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.
8.4/10
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Appearance 9
Aroma 8.5
Flavor 8.5
Texture 8
Overall 8
22oz @ Ryan's shared with Phill.
Aroma: amazing mix of chcocolate, coconut, vanilla, and American oak.
Taste: along the same Iines, moderately to highly sweet, a lot of coconut, chcocolate, and vanilla.
Overall: nice one.
Aroma: amazing mix of chcocolate, coconut, vanilla, and American oak.
Taste: along the same Iines, moderately to highly sweet, a lot of coconut, chcocolate, and vanilla.
Overall: nice one.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Dec 2025
at 06:21
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 minimal beige head. Vanilla, marshmallow, touch of coconut, subtle bourbon and graham cracker in the background. Typical Modern Times barrelled beer goodness. Have to savour each one of these that are still kicking around.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Dec 2025
at 06:08
8.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
On tap at Timestead, pours black with a tiny brown head. Nose is full of rich dark sugars, bourbon barrels, dark chocolate, and oak. Flavour is super rich, with intense bourbon barrels, huge sticky dark sugars, molasses, brown sugar, and caramel. Sticky, sweet but not cloying, with a nice fruitiness; endlessly complex. Beauty.
Tried
from Draft
at
Timestead by Modern Times
on 13 Dec 2025
at 06:51
8.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9
On tap at Modern Times - Encinitas, pours inky black, almost no head. Aroma is decadent, with deep bourbon barrels, succulent coconuts, moderate coffee presence, and sticky dark sugars. Flavour is absurdly complex and decadent, with truckloads of coconut, balanced by dark roast coffee, quite a lot of dark sugars, all wrapped up in a divine bourbon barrel character. Sublime incorporation of the coconut and coffee; sweeter than typical MT BA beers but kept in check. Absolutely superb.
Tried
from Draft
at
Modern Times - Far West Lounge
on 12 Dec 2025
at 07:01
9/10
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Appearance 9
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 9
Overall 9
On tap at Modern Times - Flavordome, pours black, almost no head. Aroma is complex as hell, with huge coconut, marshmallow, bourbon barrels, and dark sugars. Flavour is full of buttery butterscotch, bourbon, coconut galore, and marshmallow. Super coconuty, marshmallowy, and full of butterscotch. Ridiculously complex, pastrified, orgasmic delight.
Tried
from Draft
at
Modern Times - North Park Flavordome
on 11 Dec 2025
at 18:28
8.9/10
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Appearance 9
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 9
Overall 8.5
On tap at Modern Times - Flavordome, pours black with a small brown head. Aroma is absurdly intense, with ridiculously complex and elegant bourbon barrels, light vanillin, oak, molasses, and dark sugars. Flavour is extremely rich, with intense bourbon, deep dark sugars, caramel, oak, vanilla, and booze. Wonderful depth, though maybe not actually at the level of refinement of some other MT stuff. Beauty.
Tried
from Draft
at
Modern Times - North Park Flavordome
on 11 Dec 2025
at 18:26
8.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8.5
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
On tap at Modern Times - Flavordome, pours a clear dark rosé colour with a small off-white head. Aroma is complex, with huge bugginess upfront and the raspberries taking a backseat, and gentle oak. Flavour is dry, tart and buggy, with super complex bugginess, oak, and a dry buggy finish. The wild yeast sure takes centre stage, with the raspberries accentuating. Wonderful.
Tried
from Draft
at
Modern Times - North Park Flavordome
on 11 Dec 2025
at 18:22
8.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Dark brown. On the nose, big malt, lots of bourbon. On the palate, oh yeah, lots of chocolate, bourbon, sticky syrups. Nice alcohol in the finish. Excellent.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Dec 2025
at 05:44
8.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
22 oz. bottle, pours jet black, with almost no head. Aroma is decadent, with big bourbon barrels, a hint of smokiness, molasses, and cocoa. Flavour is decadent and complex, with rich bourbon barrels, chocolatey molasses, and cocoa. Almost flat carb, silky smooth mouthfeel, finishing with complex bourbon and chocolatey sugars. Beauty.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Dec 2025
at 05:37
8.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
Poured from 650mL bottle. Very dark brown with very minimal beige head. Nice bourbon barrel, dark sugars, great Modern Times quality. Not the best MT barreled impie, but super smooth and still high tier.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Dec 2025
at 05:32