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.
9.3/10
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Appearance 9
Aroma 9
Flavor 9.5
Texture 10
Overall 9
22 oz. bottle, pours jet black, no head. Aroma is super complex in terms of the barrel expression, with lots of wood, whiskey, and bourbon. Flavour is super cohesive and complex, with intense dark sugars, lots of wood, smooth whiskey, some bourbon, and a touch of vanilla. Ridiculously complex, cohesive, and smooth. Beautiful.
Tried
from Bottle
at
Modern Times - Lomaland Fermentorium
on 08 Jul 2025
at 05:02
8.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 9
Poured from 650mL bottle. Very dark brown with no head. Beautiful bourbon blend, so smooth, holy shit, some dark sugars, excellent.
Tried
from Bottle
at
Modern Times - Lomaland Fermentorium
on 08 Jul 2025
at 04:55
9/10
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Appearance 9
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 9
Overall 9
Bomber at share. Black, slick pour with a spotty beige head. Aroma is chocolate, roasted malts and coconut, sweetness. Taste mirrors the aroma, a nice creamy thick, malty strong ale with a ton of coconut flavor. Super smooth, Superb.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Jun 2025
at 00:10
8.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8.5
Flavor 8.5
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bomber at bottle share. Inky, slick black pour, small foamy head. Chocolaty aroma, notes of vanilla. Taste brings in some nutty flavors, roasty, sweet, smooth.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Jun 2025
at 22:22
8.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8.5
Texture 9
Overall 8.5
22oz (thx, Ben M. D.!) @ Ryan's.
Aroma: heavy, dark fruits, sherry
Taste: along the same lines, balanced sweetness and fruitiness with some oxidation added by sherry barrels.
Overall: nice one.
Aroma: heavy, dark fruits, sherry
Taste: along the same lines, balanced sweetness and fruitiness with some oxidation added by sherry barrels.
Overall: nice one.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Jun 2025
at 07:08
9.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9.5
Texture 9
Overall 9.5
Dark brown. This comes across with a bit of chaos, an intense barley wine (not imperial stout, really, there's no roast) with dark fruits, intense sugars, a bit of vibrant acidity, a touch of chocolate, raisiny, some alcohol. Very complex. There's all that armagnac, sherry, yeah those barrels are intense, and bring a lot of vinous richness to the malty depths of the base. Fantastic stuff - I don't imagine this concept has been attempted all that many times and there are few people on this planet who could do it this well.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Jun 2025
at 06:58
8/10
Smooth, sweetish and slightly roasty with some barrel and bourbon vanilla notes, hints of syrup and earthiness. Pretty smooth and balanced.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Jun 2025
at 16:32
8/10
Boozy, nice barrel, chocolate, malty caramel, dryish, smooth. Very nice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Jun 2025
at 16:21
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6
Tried
on 28 May 2025
at 18:15
8/10
22oz (thx, Chris!). After MBCC 2025 spontaneous session for beered out people.
American oak, coconut, some dark fruits. Boozy, a lot of coconut. Good one.
8☆4☆8☆4☆16》40
American oak, coconut, some dark fruits. Boozy, a lot of coconut. Good one.
8☆4☆8☆4☆16》40
Tried
from Can
on 25 May 2025
at 00:17