San Diego Reader March 30, 2017 43
BY IAN ANDERSON
with beet juice to invoke the experience of its namesake cake. Nitro beers are carbonated with nitrogen gas
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SDReader.com/drinks ALLIED GARDENS
San Diego Brewing Company:
Monday-Friday, 4-6pm: $4 selected house beer, house wine. 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.
BALBOA PARK
The Prado Restaurant: Tuesday- Thursday, 4-6pm, 8-10pm: $5.50 local draft beer, Prado wells, house mar- garita, lounge chardonnay, cabernet, strawberry margarita, sauvignon blanc, Spanish blend wine, Prado mule. Fri- day, 4-6pm: $5.50 local draft beer, Prado wells, house margarita, lounge chardonnay, cabernet, strawberry margarita, sauvignon blanc, Spanish blend wine, Prado mule.
BANKERS HILL
Artisan Bento: Monday-Saturday, 3-6pm: $3 Asahi draft $4 nigori, fla- vored sake, $5 white/red wine.
Wet Stone Wine Bar and Cafe:
Tuesday-Thursday, 5-6pm: $5/glasses, $20/bottles select wines and both sangrias, $6 rotating globally inspired small plates. Friday, Sunday, 4-9pm: $5/glasses, $20/bottles select wines and both sangrias, $6 rotating globally inspired small plates.
BARRIO LOGAN
MishMash: Monday-Friday, 3-6pm: $4 craft beer, $5 wine. Sunday, 9-1pm: Open for brunch with $4 mimosas.
BAY HO
Spice & Soul: Monday-Friday, 3-6pm: $5 elsa bianchi wine by the glass, fried ravioli served w/ marina dipping sauce, $6 house-made potato chips w/ blue cheese crumbles & jalapeno jelly, $7 spinach & artichoke dip served w/ toasted pita bread.
BAY PARK
Bay Park Fish Company: Mon- day-Saturday, 3-6pm: $1 off house wine, $2 off draft beer.
Do not pour gentle into that good pint San Diego beer hit another packaging milestone in January, when a couple of local brewer- ies released nitrogenized beer in bottles and cans for the fi rst time. Modern Times (3725 Greenwood Street, Sports Arena) kicked it off with a nitro version of its Black House coff ee stout fl avored with cocoa and coco- nut. A week later, Ballast Point (9045 Carroll Way, Miramar) delivered Red Velvet, a unique golden oatmeal stout fl avored with chocolate and colored
The High Dive: Monday-Friday, 3-6pm: $2 off select drafts.
BONITA
La Luz Ultra Lounge: Tuesday- Friday, 5-7pm: Half off all drinks.
CARDIFF-BY-THE-SEA
Chart House: Monday-Friday, 3-6:30pm: $4 import & specialty draft beers, well spirits, $6 wine by the glass, cocktails, $7 martinis. $4 fried artichokes, hummus trio, truffle skinny fries. $5 ahi nachos, lettuce wraps, spinach & artichoke dip, $6 kim chee calamari, firecracker shrimp, mediterranean chicken pita. $7 fish tacos, prime rib sliders, shrimp tacos.
CARLSBAD
Argyle Steakhouse/Golf Club- house: Daily, 3-6pm: $6 drafts, $8 house wine, well drinks.
Twenty/20 Grill & Wine Bar:
Daily, 3-6pm: $2 off specialty cocktails, $4 well drinks, draft beers, $6 house wines. Half-off select starters.
CARMEL MOUNTAIN
Conway’s Irish Pub: Daily, 10am- 8pm: $2.75 domestic drafts and bottles, wells, $8.50 domestic pitchers.
Fish District: Daily, 2-5pm: $1 off beer and wine.
Oggi’s Pizza & Brewing Co.:
Monday-Friday, 3-6pm: $1 off pints, wells, and house wines, $12 house pitchers. Sunday, 11am-9pm: $1 off pints, wells, and house wines, $12 house pitchers.
more than straight carbon dioxide. T ey benefi t from tiny bubbles, which give their eff ervescence a creamier mouthfeel than the fi zz of carbon- ation. In bars, such beers typically pour from a dedicated tap affi xed with a restrictor plate that agitates the beer, releasing the bubbles to produce the creamy texture and foamy head. Guinness famously inserted a plastic widget
into nitro bottles and cans in the late ’80s to eff ec- tively package its stout with nitro and achieve the agitation of the bubbles in the beer when opened. Like Colorado’s Left Hand Brewing, which became the fi rst American craſt brewery to package nitro beer in 2014, Modern Times and Ballast Point have packaged their nitrogenized beer without a widget. But they do off er instructions. T e Modern
Times can advises, “For best results pour hard.” Red Velvet’s shrink-wrapped bottles suggest you “Pour with purpose,” placing the bottle upside-
CARMEL VALLEY
Arterra: Daily, 3-7pm: $6 house wines, wells, Pivo Pils, $7 perfect margarita, $8 Three Olives vodka. $4 shoestring fries, $6 shishito peppers, $8 roasted olives, Korean grilled chicken wings, crudite, empanada, $9 ribs, $2-off all sushi rolls (after 5pm).
CHULA VISTA
Galley at the Marina: Monday- Saturday, 3–6pm: $4 beer, wine, and well drinks. $1.99 chips and salsa, $5.99 potato skins, 2 tacos, black bean nachos, $6.99 beef angus sliders (3) and fries, hot wings, $8.99 fresh steamed clams and mussels.
