This Saturday will mark the one-year anniversary of my marriage. To celebrate, the wife and I will be driving down to San Diego for some much needed rest and relaxation. My wife, being the cool chick she is, is cool with planning the trip around visiting some of the awesome breweries that dot the southern California landscape. Here is my proposed itinerary:
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Lost Abbey / Port Brewing
155 Mata Way, Suite 104
San Marcos, CA 92069
phone: (760) 891-0272http://www.lostabbey.com
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Stone Brewing Co. – World Bistro and Gardens
1999 Citracado Parkway
Escondido, CA 92029
phone: (760) 471-4999http://www.stonebrew.com/
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Pizza Port and Port Brewing Co. – Solana Beach
135 N. Highway 101
Solana Beach, CA 92075
phone: (858) 481-7332http://www.pizzaport.com/
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AleSmith Brewing Company
9368 Cabot Drive
San Diego, CA 92126
phone: (858) 549-9888
http://www.alesmith.com/
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Toronado San Diego
4026 30th St
San Diego, CA 92104
phone: (619) 521-1341http://www.toronadosd.com
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Green Flash Brewing Co.
1430 Vantage Court, #104A
Vista, CA 92083
phone: (760) 597-9012
http://greenflashbrew.com
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Pizza Port and Port Brewing Co. – Carlsbad
571 Carlsbad Village Dr.
Carlsbad, CA 92008
phone: (760) 720-7007http://www.pizzaport.com/
- Coronado Brewing Company
170 Orange Ave.
Coronado, CA 92118
phone: (619) 437-4452http://www.coronadobrewingcompany.com
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Yard House – San Diego
1023 4th Ave
San Diego, CA 92101
phone: (619) 233-9273http://www.yardhouse.com/
About nine places in five days. When you think about all the other places we want to go, I’m not sure if I’ll be able to hit them all. We don’t want to stress out on this vacation so we’ll hit what we can. I have my “must visit” breweries and everything else fall under “if we have the time”.
While we’ll be frolicking merrily on some of San Diego’s finest beaches, many in the Bay Area beer community will be headed up to the Northern California Homebrew Festival, aka Beer Camp. We had originally planned to go to beer camp this year but I dropped the ball. From what I understand, there are still tickets available but what the BetterBeerBlog crew wanted to do was attend the brewer’s dinner hosted by the Sean Paxton, the homebrew chef. Oh snap! My bad.
I’ve always prided myself on being an individual. I’ll just zig while every one else zags. Or I could just be trying to make lemonade from the sourness that is the fruit of my failure. Anyway, I will be bringing my laptop with me so I’ll try and blog while I’m on the road but don’t hold your breath. You know how these things go. If anyone has any suggestion on where we should go, leave me a comment. We will have access to the series of tubes known as the world wide internebs.
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Wow! Happy anniversary!
Sounds wonderful. In my opinion, you could easily skip the Yard House, perhaps substitute Hamilton’s there. Or possibly since you are a foodie, check out Jayne’s Gastropub at 4677 30th St… one we haven’t gotten to yet.
San Diego will be awesome and romantic!
FYI #1,2,6,7 are all near Hwy 78. I plan on that drive myself someday. 2nd on Skip the Yard House, a few business’ down is non-chain pub serving many San Diego brews.
Skip Toronado. Lacking the atmosphere of SF. Go to Hailton’s Tavern instead. Check out their site Awesome tap and bottle list.
http://www.hamiltonstavern.com
Hi, check out Downtown Johnny Brown’s in the northern downtown area. It’s a bit hard to find, and has a hole in the wall ambiance, if you’re in to that thing, but a better selection than the Yardhouse, and not as commercial or as pricey. Food is average, but they have a great revolving selection on tap. check them out at http://www.downtownjohnnybrowns.com.
Good luck!