Modern Times Beer
Microbrewery
in
San Diego,
California,
United States 🇺🇸
Owned by
Maui Brewing Company
Associated with 9 Venues
Established in 2012
Contact
Description
Modern Times is a 30bbl production brewery and tasting room in the Point Loma neighborhood of San Diego. Modern Times is named after a beautifully crazy utopian community founded in 1850 (see “Modern Times was..” for the full explanation), and (almost) all of our beers are named after real utopian experiments or mythological utopias.
8.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8.5
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 8.5
22oz (thx, Cam B., for the beer and Josh for bringing it from Seattle to the border) @ Ryan's shared with Alex, Phill, and Josh, trying to figure out the Okanagan trip because weather is preventing us from Golden Ears camping 😬.
Aroma: heavy, sweet, nice integrated mix of coffee and coconut, American oak.
Taste: along the same lines, nicely balanced coconut, chcocolate, vanilla, and American oak.
Overall: very nice.
Aroma: heavy, sweet, nice integrated mix of coffee and coconut, American oak.
Taste: along the same lines, nicely balanced coconut, chcocolate, vanilla, and American oak.
Overall: very nice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Jun 2026
at 05:57
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8.5
Flavor 8.5
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Dark brown. Rich chocolate aroma, light cinnamon and some coconut, vanilla. Thick and sweet. Coconut, vanilla, little bit of cinnamon, maple, apple and lots of chocolate. Has all the decadence of a MT but complexity is more on the adjuncts than anything else.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Jun 2026
at 05:55
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Poured from 650mL bottle. Very dark brown with very minimal off white head. Mild cinnamon, coffee cake with feint coconut, the apple brandy and maple is but a hint, yet lends a gentle roundness. Each MT still available is something to savour. RIP.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Jun 2026
at 05:48
8.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8.5
Flavor 9
Texture 9
Overall 9
22oz (thanks a lot, Jorge G.!) shared with Farees @ Phill's during the BBQ party in honour of his birthday.
Aroma: amazing barrel character, some whiskey notes, dark fruits, moderately sweet.
Taste: along the same lines, perfect body thickness.
Overall: very nice, love it ❤️ And even the cap was smiling me when I opened the bottle 😂
Aroma: amazing barrel character, some whiskey notes, dark fruits, moderately sweet.
Taste: along the same lines, perfect body thickness.
Overall: very nice, love it ❤️ And even the cap was smiling me when I opened the bottle 😂
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Jun 2026
at 05:47
8.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8.5
Flavor 9
Texture 9
Overall 9.5
Shared with Caesar and ShivanDragon @ Mancave Bunnik. Opaque black color, small light brown colored head. Aroma is predominantly bourbon, vanilla, softly malts, caramel. Flavor is malts, caramel, chocolate, bourbon, vanilla, lightly soy sauce. Full body, decent carbonation, thick texture. Heavy but really really good. Wow.
Tried
on 15 May 2026
at 20:30
8.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9
Near black. Chocolate coconut bomb aroma. Super thick and sweet. Massive coconut, lighy roast, and of course a lot of barrel to round it out. Doesn’t scream rye, but it’s well-integrated.
Tried
from Draft
at
Modern Times - North Park Flavordome
on 10 May 2026
at 15:58
9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 9
Near black. Roast, dark chocolate, almond lending richness. Big deep molasses, light fruitiness, rounded bourbon, soft and sweet. Dense sugars. Slight alcohol in the finish. This is fucking good. That little hint of toasty almond in the finish, the gorgeous barrel. Shit yeah.
Tried
from Draft
at
Modern Times - North Park Flavordome
on 10 May 2026
at 15:57
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8.5
Texture 8
Overall 8
Boozy, chocolate, smooth
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Apr 2026
at 23:26
5.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
US Pint, on tap in a Mendocino Farms place (in El Segundo) on the way to LAX and our flight home on 22nd April 2026. Pours a bright, clean and clear light golden colour, fast fading white crown on the very cold offering. Dry and OK, refreshing and it did go well with the sandwich I had.
Tried
from Draft
on 22 Apr 2026
at 13:15
7.4/10
Funky, stuffy and lemony with hints of oak, vanilla, tartness and mild farmyardy yeastiness. Interesting
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Apr 2026
at 15:54