I Like Beer: A column for those who like beer
Welcome to I Like Beer, a column dedicated to great beer and the stories that go with them....
Jeff Spanier
Cheers from the Oregon Coast!
It’s hard for a beer enthusiast to leave San Diego’s 150 independent breweries and thousands of stellar beer selections. But brewery travels are the origin...
North County brewers celebrate summer with pale ale resurgence
This summer has seen a resurgence of a classic craft beer style that for several years has been hard to find (outside the ubiquitous AleSmith...
Carlsbad’s That Pizza Place is back…with plenty of local beer
Longtime residents of Carlsbad have no doubt made their way at one time or another to That Pizza Place. For many of us who grew...
Slainte! from Tig Bhric Pub in Ireland’s County Kerry
In the midst of the pandemic, with plans for travel canceled, I started hunting online for a “dream pub” to visit whenever normalcy returned. My...
Beer lovers head east to Jacked Up Brewery in Escondido
Coastal craft brew enthusiasts, enjoying our embarrassment of riches, can sometimes forget to look eastward. On my recent venture to Escondido, I revisited Jacked Up...
Nobody rains on Burgeon’s 6th anniversary parade
Neither rain, nor sleet, nor…well, it was just rain. A lot of it. But there’s no stopping the Burgeon Beer Company in Carlsbad from having...
Meet North County’s newest brewery: Inzane Brewing in Vista
Being a member of the Vista community is something lifelong Vistan Mike Zane, owner and head brewer of Inzane Brewing, takes seriously....
San Diego Beer Week ends with celebration at The Lodge
The San Diego Brewers Guild on Nov. 13 celebrated the end of Beer Week 2022 on the Arroyo Terrace at The Lodge at Torrey Pines....
Two4Brew couple visits San Diego on nationwide ‘beer run’
The beer run is a time-honored tradition immortalized in films such as Smokey and the Bandit and Strange Brew. The beer run has elevated into...
Del Mar’s Viewpoint Brewing a different brewhouse experience
The loved ones of craft beer enthusiasts become accustomed to long drives through industrial areas to find yet another “unique” warehouse brewery. They are further...
Celebrating San Diego brews, music and lifestyle at BeerX
For San Diegans of a certain age, 91X radio has supplied the soundtrack of our lives. Many of those same San Diegans also came to...
Sharing is caring at Vista’s CoLab Public House
I Like Beer the Podcast joined the CoLab Public House for its soft opening on July 22 in Vista. The venture, spearheaded by Joe Deutsch,...
Whales spotted at Wolf Larsen’s Alehouse
For beer enthusiasts, hard-to-find beers are called “whales.” The rarest of the rare, “white whales,” are an allusion to Herman Melville’s classic novel, “Moby Dick.”...
Celebrating Fruhlingsfest with Eppig Brewing
Oktoberfest is well renowned and well celebrated, but alas it only comes once a year. But we have found a way to celebrate early in...
