Rock & Roll Happy Hour

It's finally Friday and time for the beer that Mel and Tori promised at the beginning of the week! Last week they launched thier Rebelution Colab Courage to Grow IPA with a secret parking lot show with the band. In addtiton to the colaborative effort with the band; what makes this beer special is the usage of all organic hops along with it benifiting organic farmers.

Perfect for the start of Spring Baseball or to cover up why you smell like you just hot-boxed your car. Burgeon Beer dips into the terpene beer world with Faithful Fade, a Double Dry Hopped Hazy IPA packed full of Mosaic, Krush, Simcoe and Pineapple Express Terpenes. Yep! It smells like your uncle Nick's 'secret stash' but is ohh soo drinkable.

It's coming down the mountain! The latest in the Burgeon Beer Adventure Series, Mountain Mode IPA makes it mark onyour palate with a strong pine and citrus edge that gives way to the kind of IPA that will wear your elbow out because it'll keep you sipping over and over again.

Tori and Mel from Burgeon are back with a fresh twist on one of their brewer's favorite styles, the West Coast Pilsner. Named after brewer Anthony's Twin Fin obsession, Twin Fin West Coast Pilsner is thin and light easy drinking hoppy Pilsner that if incredibly deceptive when it comes to ABV.

Coming off some big wins during the SanDiegoBeer. News Awards and a big colab launch with Rebelution, Burgeon Beer has been crazy busy! This week Mel and Tori drop by to show off some of these beers they've been working on but first we get things started with ole' faithful, Carlsbad Crush Mosaic Pale Ale.

Save the biggest for last! Brendan from Coronado Brewing is back one last time with the biggest of the three beers in the Weekend Seriese. Big Weekend is a decietfully easy to drink Double IPA that as Brendan puts it is "very efficient" at almost 9% AVB. Release the weekend!

This beer you won't even find in the tasting room until tomorrow. The very latest in Coronado Brewing's Chasing Waves seriese, Bonanaz Mango IPA pays tribute to a Canadian surf break. But don't worry, there's no notes of maple syurp in this beer, it's a true mango fruit bomb that will have you coming back, again and again and again.

This is the crown jewel of the week! The latest addition to the Coronado Brewing Weekend Seriese, Hazy Weekend Hazy IPA. This Hazy monster is chalked full of Pineapple Express Terps (no THC) to give it a very distinct aroma and flavor. If you didn't think weed and hops were cousins before this beer? You'll know after you drink it!

Same long standing San Diego OC beer, but with a new look! Brendan from Coronado Brewing brought an old classic, Orange Ave a wheat beer that backs big notes of Orange and honey at a very drinky 5.2% ABV. The big twist comes in the new packaging that makes the beer jump off the shelf as much as the flavor does.

I've been trying to nail Brendan from Coronado Brewing down since the launch of their latest edition to the Weekend Seriese. This week he finally drops by the show to talk about Hazy Weekend, but before we get there we need to set a baseline for where the Weekend Seriese started, Weekend Vibes Hazy IPA. A San Diego style IPA packed with Mosaic, Citra and Simcoe held up by a light bodied beer makes...

We wrap up the week with a beer that is a riff on a staff favorite. From Circle of hops the Burning Beard team amped up the hop profile to 11 and gave us Circle of Creeps! You'll want to get your hands on this beer first at the anniversary party this weekend because chances are the staff will make sure all the kegs of this blow first.

It's only appropriate that we sandwitch this beer between St. Patrick's Day and the next full moon, Burning Beard Full Moon Madness Irish Stout. In true Beard form this beer has a little more kick then your standard export stout and that's just the way Nicole likes it!

Gotta tease Dylan a little bit over this beer. His hatred of Hazy IPA's is known far and wide. But, today he's drinking happily. What flavor profile could make this stalwart loather of Hazy beers drink up? Listen and find out what makes Burning Beard Dreamer Deceiver Hazy IPA different.

