It’s another big month of beer festivals, brewery and bar anniversaries. Though we’ve assembled some of the higher-profile, better bets, there are far too many quality goings-on to get them all into one sampler flight. Luckily, you can keep up on all of the beery happenings on a continual event via West Coaster’s Events Page.
September 2-4 | Anniversaries Galore: You can get back to San Diego’s roots with The Roots at Ballast Point Brewing & Spirits’ 20th soiree at the Del Mar Racetrack, celebrate the first 12 months of RB brewery Second Chance Beer Company’s short-but-meaningful lifespan or hit up Toolbox Brewing Company in Vista and toast two years of fermentation with wild ales! | Various Locations, Dates & Times Vary
September 10 | Peter Reeves Memorial Sour Fest: As much as we want to remember loved ones who pass on, you can be sure they want such remembrance to be joyous rather than sorrowful. That’s the goal behind this annual event at Churchill’s Pub & Grille, which offers more than 50 sour beers in the name and memory of a dearly loved and missed friend. | Churchill’s Pub & Grille, 887 West San Marcos Boulevard, San Marcos, 11 a.m.
September 13-19 | 7th Anniversary Week: Full details are still being hammered out for Small Bar‘s seven-day celebration, but an Amplified Ale Works beer dinner featuring a playful menu stocked with ears both pig and frog will take place on the 13th as a lead-up to a 7th anniversary party that will be chock full of rare beers, including some stellar cellared sours. | Small Bar, 4628 Park Boulevard, University Heights, Times Vary
September 16 | San Diego Brewers Guild Golf Tournament: The guild representing San Diego’s long list of breweries does a great deal to advocate for them, and this is a fun way to help ensure the SDBG has the funds necessary to do the best job at that as possible. Spend a Friday on the greens drinking green (i.e., hoppy) beers and really regretting that whole calling-in-sick thing. | Rancho Bernardo Inn, 17550 Bernardo Oaks Drive, Rancho Bernardo, 10 a.m.
September 24 | Hop Heads & Dreads: Craft beer and reggae are coming together at Harrah’s Resort Southern California. The musical-stylings of Stick Figure and RDGLDGRN will be on display along with a plethora of beers. Hops are both related to and smell a lot like certain other little green buds, so perhaps this is an even more natural pairing than one might at first think. | Harrah’s Resort Southern California, 777 Harrah’s Rincon Way, Valley Center, 2 p.m.
