44 San Diego Reader April 20, 2017
BY IAN ANDERSON
Carriage House Cocktails & Karaoke: Monday-Friday, 4-7pm: $3.25 draft pints, $3.50 wells, $4 domestic bottles. Complimentary food while it lasts.
Crab Hut: Monday-Friday, 3-7pm: $3 draft beer, $5 house wine, sangria, $10 pitchers, $20 shipwreck. $.50 wings (min. 5), $1 oysters (min 3), $2 onion rings, $3 crab poppers, mixed fries.
Proud Mary’s Southern Bar & Grill at the Ramada: Daily, 4-6pm: $4 select drafts, $4 bour- bon slushies, $5 premium wells. $5 appetizers.
KENSINGTON
Bleu Bohème: Daily, 5-6pm: Half- off au pichet (quarter- or half-liter) wines, martinis, bottled beer, well liquors. $10.95 all appetizers.
Clem’s Tap House: Monday- Friday, 4-6pm: $2-off beer, house wine.
Cucina Sorella: Daily, 4-6pm in the bar: $4 draft beer, $6 sangria, $7 red or white wine, tequila mule. Select appetizers for $5-$7.
Kensington Café: Monday-Fri- day, 4-6pm: $2 off all drinks. $2 off all starters.
LA JOLLA
Beaumont’s: Daily, 11:30am- 6:30pm: $1-off micro craft drafts, $4 bottled beer, $5.25 wells, $6 house wine, margaritas, mojitos, mules, $8 specialty cocktails.
Bella Vista Social Club and Caffe: Tuesday-Friday, 3:30-7pm: $2 off antipasti, $6 craft beer drafts, $5 house wine.
Su Casa: Monday-Friday, 5-7pm: $3.25 mug or Bud Lite draft, $3.50 house wine glass, $4.50-5.50 margarita, single well drinks, $7.95 pitcher of Bud Light. 1/2-off select appetizers.
Whisknladle: Daily, 3-6pm: $5.95 cocktails, red and white wine, beer, glasses of sangria, $25 sangría pitchers. $5.95 Mediterranean inspired tapas.
LA MESA
Bolt Brewing: Monday-Friday, 11am-6pm $1 off drafts.
Brigantine: Daily, 3:30-6:30pm: $1 off well drinks, drafts, featured wines, $5.75 margaritas, $6 happy hour red wine, happy hour white wine.
Alpine Beer’s still a pilgrimage site We’re not four years removed from a time that Alpine Beer Co. (1347 Tavern Road, Alpine) beers were hard to get. Prior to 2013, the small East County brewery only made 1500 barrels per year, and craſt enthusiasts had to drive to Alpine, 30 miles outside San Diego, to get it. Today, Alpine beers may be
found in all 50 states and 26 countries; several are available in six-packs. By the summer, two of its ales will be released in cans. Of course, this has everything
to do with Green Flash Brew- ing (6550 Mira Mesa Boulevard). Since the much larger local com- pany bought Alpine in late 2014,
Casa de Pico: Monday-Friday, 3-7pm: $5.25 margaritas, $1 off beer.
Hoffer’s Cigar Bar: Monday- Saturday, 11am-7pm: $1 off all draft beers, house wine. Sunday, 1-7pm: $1 off all draft beers, house wine.
West Coast Barbecue and Brew: Tuesday-Thursday, 11:30am- 3pm, 8-10pm: $1 off all pints. Friday, 11:30am-3pm, 8-11pm: $1 off all pints. Saturday, 8-11pm: $1 off all pints.
LEMON GROVE
Dirk’s Niteclub: Daily, 4-7pm: $.50 off domestic beers, well drinks, mid- shelf liquor.
LEUCADIA
Solterra Winery & Kitchen: Daily, 3–5:30pm: $5 select glasses of Sonoma country wines.
LIBERTY STATION
Fig Tree Cafe: Monday-Friday, 4-6:30pm: $4 drafts, $5 house wines, $6 appetizers (pommes frites, roasted tomato bruschetta, stuffed jalapeños, chicken wings).
Fireside by the Patio: Monday, 11:30am-9pm: $4 PBR 14oz can, $5 Oskar Blues Mamma’s Little Yella Pils, wells, select wines, $6 mules, make your own margarita. Tuesday-Sunday, 3-6pm: $4 PBR 14oz can, $5 Oskar Blues Mamma’s Little Yella Pils, wells,
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it’s put standout Alpine beers into wide release. Green Flash won’t reveal what percentage of the 91,000 barrels it brewed in 2016 were Alpine beers, but it’s enough that the once tough-to-fi nd Alpine brand now may be found almost everywhere, every day. T at’s a signifi cant change for a business accus-
tomed to seeing demand far outreach supply. “We’ve always maintained the philosophy, ‘Give the public what they want, but just enough to keep them wanting more,’” says Alpine’s head brewer, Shawn McIlhenney. T at’s a tough position to maintain when Green
Flash’s East Coast and West Coast facilities can produce in a week what Alpine’s original micro- brewery makes in a year; however, the subsidiary brewery strives to make the dichotomy work. McIlhenney still spends most of his brew days
in the original brewhouse location, working in small batches to the tune of 2000 barrels a year. T is year, some of that beer will go toward sea- sonal, tasting-room-only bottle releases of fan favorites such as Exponential Hoppiness and Bad Boy double IPAs. However, much of the work comprises research and development, creating limited-quantity brews that continue to give dedi- cated fans good reason to make a pilgrimage to
select wines, $6 mules, make your own margarita.