Because a person can not survive on beer alone, sometime you need a hard seltzer like Burning Beard's Thin Fizzy! Created specificly for Nicole because she wanted a beer alternative behind the bar, this hard seltzer is light a bright with a perfect kiss of raspberry and a hint of lemon. With this beverage in hand you my be inspired to start up the mosh pit during a yacht rock cover from YARP durin...

Who knew that the punks who startred a brewery in an industrial park in East County San Diego could make it to 10 years?! Well if you've seen the family they've built around them it's easy to understand why Burning Beard is celebrating thier 10 year anniversary this week and and are now looking forward to the next 10 years! The BB crew are marking the occation with a Yacht Rock Anniversary complet...

One more beer to wrap up the 6-pack of beers that Harland Brewing created for this years SanDiegoBeer. News Awards. A collab with the man himself, Mr. Brandon Hernandez! What style does this pillar of local beer choose? A West Coast Pale Ale! Once again letting the hops shine bright with just a little more malty backbone.

Here we go with "the big show" the West - West Coast IPA from Harland Brewing created for the SanDiegoBeer. News Awards. A fantastic example of how the West Coast IPA has come from a piney-reinous amber IPA to a bright-citriusy light bodied crusher!

Brandon from SanDiegoBeer. News bought this one as a tribute to his new favorite local watering hole, the brand new Harland Brewing 4-S Ranch. The beer 4-Simcoe Ranch IPA celebrates everything that is a form of Simcoe hops from Pellets to Dynaboost. If you think all that Simcoe would make the hop profile on this beer overpowering, you'd be wrong.

It was a spark of genius on the part of Harland brewers to break up the style by region. Today we try another beer from the SanDiegoBeer. News Awards 6-pack. Central - West Coast Pilsner, tapping breweries in the central area of San Diego to create a truly San Diego take on a hoppy pilsner.

It took someone like Brandon Hernandez who's been writing and promoting San Diego craft beer for years, to come along and put in the leg work in for an awards ceremony that acknowledges all the amazing hard work that goes into the local beer scene. Now in it's 6th year the San Diego Beer News awards are a highlight of the year where brewers and fans of beer can come toghter at a free event! This y...

This music is playing but the mics are still on, Tom Nickel decided to whip out a BONUS BEER for a Friday. As we sip on a nite cap of Nickel Beer 1348 Black Death, a barrel aged stout straitght out of the mad-mind of Tom and his assistant. This beer is not one to be drank too cool, let it sit and watch the flavors open up. The reward is a bourbon barrel aged beer that taste more like it came out o...

We started the week with a Double IPA, we end the week with a Double IPA. As Tom and Tyson from O'Brien's has officialy kicked off thier St. Patrick's Day Weekend, we still take a break for Corned Beef Rubens and Irish Tot-Choes to toast with Pizza Port Brewing's Mongo Double IPA.

With St. Patrick's Day around the corner, Tom Nickel from Nickel Beer Co has brought in a cousin to the famous Guiness, but not the frothy nitro version you find in your local Irish pub but the squatty bottled Export version of Guiness. More ABV and a more robust drinking profile, if you want to drink something dark at O'Brien's for the holiday...this is it.

You'd think with as warm is it is right now, a malty beer would be the last thing you'd want to quench your thirst BUT with the amazing balance of Nickel Beer Co's CC O'Neil's Irish Red this beer is satisfying and refreshing! Tom and Tyson from O'Brien's pour out a couple of pints and explain the origins of the beer along with the insanely good pairing of their Corned Beef Ruben.

3-Peat Victory as the Best Craft Beer Bar in America comes with the reponsibility of throwing all the right parties and when a name like O'Brien's is on the door you better deliever when it comes to St. Patricks's Day! Tom and Tyson do that indeed! Rolling in on a Tuesday with two perfect creations Nickel Beer Co's St. Patrick's Irish Lager AND fresh from the kitchen O'Brien's IRish Tat-choes...br...