Main Tap Tavern is bringing you another food / beer pairing! We teamed up with AleSmith Brewery for the event. We are going to be serving a three course meal for the event with five different beers brewed by AleSmith to go along with it. The menu is as follows:

For starters will be serving their Anvil, which is an English Style Bitter, with a Venissimo Cheese & bread freshly baked by Sadie Rose Baking Company. As well, we will be serving a salad served with fresh greens topped with fresh cone Columbus Hopped vinaigrette paired with the India Pale Ale!

For the Main course we’ll be serving Brisket Braised in Nut Brown w/ Nut Brown Mushroom Gravy, accompanied with Garlic Stir-Fried Brussels sprouts cooked in AleSmith X. You will enjoy both of these brews while enjoying the main course.

For the final long awaited dish, the final course of the meal….dessert! Decadence 2011 on Cask will be served with a Crème Brew-Lay!

Tickets for the event are very limited and are $32 each. Buy your ticket online at Ticketderby.com or at maintaptavern.com! Come in and buy it from one of our bartenders for only $30.

Main Tap Tavern has MLB EXTRA INNINGS®. Be here with your home team every step of the way to the pennant race. See every history-making moment in crystal-clear High Definition on one of our 5 flat screen TV’s. When it comes to Major League Baseball & to a huge craft beer selection, no one beats Main Tap Tavern!

Lightning American Amber Ale is Jim’s take on the English Extra Special Bitter. This recipe has been brewed largely unchanged for upwards of 25 years while the head brewer was still in graduate school. This version is hoppier, more malty, and has a higher ABV than its British cousin, but retains a surprising balance and drinkability. A tall cream-colored head tops off this gorgeous dark amber beer. Cask conditioned firkin on right now!

Hop flavor is high, and should reflect an American hop character with
citrusy, floral, resinous, piney or fruity aspects. High hop bitterness, although the malt backbone will support the strong hop character and provide the best balance. Malt flavor is low, and is generally clean and malty. Some clean alcohol flavor can be noted. Oceanside Ale Works “Dude” is dry hopped with pure Cascade extract oil and carbonated in brite tank with consistent head pressure for 10 days opposed to using carb stone to save aroma. 9.4% abv. Oaked in barrel for 10 months.
Cask conditioned firkin release, May 16th at 3pm!

“The Katywompus Trio” is an electric mix of 70′s funk, 80′s punk, and southern fried blues. Come enjoy an array of original music, homegrown so-cal Rock ‘n Roll, that taste like chicken (or tofurkey if you don’t like meat) on Saturday, May 19th at 9p.m.

Karl Strauss Crystal Dry Hopped Tower 10 is their West Coast-style India Pale Ale dry-hopped with Crystal hops for a zesty citrus hop aroma. Cask conditioned release on May 23rd at 3pm!

Bring all of your UFC buddies down to the Main Tap Tavern for UFC 146 Dos Santos vs. Mir on Saturday, May 26th at 7pm! Preliminaries start at 6pm so be here early to find a seat. $5 COVER! Call ahead to reserve tables of 4 or more while they last!!

Resinous hop characteristics emerge from an enormous hopping with Columbus, Nugget and Amarillo overtaking the rich caramel malt base. To add luscious hop flavors and enticingly floral hop aromas, they dry-hop the brew with bucket loads of Amarillo hops. Welcome to the world of Red IPA. Cask conditioned release of Green Flash Hop Head Red on May 30th at 3pm!

Beneath the tides off Mission Beach rests Wreck Alley – a dark and mysterious seascape of forgotten ships. Amidst the rusted wreckage is a marine ecosystem, an artificial reef teeming with life. Karl Strauss Wreck Alley is as dark as the depths of its namesake, an Imperial Stout of uncharted complexity. Brewed with darkly kilned malts, cocoa nibs, and Ethiopian coffee beans, Wreck Alley boasts rich layers of dark chocolate, toffee, and espresso-like roast. Enjoy a cask conditioned version of Karl Strauss Wreck Alley at the Main Tap Tavern on Thursday, June 7th at 5pm for our Blackout Thursday $3.50 release special!

San Diego’s Own THE “AMALGAMATED”
They’re a traditional SKA/JAZZ band with early 60′s rock steady and reggae influences. This incredible live band that makes everyone dance to up-tempo beats and can also get you into a groove with light reggae textures. They open each song up for solo’s allowing all members the opportunity to show off their improvisation talents. The creativity flowing may remind the audience of great jazz standards being performed. Check them out here with all of your friends on Saturday, June 16th at 9pm!