Solare Ristorante Lounge: Tuesday-Saturday, 3-6:30pm: $2-off cocktails, beers, $5 well drinks, wine. Sunday, 4:30-6:30pm: $2-off cocktails, beers, $5 well drinks, wine.
LINDA VISTA
Clutch Bar: Monday, All day: $1 off all drinks. Tuesday-Friday, 3-7pm: $1 off all drinks.
Sidecar: Monday, 3-7pm: $2 off everything. Tuesday, 3-7pm: $1 off everything. All day: 16-oz cans, $4. Wednesday, 3-7pm: $1 off everything. All day: $5 off well mules. Sunday, All day: $6 off pitchers.
LITTLE ITALY
Bracero Cocina de Raiz: Monday- Friday, 3-6pm: $5.50 all beer, $2 off wine by the glass, $8.50 house wine, and $9.50 specialty cocktails.
Crack Shack: Monday-Wednesday, Friday, 3-6pm: $2 off beer and wine, $3 off specialty cocktails. Thursday, 3-6pm: $2-off beer and wine, $3-off specialty cocktails.
Ironside Fish and Oyster: Mon- day-Friday, 3-6pm: $1 oysters.
Pizza e Birra: Daily, 2:30-6:19pm: $1 off beer, house wine.
Puerto la Boca: Monday-Saturday, 4:30-7:30pm: $3.50 house wine, $4 wells, drafts, $7 house martini. 30% off appetizers. Bar only. Sunday, 4:30- 7:30pm: $3.50 house wine, $4 wells, drafts, $7 house martinis. 30% off appetizers. Bar only.
LOGAN HEIGHTS
Chiquibaby’s Bar: Tuesday- Wednesday, 4:30-6pm: $4 two domes- tic beers, $6 two imported beers.
MIDWAY DISTRICT
Desi’s Bar & Grill: Monday-Friday, 2-7pm: $1 off domestic draft beers, well drinks.
Devine Pastabilities: Monday- Saturday, 4-6pm: Reduced price beer of the day. $1 off all appetizers.
Wine Steals: Tuesday, 4-7pm: $5 for any cask wine, $4 draft beers, $2 off all 30 wines by the glass.
Alpine. “We always want to be on the forefront of what’s new,” McIlhenney explains. “We want to be the trend-setters and not the trend-followers.”
that beer clear, normal…. It was always hazy no matter what we did.” But Nelson’s immediate impact was raising demand for the Nelson Sauvin hop so high, even Alpine struggled to get ahold of it. “T at became a prob- lem,” McIlhenney remembers. “We needed a lot more than we could actually contract.” He reveals that diffi culty secur-
Alpine beers used to be all but impossible to fi nd. This summer they’ll be available in cans.
T at trend-setting goes back to 2005, when
Alpine became one of the fi rst craſt breweries to work with a little-known New Zealand hop variety called Nelson Sauvin. It produced Nel- son rye IPA, a beer also ahead of its time for another reason. “We’ve been making a hazy IPA since well before anybody thought it was cool,” McIlhenney recalls. “We tried our best to make
7-11pm: $4 glasses of sangria. Wednes- day, 4-7pm: $5 for any cask wine, $4 draft beers, $2 off all 30 wines by the glass.
5:30-7:30pm: $5 wine tastings. Thurs- day-Friday, 4-7pm: $5 for any cask wine, $4 draft beers, $2 off all 30 wines by the glass. Saturday, 11am-4pm: $5 mimosa pints.
4-6pm: $10 wine tasting. Sunday, 11am-4pm: $5 mimosa pints. $10 wine flights. No corkage after 4pm.
MIRA MESA
Callahan’s Pub & Brewery: Monday-Friday, 4-7pm: $3.75 select drafts, well drinks, house wine. $1 off appetizers.
MISSION HILLS
The Aero Club: Daily, 2-7pm: $.50 off beers, wells, call drinks.
Cafe Bleu: Daily, 3-6pm: $4 bottled beer, $6 draft beer, select wine by the glass.
The Patio on Goldfinch: Daily, 3-6pm, 10pm-12am: $4-off tequila, $5 draft beers, house spirits, $6 house wine, sangria, cocktails.
Starlite: Monday, Sunday, All day: $8 Starlite mules.
Toma Sol Tavern: Monday-Friday, 4-6 pm: $4 drafts, $1 off wine by the glass. $6 all appetizers.
