Walter Macalma

Review of AleSmith Brewing Company

Alesmith carries weight here in San Diego. Maybe n...

Alesmith carries weight here in San Diego. Maybe not as iconic as Stone or as progressive as Ballast Point or as ambitious as Green Flash. It s just good beer and it sells itself, but the space here shows how Californians love to day drink.

Because of our year round good weather we take advantage of drinking outside. Without food on premesis they bring in food trucks, usually multiple because variety is the spice of life.

This place is large, unlike many places who expand and expand and expand, Alesmith laid down the infrastructure and groundwork for the future capacity. They are also keeping San Diego AF, as local as it gets with the tribute room to our HoF Tony Gwynn as well as the 394 beer in his honor. It s a pale ale and not the normal IPA s we are known for.



There is even an even more private password protected bourbon aged beer space. I don t want to necessarily call it a speakeasy, but it s definitely not the Dug Out. As one of the bartenders for the info as it changes. I love beer and I love bourbon and I love how 7 grand lets select breweries use their private barrels to age beer, but I try and separate my loves because tasting a bourbon barrel aged beer makes me want bourbon, which they don t have and then I want to leave to get that. Anyhow. Great brewery, worth of it s reputation as being a little more grounded a SD brewery than some.