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PHOTOGRAPH BY KEVIN HOPKINS (MOTHER EARTH BREW CO.)
BY IAN ANDERSON
Northwest and mountain regions — fi ve and a half states so far. T at half state, by the way, is Northern Cali-
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ALPINE
Mediterraneo: Monday-Saturday, 4-6:30pm: $3 domestic draft beer, $5 house wine. Sunday, 2-9:30pm: $3 domestic draft beer, $5 house wine.
CITY HEIGHTS
The Hideout: Daily, 5-7pm: $3 wells, $3-$5 drafts
Nate’s Garden Grill: Daily, 4-6pm: $1 off cocktails and wine.
Til-Two: Daily, 4-7pm: $1 off wells and drafts. DOWNTOWN SAN DIEGO
Garage Kitchen + Bar: Monday, 4-7pm: 51% off all appetizers and select drinks. Excludes bottles of wine, pre- mium, and super premium liquor. 7pm-close: $5 well mules. Tuesday, 4-7pm: 51% off all appetizers and select drinks. Excludes bottles of wine, pre- mium, and super premium liquor. 7pm-close: Prizes for top three teams. $15 bottles of wine, $12 burger & beer. $2 carnitas tacos all day. Wednesday, 4-7pm: 51% off all appetizers and select drinks. Excludes bottles of wine, pre- mium, and super premium liquor. 7pm-close: $2 off any whiskey, tequila, or fernet. Thursday, 4-7pm: 51% off all appetizers and select drinks. Excludes bottles of wine, premium, and super premium liquor. 7pm-close: $4 drafts, $3 bottles. Friday-Saturday, 4-7pm: 51% off all appetizers and select drinks. Excludes bottles of wine, premium, and super premium liquor. Sunday, 4-7pm: 51% off all appetizers and select drinks. Excludes bottles of wine, pre- mium, and super premium liquor. 7pm-close: $4 fireball, Jameson and Firestone 805 16-oz cans.
The Shout House: Monday, 7pm- close: $4 Shock Top drafts, $4 Jame- son, $4 Fireball. Cover: $5 after 8pm. Tuesday, 7pm-close: $3 Karl Strauss bottles, $5 Smirnoff drinks, $3 fish tacos. Cover: $5 after 8pm. Wednes- day, 7pm-close: $3 domestic bottles. $5 wings. Cover: $5 after 8pm. Thurs- day, 7pm-close: $3 Miller Lite drafts, $5 Red Bull bomb shots, $12 Miller High Life buckets. Cover: $5 after 8pm. Friday, 6-7pm: 1/2 OFF ALL DRINKS & Cover: $5 after 8pm. Saturday, 6pm- close: $15 keep-the-glass Hurricanes with $12 refills, $8 keep-the-glass Big Ass Beer with $6 refills. Cover: $5 after 8pm. Sunday, 7pm-close: $3 Budweiser drafts, $4 wells, $3 shot special, $1 off appetizers (except fries). No cover for industry, Cover: $5 after 8pm.
GOLDEN HILL
Turf Supper Club: Friday-Sunday, noon-5pm: $1 off beer, wine, cocktails. $5 burger, chicken sandwich, hot links + chips.
KEARNY MESA
Proud Mary’s Southern Bar & Grill at the Ramada: Daily, 4-6pm: $4 select drafts, $4 bour- bon slushies, $5 premium wells. $5 appetizers.
LINDA VISTA
Sidecar: Monday, 3-7pm: $2 off everything. Tuesday, 3-7pm: $1 off
San Diego, Idaho Earlier this month, Mother Earth Brewing Co. (206 Main Street, Vista) opened a tasting room in the town of Nampa, Idaho, about 20 miles west of Boise. That’s because in August the brewery fi red up a 40,000-square-foot production facility in Nampa, capable of brewing over 100,000 barrels per year. By comparison, Mother Earth’s main brewery in Vista can make about 40,000 barrels. So, why Idaho? “T at is the
million-dollar question, literally and figuratively,” says Mother Earth vice president Kevin Hopkins. “It has transportation corridors that work all the way across the U.S.,” he adds, not- ing the Idaho brewery is already shipping Mother Earth cans and bottles throughout the Pacifi c
drinks. Wednesday, 3-7pm: $1 off drinks. All day: $5 off well mules. Saturday, All day: $6 off pitchers.
MIRAMAR
Brewski’s Bar: Monday, 4-8pm: One-pound wing basket with choice of sauce $6.75. Tuesday, 4-8pm: $3 Corona and Dos Equis, $5 Patron shots. Three tacos for $3. Wednesday, 4-10pm: $2 off appetizers. Thursday, 4-8pm: $4 Jack & Coke. Friday, 4-8pm: $4 Fireball. Saturday, 4-8pm: $4 Jager Bomb. Sunday, 4-8pm: $1 off all beer.
MISSION HILLS
Brooklyn Girl: Sunday, 4-6pm: 25% off bottle of bubbly; happy hour oysters all night (or till we run out).
The Regal Beagle: Monday-Thurs- day, 3-6pm: $1 off everything. Friday, 12-6pm: $1 off everything.
Toma Sol Tavern: Monday-Friday, 4-6 pm: $4 drafts, $1-off wine by the glass. $6 all appetizers.
