Mother Earth Brew Company

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

Established in 2010

Contact
2055 Thibodo Rd, Ste H., Vista, CA, 92081, United States
Description
Founded in North San Diego County in 2010 by Daniel & Jon Love, and Kamron Khannakhjavani, what began as a hobby years earlier had formed into a business. Originally operating out of a 2200 sq. ft. industrial space, the business grew quickly thanks to thirsty patrons visiting the industrial, but homely, onsite tasting room and adjacent homebrew store. Brewhouse upgrades soon followed and in 2012, Mother Earth opened a large Tap House in the historic downtown Vista district. The relocation of the tap room allowed the company to expand its production spaces even further and over time additional square footage was added to nearly 28000 sq. ft. in total.

In 2015 the company began development of a new, state-of-the-art 40,000 sq. ft. production facility in Nampa, Idaho. Featuring a 40 bbl multi-vessel brewhouse, and the capacity to produce over 100K bbls/yr, “Mother Earth – Nampa” went on-line in August of 2016 and through continuous upgrades and expansion rapidly became the largest brewery in the state of Idaho. As Mother Earth's second regional headquarters, Nampa supports most of the company's growth and produces beer for all markets outside Southern California. The original Vista brewery continues to provide draft and specialty offerings to its home market of Socal as well as creating unique one-off brews for visitors at its retail operations in North County San Diego. Mother Earth remains family owned and operated and has become a standard of success within the industry.

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7.4
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5

16 oz can from a four pack bought at Costco. Aroma has notes of gummy peach rings, pine, guava. Pours murky yellow with a one finger off-white head that falls into a ring fairly quickly. Taste is mildly bitter with flavors of guava, pine. Palate is softly carbonated.

Tried from Can on 23 Dec 2025 at 04:08


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7.1
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

16 oz can. Aroma has notes of cantaloupe, peach rings, guava, crackery malt, orange creamsicle. Pours murky yellow with a half finger off-white head that settles into a ring pretty quickly. Taste has a light to moderate pithy bitterness that continually builds on the palate. Flavors of citrus, pine and soap.

Tried from Can from Pilgrim's Market on 15 Dec 2025 at 00:30


7.1
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5

On tap at Mother Earth, pours a muddled deep dark brown, no head. Aroma is full of nutmeg and cinnamon upfront, backed by toasted malt, caramel, and blueberry and plum. Flavour is robust, with lots of cinnamon and nutmeg that work really well with the blueberry and plum. This sounds like a mess on paper but actually comes together well. Nice stuff.

Tried from Draft at Mother Earth Brew Company Tap House on 12 Dec 2025 at 18:43


7.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

On tap at Mother Earth, pours jet black with a small tan head. Aroma is full of spicy chili peppers—tons of cayenne in particular—with cocoa and gentle bourbon. Flavour has a nice malt backbone, with plenty of chilis, light cinnamon, cocoa, and bourbon. Really nice incorporation of then chilis and cinnamon. Not my kind of impie but this is done real well.

Tried from Draft at Mother Earth Brew Company Tap House on 12 Dec 2025 at 18:40


7.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 8

On tap at Mother Earth, pours jet black with a small tan head. Aroma is full of smokiness, dry malts, bourbon barrels, and some earthiness. Flavour is dry, with lots of smoky peated bourbon barrels, light vanilla, and dry malts. Smoky, dry, woody finish. Very good.

Tried from Draft at Mother Earth Brew Company Tap House on 12 Dec 2025 at 18:28


6.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

On tap at Mother Earth, pours a clear copper with a small white head. Aroma brings out grassy hops, light pine, and straw. Flavour is quite bitter, with plenty of bitterness, some grass, and crisp biscuity malt. Not the best hop expression but has nice bitterness.

Tried from Draft at Mother Earth Brew Company Tap House on 12 Dec 2025 at 18:22


7.1
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

On tap at Mother Earth, pours a clear pale golden with a small white head. Aroma brings out bright piney hops, some tang, and light dank. Flavour has bright dankness, some bitter pine, and crisp biscuity malt. Dank, piney finish. Not the brightest hop expression but has good structure and balance. Good.

Tried from Draft at Mother Earth Brew Company Tap House on 12 Dec 2025 at 18:20


6.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

On tap at Mother Earth, pours a clear golden with a small white head. Aroma brings out piney hops, toasted biscuity malt, and citrus. Flavour is quite bitter, with bitter pine, biscuity malt, and finishing bitter and crisp. Good stuff.

Tried from Draft at Mother Earth Brew Company Tap House on 12 Dec 2025 at 18:19


7
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7

On tap at Mother Earth, pours a clear copper with a small white head. Aroma has gentle oak and toasted biscuity malt. Flavour has gentle buttery oak, toasted malt, and earthiness. Nice subtle buttery oak to help the malts along. Pleasant.

Tried from Draft at Mother Earth Brew Company Tap House on 12 Dec 2025 at 18:17


7
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7

On tap at Mother Earth, pours a clear copper with a small beige head. Aroma brings out toasted malt and some gentle sugars. Flavour is dry, with toasted malt and dry bready malt. Dry, toasted, almost oaky. Good stuff.

Tried from Draft at Mother Earth Brew Company Tap House on 12 Dec 2025 at 18:15