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10 Reasons to Watch Super Bowl 50 at Hillcrest Brewing Company

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Top 10 Reasons Hillcrest Brewing Company is the Best Place to Watch Super Bowl 50 in San Diego

1. The Staff

jason-hbcHillcrest Brewing Company has friendly staff that will bend over backwards to meet your needs. We take pride in our guest’s experience and will do whatever is in our power to make sure you’re having a better time when you leave than when you first entered. Watching the Super Bowl at HBC is just like watching it with your family!

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Nothing brings people together like Football and a fresh brew (or three). Combine that with our atmosphere and you’ve got a recipe for good times with your friends and loved ones.

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Need we say more?

4.Pizza and Wings

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Get a slice of pizza or basket of 3 wings for $2.50! Our baked wings are the best in town! Much better tasting and healthier than fried wings, our wings are a San Diego favorite.

Game on all screens with sound up

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At HBC we take care to make sure that everyone in the house can enjoy the game. All TVs including our HD 55″ flat screen will be playing the game with high quality picture and sound.

HBC is the only LGBT owned and operated Brewery in San Diego where you can watch the Super Bowl

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HBC is the first and only LGBT owned brewery in San Diego! Watch the game where you can be yourself with like minded individuals!

Loaded Chili Dogs and Chili Bowls

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We’re having a special menu for Super Bowl 50! Try a Loaded Hot Dog or Chili Bowl for just $4.50. Regular Hot Dogs are also available for $3.

We make the beer in front of you

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At HBC you know you’re getting the highest quality product. Don’t take our word for it, see for yourselves with our open brew kitchen!

Cheeseburger Pizza

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Where else could you eat a Cheeseburger and a Pizza at the same time as watching Superbowl 50 in Hillcrest?

You won’t have to lug this bad boy around

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A 15.5 gal keg can be HEAVY. Save your back, we’ve got all the beer you can drink here at Hillcrest Brewing Company.

Find More Info About Superbowl 50 at HBC Click Here!

Red Ribbon Ale to Honor World AIDS Day

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November 10th, 2015
Hillcrest Brewing Company
1458 University Ave San Diego, CA 92103

HILLCREST BREWING COMPANY’S RED RIBBON ALE

SAN DIEGO – MO’s Universe continues yearlong philanthropy with Hillcrest Brewing Company’s Red Ribbon Ale sale proceeds going towards The Scripps Research Institute’s HIV/AIDS research.

Hillcrest Brewing Company (HBC) announced this week that they will be brewing a Red Ribbon Ale beer to honor World AIDS Day.

The brewing company’s head brew master, Austin Copeland, will also honor his late father, Steven Carey, with this batch.

“My father, Steven Carey, owned a popular salon downtown in the 80’s and 90’s named Checkers. It was cool having a gay dad, I guess my life was a bit like The Birdcage. He died of AIDS in 1991 when I was very young. I remember getting picked on and made fun of about it,” Copeland remarks.

“For anyone that remembers the height of the AIDS scare, it was a terrible thing that affected tons of people and their loved ones. I wanted to do something in my position as a brewer to help the next generation and make sure it doesn’t affect them like it did me.”

MO’s Universe will offer HBC’s Red Ribbon Ale at all four of it’s locations starting on December 1st. A $2 donation will be made to The Scripps Research Institute’s HIV/AIDS program for every glass of the Red Ribbon Ale ordered.

“Scripps Research HIV/AIDS research program houses one of Scripps’s most prolific scientists, Dr. Dennis Burton, who is a world-renowned HIV/AIDS researcher. He has received considerable support from the Gates Foundation, The International AIDS Vaccine Initiative, and other philanthropists and funding organizations,” Nick Burchfield Director, Corporate and Foundation Relations, The Scripps Research Institute.

Lukas Volk, Marketing Director for MO’s Universe explains, “Everyone at MO’s Universe is pleased to see dollars going towards research that happens in our own backyard. Our community has long been touched by this unforgiving disease and we’re excited to hear of all the new progress The Scripps Research Team is making to eradicate it.”

Guests of MO’s Universe will also be able to donate their MO’s Universe Frequent Diner Reward Points during the month of December towards the Scripps Research fund.

“If we can generate just a little bit of money for a great cause, and give directly to groundbreaking research, it will be an awesome victory,” Copeland concludes.