MISSION VALLEY
The Amigo Spot at Kings Inn: Monday-Friday, 3-6pm: $3 domestic bottled beer, $4 premium Mexican beers, $5 well drinks, house wine, 16oz draft, $6.50 24oz draft, $7 16oz mar-
fornia. “From a craſt -beer perspective,” Hopkins asserts, “Northern California really is its own thing. It’s massive.” For much of this year, Mother Earth was
already shipping to these areas — including Idaho — from San Diego, to get a headstart establishing the brand. “The reality is we started launching markets in 2016,” Hop- kins says. T e real benefi t of establishing production in
Idaho will be seen in the fi rst quarter of 2017, as Mother Earth begins moving eastward. Hopkins says they are scheduling distribution to Denver, Chicago, and as far as Boston. “We’re shipping beer all over the place. We’re just dividing it north to south instead of leapfrogging from coast to coast the way other breweries have done.” T at comment refers to the recent spate of San
Diego breweries building production breweries in Virginia to facilitate East Coast shipping. Virginia governor Terry McAuliff e even visited San Diego to personally lobby Ballast Point to build there. Hopkins says there was no such activity on
behalf of Idaho, but state and local offi cials have been easy to work with and the community has been receptive. While the new facility is much larger than Mother Earth’s Vista brewery, the
garita, $9 22oz margarita, $13 32oz margarita.
Bully’s East: Monday-Friday, 4-6:30pm: $3.50 bottled beer, $4 draft beer, $5 wine, $6 cocktails, martinis, margaritas, mules.
NORTH PARK
The Air Conditioned Lounge: Monday-Friday, 5-9pm: $5 draft beer, call spirits. Saturday-Sunday, 7-8pm: $5 draft beer, call spirits.
Bar Pink: Daily, 4-8pm: $1 off drafts and calls. 12-8pm: $2 Pabst, $3 wells.
OCEAN BEACH
South Beach Bar & Grill: Mon- day-Friday, 3-6pm: $1 off draft beer and wine by glass, $4 mimosas, select cocktails $5. Select tacos $3, select appetizers half off.
Winstons Beach Club: Daily, 1-5pm: $3 wells. $1 off all drinks.
OLD TOWN
Casa Guadalajara: Monday-Friday, 4-7pm: $3.95 house margaritas, $1 off beer.
Old Town Mexican Café: Mon- day-Friday, 3-7pm, 10pm-close: 1/2- off well drinks & selected appetizers.
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plainly a cheaper state to live in than CA. While the routes out of there are marginally better than here in SD, it isn’t shipping that drives the business. Idaho needn’t recruit
Mother Earth’s Nampa, Idaho, brewery went online in August.
new tasting room is modest compared to its Vista Village taproom, meant to off er beer to the community rather than be a satellite desti- nation. “We’re not building a Disneyland-type facility,” he says. “We built a large, robust, fully functional brewery.”
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Website comment by Visduh Yeah, right. Wade through all the jargon and jive, and you come down to the basics. Idaho is just
PACIFIC BEACH
Moray’s Lounge: Monday-Friday, 3-6pm: $5 drafts, $5.50 wells, $6 wine. $10 appetizers.
The Patio on Lamont Street: Daily, 3pm-6pm, 10pm-12am: 1/2-off wine by the glass, $5 drafts, $6 cool cocktails.
RANCHO BERNARDO
The Cork and Craft: Tuesday-Sun- day, 3-6pm: $1-off beer, $5 house wine. $7 chicken wings, brussel sprouts.
The Bistro: Monday-Friday, 4-7pm: $4 domestic beers, $5 imported beers. $7 all appetizers. Saturday-Sunday, 5-7pm: $4 domestic beers, $5 imported beers. $7 all appetizers.
RANCHO PENASQUITOS
Cheers Bar & Grill: Monday, 10am- 6pm: $3 domestic pints, $3 domestic bottles, $3.75 wells. Tuesday-Saturday,
businesses; it gets plenty with no recruitment effort at all. T e state is tax averse, light on regulation, and the locals don’t expect a huge wage. You can now see what the California business cli- mate is doing to our pride and joy, the craſt and micro brewing industries. T ey start here and then move away to escape the high costs, taxes, and regulations.
Some years ago one of the local success stories,
Buck Knives, moved from El Cajon to Post Falls, Idaho. T e reasons freely given were the lower wage costs that came with a lower cost of living, less regulation, and a less hostile environment. Get used to this sort of thing; you’ll see it happen many more times.
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10am-6pm: $3 domestic pints, $3.25 domestic bottles, $3.75 wells.
Pitchers Sports Bar: Monday- Friday, 5-8pm: $3.50 beers.
SAN MARCOS
Cowshed Bar and Grill: Daily, 3-7pm: $.50 off everything.
Inland Tavern: Monday-Friday, 4-6pm: $2 off wine, $3 domestic beers, $3.50 wells, $4 craft beer. $4-$6 appetizers.
SHELTER ISLAND
Bali Hai: Monday-Friday, 3–6pm:$1- off beer, house wine, and progressive mai tais starting at $5.25 (add $1 every hour). 15% off all appetizers.
Fiddler’s Green Restaurant: Daily, 5-7pm: $4 house wine by the glass, $5 margarita, drink-of-the-night.
Humphreys Backstage Music Club: Daily, 5-7pm: 1/2-off select
drinks & discounted menu items (excludes holiday/concert nights).
SPRING VALLEY
The Bancroft: Daily, 10am-7pm: $3 domestics and wells.
De Oro Mine Co: Daily, Noon- 7pm: $3 domestic beers and well cock- tails, $5 beer and shot.
Shooters Cocktails: Monday- Saturday, 3-6pm: $2.50 domestic beer and wells.
UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS
Beerfish: Monday-Friday, 3-6pm: $2 off select beer and wine. $1 oysters.
Cafe 21: Daily, 3-6pm: Half-off beer, sangria, mimosas, 21%-off all other drinks.
The Lancers Cocktails: Daily, 10am-2am: $3.50 well drinks and domestic beers.
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