Starting at 5 p.m. tomorrow, 20 local beers made using fresh ‘wet’ hops will be pouring at O’Brien’s Pub.
Two of those beers are casks coming from O’Brien’s Pub owner Tom Nickel’s Julian brewery, Nickel Beer Co. The first is a Neo Mexicanus-dry hopped pale ale. The other is Green Truck IPA, featuring Zeus hops from Nopalito Farm in the base brew as well as the dry hop.
Below are the draft options. Many of them are just 5-gallon kegs, so not all will be available throughout the weekend:
2 Kids Local Harvest Pale Ale – 5.8%
Chinook from SD Golden Hop Farm
Amplified Aleworks Wet Hopped American Summer Pale – 4.2%
Cascade and Chinook from SD Golden Hop Farm and Goat House Farms
Ballast Point Little Italy Splash Zone (Strong Pale) – 6%
Crystal and Centennial from SD Golden Hop Farm
Border X Nopalitos Ale (Hoppy American Wheat) – 5.2%
Chinook and Cascade from Nopalito Farm
Chuckalek Hopatul Farms Wet Hop Rye Pale Ale – 6.5%
Cascade and Chinook from Hopatul Farms
Fallbrook Broken Arrow XPA – 6.7%
Cascade, Nugget and Chinook from SD Golden Hop Farm
Insurgente Lupulillo Rivera (Pale Ale) – 6.1%
Chinook and Cascade from Nopalito Farm
Intergalactic Andromeda IPA – 6.8%
Cascade and Chinook from Nopalito Farm
Monkey Paw Same Day XPA – 5.2%
Cascade and Chinook from Nopalito Farm
Monkey Paw Fan Belt IIPA – 8.5%
Zeus from Nopalito Farm
Monkey Paw/Twisted Manzanita Danger Chimp (American Red) – 6.2%
Chinook, Crystal & Nugget from SD Golden Hop Farm, Cascade & Chinook from Nopalito Farm to dry hop
Nickel Beer Blair’s Not Bitter (Nitrogen Tapped Best Bitter) – 4.1%
Glacier with a little Nugget for Dry Hopping from SD Golden Hop Farm
Nickel Beer Star B Fresh Hop Pale – 5.7%
Chinook, Crystal, Magnum, Nugget and Neo Mexicanus from Star B Ranch
Nugget and Julian Gold from Hopportunity Farm in Julian
Wild Town Hall Hops (thought to be Cluster from the 1880s)
Nickel Beer My Way Fresh Hop IPA – 6.3%
Chinook and Cascade from Nopalito Farm, dry hopped with Crystal from Star B Ranch
Nickel Beer Green Truck Fresh Hop Double IPA – 8.0%
Zeus from Nopalito Farm for brewing and dry hopping
Rough Draft Eraser IPA – 7.0%
Cascade from SD Golden Hop Farm
South Park Nopalito Red – 5.0%
Crystal, Nugget and Zeus from Nopalito Farm
Valley Center Quail Run Belgian-style Ale – 5.6%
Centennial and Gargoyle grown by Valley Center Brewing