Share to Facebook Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin Several decades ago, it was relatively easy to visit all of the top breweries in the San Diego area. Times certainly have changed. “Pity the San Diego-bound tourist hoping to visit all of the region’s best breweries,” says veteran beer journalist Peter Rowe, who writes a beer column for the San Diego Union-Tribune .
“You’re about 40 years too late.” When Rowe began writing about the local beer industry in 1995, “you could have surveyed the entire sudsy scene in a leisurely week, popping into the dozen or so commercial breweries,” he says. “Today, the county is home to roughly 150 breweries.
A comprehensive guide to San Diego's craft beer temples would expand to encyclopedia length — and still miss the latest development in this ever-fermenting field.” San Diego beer journalist Peter Rowe enjoys a cold one at North Park Beer’s brewpub in Bankers Hill. .
.. [+] Lynn Hanson-Rowe Beer enthusiasts visiting San Diego may be wise to heed Rowe’s expert advice.
Here are five favorite breweries he recommends and his comments about each. Pizza Port of Carlsbad, Solana Beach, Bressi Ranch, Ocean Beach and Imperial Beach. “You can find better pizza than the doughy pies served here.
But beer? I can’t think of a better place — anywhere. While San Diego brewers annually perform well at the nation’s top beer competition, the Great American Beer Festival, no one outscores Pizza Port. Since 1994, these brewpub.
