Got an interesting story about your drinking adventures or love the new brewery in your neighborhood? Reach out! We want to hear about it.Explore and enjoy Stone beer in a relaxed, intimate setting framed by our signature architectural elements of concrete, stone, metal, reclaimed wood, plant life and natural lighting. Stone Company Store - Oceanside is a tasting room and retail store with an outdoor patio in a former pottery shop in downtown Oceanside. Search for the I Like Beer Podcast on your favorite podcast platform or stream it directly from For more photos follow on Instagram, and while you are online follow Cheers! North County on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram too! South O Brewing has a vision and they are seeing it come true right from day one. Everyone had a favorite beer already (we asked). It did indeed feel like a community celebration. Bicyclers rolled in off the Coast Highway and neighbors strolled in filling the space. Live music, food trucks and plenty of people. The Graves House IPA offered all the bitterness and citrusy goodness expected of the style.īack to the South O Brewing Grand Opening. No worries for those who love West Coast IPAs. Unlike the palate wreckers of yesteryear, Horne NEIPA was a crushable, refreshing beer, balanced and flavorful.
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Brewed with Galaxy, Centennial and Mosaic hops, Horne NEIPA was full of tropical flavor but with a dialed back bitterness. “Historically beers exist because somebody did something great, and owe it to them to recreate and replicate the styles,” Fletcher said.įor IPA lovers, South O offers a number of beers but our team favorite was Horne NEIPA.
Malo, brewed with floor-malted Bohemian and Munich malts, received our highest praise - a Shawshank beer. These were as good of beers as we’ve been lucky enough to enjoy in our years of brewery touring and podcasting. Malo Czech Pilsner and Horne New England IPA. Two beers, in particular, stole the show: St. We have attended soft openings and grand openings and chosen not to comment on the beers knowing that brewers are still figuring out brewing at scale in the early days. Photo courtesy of Jeff SpanierĮvery beer we sampled, which is to say all the beer, proved excellent. Other beers, such as Graves House West Coast IPA and Beach Club Blonde are named after iconic Oceanside landmarks or neighborhoods. Many of their beers are named after streets in the community around them. Another, Ditmar, an Australian Sparkling Ale weighing in at a light 3.6%. One twist, a porter ale, Tremont, inspired by Turkish Delight. Bringing in Fletcher as head brewer helped them scale up production, fine-tune recipes and add some new beers to their menu.įletcher shares the founder’s vision of serving true-to-style beers with a few twists available.
The story’s an intriguing one and can be heard in its entirety on our podcast, but none of it would matter if the beers were not up to San Diegan standards.
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Just blocks from their own homes–and the neighbors who had been enjoying a lot of free beer–they built a brewery honoring South O. When the opportunity to open up in the iconic Oceanside College of Beauty building came along, they took it. We could be a real brewery’…and the next day we woke up and asked, ‘Are we still doing this?’” “One night you have too many and you end up thinking we could run a business doing this.” Whitehead interjected, “We thought, ‘Sure we could do this.
“Well, you know how this goes,” Steinmetz continued. They were homebrewing in Whitehead’s garage which allowed them to experiment and rework recipes.
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