:
Sierra [...]