CITY HEIGHTS
The Hideout: Daily, 5-7pm: $3 wells, $3-$5 drafts.
Nate’s Garden Grill: Tuesday- Friday, 4-6pm: $5 beers, $20 bottles of wine, $1 off all wine glasses and wine cocktails. .
Til-Two: Daily, 4-7pm: $1 off wells, drafts, and specialty drinks.
CLAIREMONT
Fat Tony’s Pizza: Monday-Thurs- day, 4-8pm: $3 beer, $10 pitcher. $5 12” pizza and 8 pc chicken wings.
COLLEGE AREA
4.0 Deli: Daily, 2-6pm: $6 “cheap” pitchers of beer, $10 “good” pitchers of beer.
Junk House Gastro-Pub: Mon- day, 2-6pm: $9 select flatbreads, $4
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down over your glass. Each of the breweries followed this up with video posts to social media, showing how a hard pour produces a foamy
you would get bubbles and foam pouring out of your glass. So when you follow the “pour hard” instructions, there’s an almost exhilarat- ing moment when the foam threatens to overflow — but it never does. Both nitro beers were char-
Screencap from Modern Times’ video “tutorial on how to pour it like a champion”
head and cascading eff ect, wherein bubbles fall down the sides of the glass, rather than up like regular carbonation. Of course, if you poured a standard car- bonated beer, say a pilsner or IPA this way,
Smirnoff cocktails. Tuesday, 2-6pm: $4 Jose Cuervo margaritas, $3 specialty tacos. Thursday, 2-6pm: $3 specialty tacos, $9 flatbreads, all 36 draft beers $6.
CORONADO
Bistro d’Asia: Daily, 3-6pm: $3.75 domestic bottled beer, $3.95 Kirin Ichiban draft, $3.50 Gekkeikan sake (served warm), $4.95 wells, $5.50 La Terre chardonnay, La Terre caber- net, $5.75 sake-tini. $5.50 California roll, $6.50 spicy tuna roll, $6.95 crispy calamari.
Yummy Sushi: Monday-Friday, 2:30-5pm: $3 select draft beers, wine, small sake. All food menu items 25% off.
DEL CERRO
KNB Wine Cellars: Daily, 12-6pm: $4 draft beer, $5 house wine. DEL MAR
Mia Francesca: Monday-Friday, 3-6pm: $2.50 bottled beer, $4 drafts, $5 house wine, prosecco, $7 wells. Saturday-Sunday, 12-6pm: $2.50 bottled beer, $4 drafts, $5 house wine, prosecco, $7 wells.
acterized as a limited run by their respective breweries, so San Diego nitro beers on local shelves may not last long. How- ever, Nitro Black House proved popular enough that Modern Times released a second run in February, and Belching Beaver (980 Park Center Drive, Vista) has plans to release a nitro ver- sion of its Beavers Milk Stout.
T at one’s packaging instructs, “When pouring nitro, pour straight up!”
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Searsucker Del Mar: Daily, 4:30-6:30pm: $5 beer, $6 wine, $7 house infusions, $8 cocktails. $4 house fries, $5 soft pretzel, hummus, mini chocolate s’mores bar, $8 beef meatballs.
DOWNTOWN SAN DIEGO
Coyote Ugly Saloon: Monday- Thursday, Sunday, 4-7pm: $2 PBR, $3 domestic bottles, $4 import bottles, $5 nation brand drafts, wells, $6 local drafts. Half off appetizers. Friday- Saturday, 4-7pm: $2 PBR, $3 domestic bottles, $4 import bottles, $5 nation brand drafts, wells, $6 local drafts. Half off appetizers. 7-9pm: $3 Coors Light, Corona, $5 Fireball, Jameson.
Dublin Square: Monday-Friday, 2-7pm: $3 beer bottles, $4 wells, $5 domestic drafts, $6 imported drafts, house wine, irish coffee, specialty martinis, $6.50 craft drafts. $4-9 appetizers.
Grant Grill: Monday-Thursday, Sunday, 4–7pm: $6 red, white, or sparkling wine, a selection of local brews, cocktails made with New Amsterdam vodka, $9 straight up. $2 off lounge offerings such as soft pretzel ($5), parmesan fries ($7), and grilled skirt steak ($18).
Maryjane’s: Monday-Friday, 4:20-7pm: $4.20 local drafts, $5.20 well cocktails, wine, champagne, and bottled beer. $4.20 select appetizers.
Stout Public House: Daily, 4-8pm: $4 select drafts, 50 cents-$1 off all other drafts and bottled beer. Half-off wings, calamari, chicken tenders.
Striders Clublounge: Monday- Friday, 3-6pm: half-off draft beers, house wine, cocktails. Half-off select small plates.
The Whiskey House: Daily, 4-7pm: $1 add a shot of house whiskey to any beer, $4 beers, $5 house wine, cocktails. $.50 spicy Vietnamese wings, $1 cup of soup, $2 hand-cut fries, $3 scotch eggs $4 house-made brat, $5 chorizo mac ‘n’ cheese, kale salad, $6 TWH burger, shrimp cocktail.
EAST VILLAGE
Bottega Americano: Daily, 3-6pm: $5 wine and drafts, $6 wells, $20 carafes.
Café Chloe: Monday-Friday, 3:30- 5:30pm: $6 beers, $8 house wines. $6-7 cup of soup du jour or warm marinated olives, little gems salad with brioche and house vinaigrette, pommes and frites with trio of dips.
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