PetCo Park, San Diego, California: 98/100
That's the difference that separates these two excellent parks featuring excellent craft beers.īut with a high floor and a high ceiling, PetCo's no sleeper. Since 109 is closer to most of PetCo, it's more accessible than the Public House.
If 109 had the regularly changing tap list of The Public House, PetCo would trounce AT&T. If San Francisco didn't have The Public House, it would pale in comparison to PetCo. Here's the schedule for the season at Firkin Fridays: Pretty much undoing the only complaint you could really have about the park. Ballast Point also does rare beers on cask on Friday nights over the summer. They have the following beers in bombers and 12-ounce bottles: The line wasn't even that long because of the excellence of the rest of the beer selection in the park. Section 109 has a stand called Craft Beers of the Padres. Might be fun if they did some specials, but having Sculpin on tap around the entire park is awesome.īut there's still one more surprise left to unwrap. If there's a complaint, it's that the Calico is the rarest Ballast Point beer on tap regularly at the park. The Ballast Point Beer Garden serves it on tap and in cans. More than half of the dots on this map have Ballast Point Sculpin on tap. And that's a great selection when you look at it as a whole. So maybe there are a few duds, but not a ton. Karl Strauss Endless Summer Light Lager.And the fact that it's mostly all San Diego craft beer makes it just that much more excellent. This coverage alone puts it right with any ballpark this correspondent has been to. There might be another stand or two there.Īnd it's not like the park has to make any excuses for itself. There are actually some dead zones, but some days the top row beer vendors are shut down - it's hard to know exactly what's going on in the 300s. Now you can only find it on tap in Hodads, the burger joint that spans two levels around 219/319.īut that's fine because Ballast Point Sculpin. In fact, there seems to have been some sort of deal with Ballast Point which has pushed San Diego's own Stone Brewery out of every vendor save two. And Ballast Point Sculpin on tap is one of life's better joys. That's an important thing to remember when you go to San Diego's PetCo Park because Ballast Point Sculpin is on tap everywhere in San Diego's PetCo Park.
We opted for a beer crawl at three local breweries followed by time on the beach–the perfect way to destress after the drive from L.A.Ballast Point Sculpin is significantly better from the tap than the bottle in this writer's estimation. Soak it up on outdoor patios or in taprooms that open wide to let in the salt breeze. There are several breweries scattered around the Ocean Beach neighborhood, but the real attraction is the sun, surf, and street culture. You can walk within many of the city’s beer neighborhoods or take a ride share. We decided to divide and conquer, splitting up metro San Diego’s brew regions by neighborhood, then splitting pints and flights so we could try a little beer from a lot of breweries. With just under 200 breweries in the county, there was no way we could see everything-but we were determined to make a dent in the city’s brew scene in between seeing the sights. When my wife and I were invited to Los Angeles for a three-day bar mitzvah followed by an extended family Thanksgiving, we booked a few days in San Diego to decompress between family events.
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