Last year I went to Stone and this year I would like to go to another brewery and Winery in San Diego. Any suggestions? I will be driving in from Yuma, AZ so anything around San Diego would be good. I enjoyed doing the tour of Stone last year.
I'm kidding, of course. From my house, I can walk to:
Hess
Rough Draft
Wet 'n Reckless
Karl Strauss
Ballast Point
Alesmith
Callahan's
Green Flash
You also have:
Stone
On the Tracks
Iron Fist
Mother Earth
Lost Abbey
Port
Mission
Prohibition
Oceanside Aleworks
Coronado
Manzanita
Alpine
Lightning
Aztec
And a million amazing craft beer bars:
Hamiltons, Tiger!Tiger!, Blind Lady Alehouse, Toronado, Small Bar, and aton of great brewpubs whihc I will list later.
dmbGator said:Last year I went to Stone and this year I would like to go to another brewery and Winery in San Diego. Any suggestions? I will be driving in from Yuma, AZ so anything around San Diego would be good. I enjoyed doing the tour of Stone last year.
Any Breweries or Winery in Sand Diego
Obviously a fellow Mira Mesa broI'm kidding, of course. From my house, I can walk to:
Hess
Rough Draft
Wet 'n Reckless
Karl Strauss
Ballast Point
Alesmith
Callahan's
Green Flash
You also have:
Stone
On the Tracks
Iron Fist
Mother Earth
Lost Abbey
Port
Mission
Prohibition
Oceanside Aleworks
Coronado
Manzanita
Alpine
Lightning
Aztec
And a million amazing craft beer bars:
Hamiltons, Tiger!Tiger!, Blind Lady Alehouse, Toronado, Small Bar, and aton of great brewpubs whihc I will list later.
Thanks guys I see I have some planning to do. I see a ton of breweries, any wineries relatively close?
I'd highly recommend checking out the tasting room at White labs yeast factory. Its quite close to Ballast point brewery as well.
http://www.whitelabs.com/tasting_room.html
They have multiple batches of the same beer fermented with different yeasts gives you a great idea of the flavor contributions.
Also you get a short tour of the facility and how the various yeasts are produced.
Hands down, Alpine, is still the best brewery in California, if not top ten in the USA, and it is right off 8 and Tavern on your way in from Yuma. If you do not go to Alpine, you are really missing out....
Stone is our Arc de Triumph of breweries.
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Uh, San Diego is not an "up and coming beer culture." It's one of the most popular craft beer cities in the world right now. There are literally 60 breweries in town and perhaps 10 or more of them are world-class, award winning breweries.From a Native San Diegan. First of all, it is either San Diego or Sand Dawg, not Sand Diego.
San Diego really has an up and coming beer culture. When I grew up, it was boring. Now Pizza Port is rocking their Port Brewing Co beer. Karl Strauss was nastalicious years ago but has a respectable line up. Ballast Point is good if you like hop heavy beer. Stone is our Arc de Triumph of breweries.
And there are more options. You can't go wrong.
Uh, San Diego is not an "up and coming beer culture." It's one of the most popular craft beer cities in the world right now. There are literally 60 breweries in town and perhaps 10 or more of them are world-class, award winning breweries.
I think there are a lot of cities that would claim that title. Mind you that I was raised in Ocean Beach, HS in Point Loma, College and then military in San Diego. I didn't move away from San Diego until I was 28 years old. I agree that San Diego has a fantastic beer culture. But it is still reasonably new. Still growing (up and coming) and that there are a lot of cities that have had a much older and established beer culture. No disrespect to my hometown.
Thanks for all the help guys. I have decided I'm doing Alpine for sure. I'm trying to lock in a Winery now too.. so any suggestions on a San Diego Winery that I could stop at after Alpine. I'm going to try to go to Alpine for a noon tour and then drive to San Diego for a wine tasting. Let me know if a noon tour is not possible since they are closed today and I couldn't find anything on their website. I don't know too much about wine so if there is a good one to go to please let me know. I'm trying to get this all planned so please help.
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