Booze Brothers is celebrating 13 years at its Vista brewery today, Saturday, Nov. 14. San Diego Beer News, in a 91X Beer for Breakfast write-up published this morning, says the party at 2545 Progress St. runs from noon to close, with a limited 13 Year Anniversary IPA on the bar. The station describes that beer as citrusy and Galaxy-hopped. It does not list an ABV or a price, and neither does the brewery’s calendar, so we are not inventing either one.
The brewery’s own event listing frames the party as a two-day anniversary weekend at the Vista taproom, starting Friday at noon and running through 11 p.m. tonight. It is free, and the posting promises live music, a special beer release and food specials. That calendar is the source for the band names San Diego Beer News left out: Friday’s music came from Loom and Oscuro, and today’s bill is Shy Deer and Bachata Surf. Set times are not posted.
Booze Brothers’ anniversary pour in Vista
Anyone heading to Booze Brothers today should treat “noon to close” and the calendar’s 11 p.m. Saturday end time as the two public schedules on the table. The brewery’s locations page still lists regular Saturday hours as noon to 10 p.m., which is earlier than the anniversary listing. If you are planning around last call, it is safer to confirm on the calendar or at the door than to assume the usual Saturday close.
Booze Brothers has been a fixture on Vista’s industrial-park brewery stretch since 2013, when brothers David and Donny Firth moved the company to Progress Street after years of garage brewing that, the brewery’s about page says, began in 2008. The company later added an Oceanside tasting room and a Fallbrook location. That Vista address is the one in our Vista Breweries Guide, which had the taproom’s regular hours verified on Nov. 2, and the Oceanside room is in our Oceanside and Carlsbad breweries guide.
A 13-year mark lands differently in a year when North County’s brewery map has been shrinking. We covered Prohibition Brewing’s Vista shutdown earlier this month, and our Vista guide already accounts for that closing and for The Lost Abbey’s planned exit from its Vista brewery at year’s end. The wider contraction is in our roundup of California craft brewery closings. Booze Brothers is one of the rooms that is still throwing a party.
San Diego Beer News is the only outlet we have seen name the anniversary IPA and describe it as citrusy and Galaxy-hopped. The Booze Brothers calendar confirms a special beer release for the weekend but does not repeat that recipe note, and it does not list a Sunday plan. If you want the limited IPA and today’s bands, the window is this afternoon and evening at the Vista taproom of Booze Brothers.
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