NATIONAL CITY
Grill House at Big Ben: Daily, 2-9pm: $1 Budweiser. $1 street tacos (adobada, carnitas, chicken).
OCEAN BEACH
The Arizona Cafe: Daily, 4:30- 6:30pm: $3 pints and 20oz beers (excluding Guinness), wells, house wine. $3 bar bites.
BBQ House Bar & Grill: Monday- Friday, 3-6pm: $2 Bud Light pints, $3 well drinks, $2 off draft beer.
Cheswick’s West: Daily, 5-7pm: $3.25 domestic beer bottle, wells.
The Joint: Monday, 2-6pm: All local drafts, $4. Tuesday, 2-6pm: Sculpin pints, $2.50.
Winstons Beach Club: Monday- Saturday, 1-5pm: $3 wells.
ing hop contracts has been a major boon of Alpine’s sale to a larger busi- ness. “Because of the acquisition of our company by Green Flash,” he says, “we’ve opened ourselves up to more buying potential.” Including Nelson. While Alpine
must still ration its Nelson hops sup- ply to sporadic, limited releases of
Nelson IPA in 2017, McIlhenney recently returned from a trip to New Zealand to negotiate for a much larger supply in 2018. “If the contracts come through as we hope, we might actually have it available year round.”
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Wonderland Ocean Pub: Mon- day-Friday, 3-6pm: $1 off drafts, $2 off wine, $3 off mules. $1 off tacos.
OCEANSIDE
Aryana at Holiday Inn: Monday- Friday, 5-8pm: $3 wells, $4 domestics, $5 imported beer, $5.50 house wine.
D’Vino Cafe and Wine Bar: Monday-Friday, 3-6pm: $2.50 domes- tic bottled beer, $3.50 imported bot- tled beer, $5 house wine, margaritas, bloody mary, sangria, $1 off all drafts.
Tremont Street Bar & Grill: Monday-Thursday, 3-6pm: $1-off all drinks. Friday, 3-6pm, 10:30pm-12am: $1-off all drinks. Saturday, 10:30pm- 12am: $1-off all drinks.
OLD TOWN
Barra Barra: Monday-Friday, 4-6pm: $4 drafts, house wine, $5 house margaritas, $6 premium liquors. $3 flatbread tacos, kids eat free with adult entree.
Café Coyote: Monday-Friday, 3:30-6pm: $4 select draft beers, $6 mar- garita, select shots, $7 fruit margarita.
Casa Guadalajara: Monday-Friday, 4-7pm: $1 off beer, $5 refreshing mar- garitas and well drinks.
Sushi Tadokoro: Daily, 5-6:30pm: $2.50-3 draft beer, $3 small hot sake, $4.50 large hot sake, $5 house wine. $2 edamame, $4 gyoza.
PACIFIC BEACH
Ambrogio15: Daily, 4:30-6pm and 8pm-close: $4 local craft beer or Italian wine or focaccia ligure with EVOO and balsamic. $5 mixed Italian olives, $6 Sicilian salad or Parmigiana di Melan- zane (ricotta-filled eggplant), $9 mar- gherita pizza or cheese and charcuterie board or panzerotti stuffed with moz- zarella and tomato.
The Turquoise Café-Bar Europa: Tuesday, 5-7pm: $5 beer and 2 tacos. Wednesday, 5-7pm: Half-off wine bottles. Thursday, 5-7pm: $5 craft cocktails. Friday, 5-7pm: $5 skinny margaritas. Saturday, 5-7pm: $5 craft beer, whiskey.
POINT LOMA
Embargo Grill: Monday-Friday, 3-5pm: $.40 yucca fritta, $.75 chicken
wings, croquettes, empanandas $1.99 camarones mofongo, $3.99 calamari.
Harbor Town Pub: Saturday- Sunday, 8am-1pm: $25 bottomless mimosas or Bloody Marys.
The Wine Pub: Daily, 4-6pm: $4 select wines. $4 select appetizers.
POWAY
Grenadine Lebanese and Mediterranean Cuisine: Daily, 11am-4pm: $8 Any chicken sandwich comes with a side of soup, salad, french fries, or rice (pick one) and a soft drink.
RANCHO BERNARDO
The Cork and Craft: Daily, 2-6pm: $1 off house made beer, house wine. $2 off select appetizers.
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, 10am-6pm: $3 domestic pints, $3.25 domestic bottles, $3.75 wells.
Deli Stop Sports Pub: Daily, 4-7pm: $1 off all craft beer, pitchers.
Pitchers Sports Bar: Daily, 5-8pm: $2 chips and salsa, $4 cheesy bread, pizza bread, $5 small pizza, $6 pitchers burger, nachos.
SOUTH PARK
Del Sur: Monday-Friday, 4-6pm: $3 beers, $4 sangria glass ($20 pitcher), $5 house margaritas ($25 pitcher), $6 cocktails. $6 appetizers such as nachos, ceviche, quesadilla, and guacamole.
Eclipse Chocolate Bar & Bistro: Monday-Friday, 4-7pm: Any beer or wine, $5.
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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