More about the beer:
HBC’s Red Ribbon Ale is a Session Red IPA with Mosaic, Simcoe and Amarillo hops. It will contain a 4.5% ABV and medium bitterness with aromatic notes of citrus and stone fruit. The brew has a rich copper color with Munich malt backbone and caramel wheat.

More about Hillcrest Brewing Company:
The world’s first “Out and Proud LGBT Brewery” is located next door to the iconic Hillcrest Pride Flag. The fourth in line of the world famous Hillcrest landmark restaurant group, MO’s Universe, HBC features handcrafted beer and stone fired pizzas with growlers & kegs to-go. Pouring only grains and grapes, our hunky brewsters can direct your taste buds to any one of HBC’s own eight microbrews, or 16 all local guest taps whose own breweries have each defined the taste of their neighborhoods.

More about The Scripps Research Institute:
http://chavi-id.org/about

http://www.scripps.edu/news/press/2012/20120711burton.html

https://www.scripps.edu/news/press/2014/20140424hiv.html

http://www.scripps.edu/news/press/2015/20150618aidsvaccine.html

Did you know… HBC

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Hillcrest Brewing Company Did You Know...

Hillcrest Brewing Company is known for it’s extraordinary craft beer brewed right here in Hillcrest, San Diego, but did you know…

#1 We make our own HBC Root Beer
#2 We brew all of our Home Brews on sight from our own Secret Recipes
#3 Our Specialty Grains are imported from Belgium and Germany
#4 Our Beers are brewed True to Style with the finest ingredients
#5 We feature Rotating Styles and Seasonal Beers throughout the year
#6 Crotch Rocket Irish Red won a Bronze Medal in the Irish Red Ale Category for 2014 Best of Craft Beer Awards
#7 We make a House Infused HBC Beer every other Thursday
#8 We marinate and grind our own Italian Sausage in house, from scratch
#9 We make all of our own Pizza Sauces with house recipes
#10 We make our own Salad Dressings
#11 Ours Salads are chopped fresh to order
#12 We have Hoppy Hour everyday from 3-6PM ($2 off all beer and wine)
#13 Our Wings are marinated for 24 hours, then Oven Baked daily, always fresh
#14 Our Produce is ordered Daily
#15 We make our own Pizza Dough
#16 We make our own Pretzels

Pride 2014 Beer – Marriage Equality

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Pride '14 Beer Hillcrest Brewing Company

Cheers to progress

HBC releases Pride ’14 – a tribute to marriage equality

Morgan M. Hurley | GSD Editor

Two years ago, just before San Diego’s 38th annual Pride celebration, MO’s Universe launched its fourth property in the shadow of the new 60’ Pride flag: the Hillcrest Brewing Company (HBC) at the corner of University Avenue and Normal Street.

Touted as the first LGBT brewery in the world — a claim that no one has tried to dispute since — HBC has quickly become a gathering place for craft beer-loving locals both gay and straight, with its standard carry of eight brewed-on-site small batch beers along with a dozen other brands also on tap.

Earlier this year, HBC gained mainstream media attention when Interim Mayor Todd Gloria used its beer in a friendly bet with the mayor of Cincinnati during an NFL playoff game between the Chargers and the Bengals. Then just last month, HBC’s U-Hawle Hefe was the featured libation at Linda Perry’s star-studded event for the Los Angeles LGBT Center, “An Evening With Women.”

Last year the brewery launched its first annual Pride beer, a drinkable, low-alcohol, limited-edition brew meant to commemorate pride season. Called Pride ’13, the inaugural beer was a Session IPA, also called an Extra Pale Ale.

“Session stands for ‘multiple in a session,’ so they’re not going to get you too drunk,” said HBC’s head brewmaster Austin Copeland, adding that standard practice for a session beer is 5 percent alcohol or less.

Read the full story here.

Thirsty Thursday Infusions

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infused-thursdaysINFUSED! Are you ready to try our tasty bi-weekly beer infusions that our Brewers have developed for your taste bud’s pleasure?
 
We’ve got a new flavor every other week for you to try and fall in love with. Come see why we’re the #BestOnTheHill when it comes to beer!
 
Check our Facebook page to find out what this week’s flavor will be: Hillcrest Brewing Company on Facebook

Welcome Hop Sucker DIPA

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IPA Hop Sucker

Hillcrest Brewing Company would like to welcome the Hop Sucker DIPA. A west Coast Double IPA with an enormous amount of Citra and Amarillo hops, it has a nose of mango and passionfruit with a dry finish the belies its 8.5% ABV.