Mike Hess Brewing Company

Microbrewery in San Diego, California, United States 🇺🇸
Associated with 3 Venues

Established in 2010

Contact
7955 Silverton Ave #1201 (858) 267-6378, San Diego, CA, CA 92126, United States
Description
Mike Hess Brewing is one of the premier craft breweries of San Diego. We set out with a mission to bring people together over great beer and were early on in the craft beer revolution. We were the region’s 33rd brewery back in 2010 when our first location, then a nano-brewery, in Miramar was opened. Now, in our 10th year, we have 5 locations in California, including the “OG” spot, which has since tripled in size!

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6.8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
7 3 7 3 14Can shared at home. Clear golden with a small white head. Aroma of citrus, light herbs and caramel malt. Flavour is light to moderate sweet and moderate bitter. Light medium bodied with soft carbonation.
Tried from Can on 07 Jul 2018 at 14:45

7.3/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 8 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 8
Draught @ Beer Temple (8% ABV). Deep dark brown color, not quite black. Brown head with little retention but good lacing. Aroma's: roasted malt, some coffee, light sweetness. Retronasal: roasted, light sweet. Flavor is roasted, dark chocolate, moderate bitter, light sweet. MEdium bodied. Finishes with strong roast, bitter. Interesting.
Tried on 02 Jul 2018 at 21:12

7/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 6 Overall 7
Double IPA from a craft brewery I never heard of, can at BeerTemple in Amsterdam, one of those new type cans which open over the entire top surface. Snow white, rather loose and quickly opening head over a hazy orange blonde beer with peachy hue. Aroma of tonic water, yellow grapefruit juice, dried wormwood leaves, dried juniper berries, gin, pond water, green olives, cold French fries, marijuana. Restrained sweetish onset, green banana with a dried citrus peel effect, fizzy carb, full and oily mouthfeel. Bread crust-like maltiness increasingly drenched in a long, spicy, rooty, grapefruity bitterness, almost like green bitter herbs (wormwood leaves) and green peppercorns; something weirdly sulfuric (rotten potato-like) turns up retronasally. Potent, unusual DIPA, different within the style and as such interesting, but bearing some weird, unpleasant off-flavours.
Tried from Can on 27 Jun 2018 at 10:04

6/10
Tried from Can on 01 Jun 2018 at 23:06

6.4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Can from Beer Republic. Canned 02/27/2018. Poured clear golden color with a thin white head. Citrusy herbal hoppy malty aroma. Quite crisp, citrusy flavors, some dill. Light bodied.
Tried from Can on 31 May 2018 at 16:05

7.2/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 8
Golden with a white head - Hops in the aroma - Malt body with good hops that gives bitterness - The malt and hop flavours goes into the finish with bitterness - This was good
Tried on 27 May 2018 at 20:10

5.2/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 5 Flavor 5 Texture 6 Overall 5
keg at the hanging bat.. M hazy amber.. Thin white lacing.. soft toffee caramel toffee fruit nose.. big caramel crystal
Tried on 07 May 2018 at 15:17

5.6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 5 Texture 6 Overall 5.5
Keg at the hanging bat. Pours orange, nose is cereal, toffee, floral, taste is sweet toffee, grassy, cereal.
Tried on 04 May 2018 at 17:39

6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
Pour is a clear brown with a large tan head. Aroma is some sweet malt and not much else. Flavor is again some sweet malt with a slightly nutty aftertaste. It was ok for what it is.
Tried on 28 Apr 2018 at 18:05

6/10
Tried from Can on 28 Apr 2018 at 14:53