🍺 Best Breweries & Craft Beer in San Diego
65 breweries & craft beer spots in San Diego, scored and ranked for 2026.
🍽️ Open Interactive GuideTop 10 Breweries & Craft Beer Spots
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Hopnonymous Brewing Company
A Convoy Court brewery in Kearny Mesa (with a second taproom in Normal Heights), pouring a rotating range from hoppy IPAs to stouts and fruited sours. Recognized by San Diego Beer News several years r...
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2
East Village Brewing Company
A neighborhood brewery in downtown's East Village, on Park Boulevard near the ballpark, that pitches itself on wholesome ingredients, sustainability and community. The site is light on specifics, but ...
91
3
Pure Project Balboa Park
The Balboa Park taproom of Pure Project, a San Diego brewery that leans hard into sustainable sourcing and murky, hop-forward IPAs. Expect rotating limited releases like Super Beta and the yuzu rice l...
90
4
The Church by The Lost Abbey
The downtown tasting room of Vista's Lost Abbey, an award-winning craft brewery whose beers like Duck Duck Gooze, Carnevale and Devotion have been poured on the world's biggest stages. The Church sits...
90
5
Ketch Brewing
Ketch Brewing's Kearny Mesa brew pub pours easy-drinking, crisp-and-clean beers — its Brig Blonde took gold at the 2025 Great American Beer Festival. The tap list spans a Mexican-style amber, a hazy I...
90
6
Attitude Brewing
A brewery in Barrio Logan that houses Tito's Deli serving Puerto Rican food. The taproom anchors a corner of the neighborhood's beer scene.
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7
Hidden Craft
A downtown craft-beer spot built around 30-plus self-pour taps of local San Diego breweries, where you pay by the ounce and build your own flights or mix and match styles. The made-in-house food menu ...
88
8
AleSmith Brewing Company
One of America's most-decorated breweries — Miramar production facility, Speedway Stout as the legend, and a tasting room that beer people travel to San Diego for. The Tony Gwynn partnership still anc...
87
9
Blind Lady Ale House
Normal Heights' family-friendly craft-beer destination — a pizza program that takes dough seriously, a 32-tap rotating list that beer geeks across SD use as reference, and a dining room that lets the ...
87
10
Sessions Public
Point Loma's Voltaire Street chef-driven gastropub — a 30+ craft-tap list, farm-sourced rotating menu, and a dining room that reads as the Point Loma neighborhood-kitchen reference. A defining chef-dr...
86
All 65 Breweries & Craft Beer Spots in San Diego
Pure Project Brewing — Miramar
86
Modern Times Beer Lomaland Fermentorium
85
Societe Brewing Company
85
Bottlecraft Beer Shop
85
Mujeres Brew House
85
Neighborhood
85
Flying Pig Pub & Kitchen — Oceanside
85
Fall Brewing Co.
85
Viewpoint Brewing Co.
85
Hamilton's Tavern
85
Pizza Port Solana Beach
84
Stone Brewing World Bistro & Gardens
84
Border X Brewing
84
Waypoint Public
84
Soda & Swine
84
Common Theory Public House
84
The Haven Pizzeria
84
Belching Beaver Brewery — Vista
84
Tiger! Tiger! Tavern
84
North Park Beer Co.
84
Craft House Gastropub
84
Karl Strauss Brewing Company — Downtown
83
Gravity Heights
83
Union Kitchen & Tap — Encinitas
83
Monkey Paw Brewing Co.
83
Half Door Brewing Co.
83
Kairoa Brewing Company
83
Small Bar
83
Mike Hess Brewing — North Park
83
Pizza Port — Ocean Beach
83
Ritual Kitchen & Beer Garden
83
Thorn Brewing Co. — Barrio Logan
83
Bitter Brothers Brewing Co.
83
Culture Brewing Co. — Ocean Beach
83
Kilowatt Brewing — Barrio Logan
83
Bolt Brewery — La Mesa
83
Mission Brewery
83
Eppig Brewing — North Park
83
Callahan's Pub & Brewery
83
Urge American Gastropub — Rancho Bernardo
83
Pizza Port — Carlsbad Village
83
Coronado Brewing Company
82
Ballast Point Little Italy
82
Newport Pizza & Ale House
82
Resident Brewing Company
82
Hillcrest Brewing Company
82
Karl Strauss Brewing Co. — Mira Mesa
82
Third Avenue Alehouse
82
OB Warehouse Kitchen & Taps
82
The Original 40 Brewing Company
82
Oggi's Pizza & Brewing — Del Mar
82
The Local Eatery & Drinking Hole — Pacific Beach
82
OB Brewery
82
Fox Point Brewing Co.
80
Tiny Giant Taproom
71
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