I hope that 2010 is a little smoother than 2009 (economically speaking). I hope everyone had a great xmas and are able to hang out with close friends or meet new ones this New Years Eve! We’re not really a traditional NY Eve destination but we have our champagne on ice and will be ready [...]
Our good friend Adam Avery is coming down in December with reindeers not really. He’s going to do 2nd Saturday @ Hamilton’s and a very special private dining Avery Experience @ Small Bar. It is a pre sell event and tickets are limited. It will sell out so I would get them asap. Tickets are purchaseable [...]
Great 10 days that seemed to blow by but also seems like they happened so long ago! SD Guild Fest was awesome this year with the 3 sessions allowing for people to avoid the mass crowds! CityBeat came out with Best of and we were lucky enough to get voted Best Beer Bar San Diego. [...]
======= Friday ======= Guinness Alpine Expo Marin White Knuckle Stone Dbl Bastard French Oak 2006 Hamilton’s 2nd Annie Palate Wrecker Avery White Rascal Alpine Bad Boy Stone 13th Annie Damnation 23 Alesmith Evil Dead Red Marin Chocolate Airporter Rouge Glen JW LEE HARVEST ALE Deschutes Mirror Mirror Rogue IMP YSB Coronado Cherry 13th Annie Smoked [...]
HOPLESS – Staying on the brewing line Saturday Dennis, Myself and Jeff awoke at dawn and met Chuck Silva and Ben Spencer (Magnolia Brewing Co in the Haight) @ Chuck’s brewery (Green Flash) to brew Hamilton’s official 3rd anniversary ale. It was clear from the minute we walked in that something special was in the [...]
Lil Big Beer - This past Tuesday Adam Carbonell (Hammies Head Brewer) went up to Karl Strauss Carlsbad and brewed our first beer. “San Diego Small” we designed and constructed the beer to be aflavorful, medium modied beer that is light in color, heavy hopped but with a lower/sessionable ABV around the 3.8-4.5% range. We’re hoping [...]
With all the mindful and great beer spots we we’re lucky enough for all of the hard work to be recognized with kgtv’s 1st place best beer selection 2009. Quite flattering. http://kgtv.cityvoter.com/winners/best-of-10news-com-s-a-list/4742/nightlife/beer-selection
This is the 3rd specialty release in this series from Port. Jeff Bagby and Noah @ Port Brewing designed and crafted this ale using their proprietary Belgian Yeast Strain and spiced with Lemon Zest. The reunion series and the kegs sold were for the Institute of Myeloma and Bone Cancer Research and it’s my understanding [...]
It’s moments like yesterday when you appreciate 3 things. Humanity, World Class Establishments and Libations! Ian, Justin Lewis and Jay really delivered a phenomenal benefit event for our friend Peter Reeves who is currently recovering from surgery after removing a cancerous tumor from his colon. The silent auction, the abundance of Underberg’s and the AMAZING [...]
A problem we’ve always had is the heat.. We started out with a Swamp Cooler. Nice for Phoenix SUX for Diego. Next we went to 1 Fujitsu energy efficient- non refrigerant option. Worked OK. We added one. Still Ok. We added another. Still just Ok. The problem is the capacity these things can handle is [...]
We are celebrating 23 years with Karl and a Cajun feast!
Dueling Casks: Dry Hopped Tower 20 IIPA vs Oatmeal Stout w/vanilla
Draught Beer List:
Woodie Gold
Red Trolley
Tower 10 IPA
Wind n Sea Wheat
Blacks Beach
Balboa Barleywine Shwarzbier
Russian Imperial Stout
Off The R...
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