Weekly Wednesday Event Post 9/28 – 10/5
A quiet weekend approaches us. West Coaster will be attending our first ever GABF on Thursday – Sunday. The October issue of West Coaster is on delivery trucks presently with full distribution to be...
View ArticleWeekly Wednesday Event Post 10/5 – 10/12
Here are the next week’s event highlights. Check out our Event Calendar for more. 10/5 Wednesday, 5P — Sierra Nevada and Friends Night @ Urge Gastropub A fantastical feature presentation of the many...
View ArticleWeekly Wednesday Event Post 1/18 – 1/25
Thanks to the plethora of upcoming beer events, our Event Calendar is now populated! Here’s our picks of awesome events in the next 7 days. 1/18 Wednesday, 530P – ~830P – Beer Nerdz Blind Tasting for...
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Pick 5: Five Friday, May 18 Events
Five great Friday events, divided by neighborhood. Ballast Point founder Jack White (right) with Carl DeMaio in front of the City Council, May 18 2010 LIBERTY STATION – May 18 = Ballast Point Day @...
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Weekend Beer Forecast 8/3 – 8/5
Although this weekend is a relatively quiet one in the beer world, I submit this handful of events for your consideration. Friday 8/3 Urge 2nd Anniversary Rancho Bernardo’s beer powerhouse is...
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Urge Gastropub Owners to Open Brewpub in Vista
UPDATE 5/17: Mike Rodriguez, the award-winning brewer who recently left The Lost Abbey/Port Brewing after four years, has been brought in as a brewing consultant for Project X Brewing, the new brewery...
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Urge Named Small Business of the Year in Rancho Bernardo
Even politicians know great craft beer when they see it. California Assemblyman Brian Maienschein named Urge Gastropub in Rancho Bernardo the 2013 Small Business of the Year for the 77th Assembly...
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The Most Expensive Real Estate in San Diego?
AS NUMBER OF BREWERIES EXPANDS, DISTRIBUTORS TRY TO MATCH PACE Prohibitively expensive San Diego real estate has not deterred emerging breweries from opening, and San Diego County is on pace to break...
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Bourbon County Black Out Friday @ Churchill’s
Churchill’s Pub & Grill, one of Draft Magazine’s illustrious 100 top American beer bars, is throwing Goose Island’s Bourbon County Stout 2013 on tap with a few extra Goose Island draft and bottle...
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1st Annual San Diego Sriracha Festival This Saturday
Photo courtesy of FoodGPS.com Coming up this weekend is something a little different in the land of seemingly-perpetual beer festivals: a food, beer & drink event focusing on Sriracha hot sauce....
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Brothers Provisions expanding to include Mason Coffee Works
Since opening in an inauspicious business center, Brothers Provisions (16451 Bernardo Center Drive, Rancho Bernardo) has become a cult favorite among North County’s craft-centric sect. The...
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Q&A: Marty Mendiola
Owner & Brewmaster, Second Chance Beer Company He’s been a fixture in the San Diego brewing scene for more than a decade-and-a-half, won countless national and international awards for his to-style...
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Best Beer Futures: North
Plans for the Urge Gastropub being constructed in Oceanside Over the month of September, we’ll single out some of the most promising upcoming brewing industry projects on deck in San Diego County. With...
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First Look: Urge Gastropub Oceanside & Mason Ale Works
When Urge Gastropub opened in Rancho Bernardo in 2010, it did so before culinarily focused neighborhood spots with robust craft beer programs were the norm. Being such an exception, there were few...
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Bitter Brothers Brewing to debut January 2
Looks like the New Year will feature plenty of new San Diego beer…immediately! Right after Mason Ale Works (the brewing component of Oceanside’s Urge Gastropub and Whiskey Bar brewpub) announced it...
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First drafts at Urge Oceanside
The bar area at Urge Gastropub and Whiskey Bank in Oceanside Ten o’clock on a Friday night with the hostess station handing out two-hour wait-times to would-be diners. This was the scene on Urge...
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Best Beer Futures: North
Indian Joe Brewing Co. owner Max Moran stands in front of his newly acquired building Twice a year, I assess the landscape of in-process brewery-owned projects and pick a few that I feel are the most...
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Oceanside Brewing is namesake city’s eighth brewery
For a number of years, two breweries—Oceanside Ale Works and Breakwater Brewing Company—called the City of Oceanside home. Then, seemingly overnight, the North County coastal community found itself in...
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The best new San Diego breweries of 2016…so far
We’ve reached the halfway mark of 2016. Over the past six months, roughly a dozen new breweries have opened (including one that had been producing beer without a tasting room for a couple of years)....
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Urge rolling out unique anniversary beers
AleSmith/Urge Velvet Echo, Toolbox Pinkies Up and Mother Earth Very Bad Things will be served during Urge Gastropub’s anniversary weekend, July 29-31 in Rancho Bernardo There’s something that happens...
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