Rock & Roll Happy Hour

Pinkies up as we head into the weekend! AleSmith took their iconic stout and turned it into a cocktail in a can. Just shake it up and pour hard into the proper stemwear.

While World Cup fans are drinking cities out of beer, AleSmith shouts "bring us your thirsty soccer fans!" Brewed special just for the World Cup, USA Beer is AleSmith Brewing's lighest lager ever. Low ABV, beer flavored beer primed for responsible all day drinking and cheering on World Cup soccer.

Over the last few months AleSmith has been playing around with their Party Tricks IPA, like one of the more recent Imperial variations. Now here for the summer time, HAZY Party Tricks IPA. Same easy drinkability you find in that glowing yellow can of Party Tricks, but in a hazy form. But unlike Party Tricks, Hazy Party you can only get from the AleSmith tasting room.

Hard to beat perfectly rip stone fruit in the summertime, combine that with a light American Lager and you've really got magic! That's exactly what AleSmith Sun Path taste like, the best parts of summer. Light peach flavor married with an easy drinking Lager makes this an ideal beer for the 4th of July, a BBQ or the San Diego County Fair!

Kristen from AleSmith is in this week to show off what they've been up to at 9990 AleSmith Court! We start things off with a twist on a recent brewery trend, Hop Water. This version of Hop Water has a twist, vodka. Hoptails Vokda Hop Water is huge on flavor and low AVB at 5% and is a perfect refresher in the Summer heat.

He saved the IPA for a Friday, Erik from Good Pressure is ending the week with their Good Pressure IPA. A blend of old school and new school San Diego IPAs. Plus, he's got a secret hop that he's using, curious what it is?

A coffee brown for Summer? Absolutely! Erik from Good Pressure likes to make flavorful beers that you can enjoy a few of, Pressure Profile takes all the notes of a malty coffee porter and folds it into a light drinkable brown ale which makes it favor another famous San Diego Beer.

With our proximity to Mexico, it's always nice to have a light malty beer on tap. Good with tacos or good after a hike along Mission Trails Good Pressure Amber is a perfect beer if you want some thing light and freshing that not just a fizzy yellow beer.

Six months ago I thought Erik was crazy for telling me that if Good Pressure only made one beer their Blonde would be it. But once I tried it, I understand why he made that claim.

At the start of 2026 I put them at the top of my new breweries to watch for the year! Now we check in as see what cooking for the summer at Good Pressure Brewing. Eric and Nelson drop by on a warm Monday afternoon with an example of how they are brewing up a little something for everyone with a Strawberry Lemonade Hard Seltzer.

Its almost a Greek tragedy that this beer isn't an year round offering at Duck Foot Brewing. But when It's around I drink my fair share! Just in time for the 11th Anniversary tomorrow we wrap up a week of beers with Brett and Matt with the Crossing Wizard IPA. Brett also tells the story that this beer has a real life San Diegan as inspiration.

Don't let the dark fool you in this beer! It's getting warm out and darker beers can be just as refreshing as a fizzy yellow lager. Duck Foot Brewing proves that point with their Darkwing Dunkel.

You don't think that all those Belgian monks are making beer just to support their monasteries, do you? With all that fantastic beer floating around some of it makes it's way to the lunch table. But since it's hard to focus on prayer and highly unsafe to brew while consuming a 12% ABV beer, the monks created a Belgian Table beer. Friar Duck give you all the fruity and clove flavors you'd expect fr...

Why ask why? Drink Duck Dry! Matt and Bret from Duck Foot Brewing are back with another anytime summer beer, Duck Dry. Their Japanese style Rice Lager is crisp clean with a light floral note thanks to the rice. It's hard to hide any imperfections in a beer like this, lucky for us this beer is flawless.

Warm days of summer are already starting to pop on even on June 1st! Perfect weather for a Lemon Radler from Duck Foot Brewing! Low abv with a ton of lemon with a small hint of lime, this is the perfect kind of beer that will keep you hydrated while partying at the Duck Foot 11th Anniversary THIS WEEKEND!

Not very often do we end our week with a Mexican style lager, but in the case of Barley & Sword it's very fitting! Launching into our weekend with a beer inspired by The Father of Mexican Lager Santiago Graf. Hilighting it's Vienna lager roots this beer really hits home when you get that hint of corn and a subtle salinity? Mike explains why!

Named after an old English tavern, Ye Olde Man & Scythe is ever bit of what you would expect from an English Porter that you'd get pumped up from the cellar of your local pub. 4.6% ABV and still balanced and approachable. This is a perfect shifty or if you just want to chew the fat at the bar.

It is an insanely hard task to make an Irish Red as clean and easy drinking as Barley & Sword's Beoir Bearg. The only thing harder might be trying to pronounce the beer's name without the pronunciation guide printed on the can. Mike and I discuss what makes this beer a labor of love that pays off in drinkablity and flavor.

Mike from Barley & Sword brings today what I think maybe the most acurate West Coast brewing of a traditional Weissbier and he has the medals to back it up. Bier Von Bayern is a traditional unfiltered Bavarian Hefewetzen that doesn't smash you in the face with one flavor but delievers on hints of banana, apricot and clove in a easy drinking, well balanced wheat beer.

This is going to be an educational week for anyone who is interested in beer history and traditional beer styles. Mike from Barley & Sword has made a study and profession out of brewing old world style of beers and unsurprisingly it's found it's audience in San Diego. We start with a beer that would have ruled the West during the time of the Gold Rush, the California Common or has he calls it Sawm...

The McIlhenney 5th Anniversary is offically underway! To kick off the party Shawn and Jamie have brough the party, in a can! Their staple double IPA Wild Child is a easy drinking hoppy IPA that goes down a little too smooth to be such a high ABV.

Its smelling pretty dank in here! Shawn and Jamie McIlhenney have brought their latest Nectaron Express West Coast IPA. A West Coast style IPA that blends both flavorful Nectaron hop with Pineapple Express terpines from Abstracts. That's right, the same strain you'd find at your favorite despensary has had the THC stripped out of it leaving only the flavor that's infused into the beer. Not surpris...

It's been a desert island beer for me since they first started making it 5 years a go! McIlhenney's Muntz New Zealand Rye is a hazy looking beer that it all craft and no hype. It's murky appearance is 100% derived from the insane amount of Nectaron and Nelson Sauvin hops infused in this easy drinking Rye IPA. It also pairs really well with bread and butter pickles and BBQ sauce if you find yoursel...

The Pinberries taste like Pineberries! A recent addition to the McIlhenney line-up and a new favorite in the tasting room. Pineberry West Coast IPA is an intensly pine-forward beer that almost does a 180 on your palate with a berry-like finish. It's truly a beer that will wear your elbow out as you'll want to experience that flip over and over again.

Memorial Weekend is upon us and that means it's time for a McIlhenney Brewing Anniversary! Year 5 bring all the festivities you'd expect from our East County friends like a easy drinking triple IPA, but before that gets underway on Friday we've got a few other beers to enjoy like Jamie's external favorite, Brite Light Helles. She and Shawn explains what makes this beer so special.