Thorn Brewing Company

Microbrewery in San Diego, California, United States 🇺🇸
Associated with 2 Venues

Contact
3176 Thorn St, San Diego, CA, 92104, United States
Description
(Previously Thorn Street Brewery)

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6.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Draft. Amber beer with a cream head. Light malt and citrus aroma. Malt and citrus flavor. Medium bodied. Malt and citrus linger.

Tried on 27 Jun 2025 at 15:49


7

EB: 11/10/2021 Roasted and sweet dark malty, notes of chocolate and caramel, light salty, medium plus body, sweet dark malty close. Nice.

Tried from Can on 26 Mar 2025 at 06:39


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

At La Jolla, San Diego with the team, 24th February 25. Pours hazy and its a decent IPA, bittersweet and fun.

Tried on 16 Mar 2025 at 09:58


5.1
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

Pint on tap at Princess Pub, San Diego. Clear amber beer with a thin white head. Grain nose, sweet grain taste. Finish is a little sour. Full body, smooth texture. A step up from macro-Lager but only one step.

Tried from Draft on 25 Aug 2024 at 03:37


6.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Draft at Dragon's Den at Legoland. Pours hazy yellow. Nice fruit on both aroma and flavor.

Tried from Draft on 09 Apr 2024 at 04:46


7.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5

pours a really nice looking abbey ale brown with a nice yellow-brown head that doesn't last but leaves a film. looks totally belgian. nutty and malty and belgian yeasts and a lot of bourbon in the aroma, also some wood, bit of brown sugar, fainter or more subtle notes of dried dark fruits, like figs, but not very fruity, more like dried sweet fruits, more like malts, if that makes sense, also some sweet nuts in there. aroma is like a really good no-that-fruity-but-plenty of flavor quad, just bourbon barrel aged, so tons of bourbon in addition to the quad thing. it is not balanced (too much bourbon) but the tilted balance works quite well nevertheless. flavor is sweet malty, dried dark fruits, wood, bourbon, especially towards the end, some bitter caramelly almost burned plastic like bitterness, probably from a very light infection, or from the barrel, but baiscally a strange in-between, between a bourbon barrel aged barley wine, and a good traditional belgian quad. If you like that sort of thing, it's a great and complex sipper, that still packs a punch in 2024 even if bottled in 2018 - but i think it is topping now, some of the subtle off flavors could be bc of aging getting to it. If you are in mood for this kind of crazy and complex thing, the beer will be much more than 3.8 to you. the craziness is super interesting and explorable and makes a GREAT sipper. If i had more, i'd keep one 5yrs more and see what happens.

Tried from Bottle on 19 Mar 2024 at 21:24


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

Thanks Justin for sharing! Wineglass showing pale amber with sparse white foam.

The nose shows moderately intense notes of orange and tangerine.

The palate is well carbonated and light bodied. Dry cannabis forward with a moderately sharp bitterness.

Tried from Can on 21 Oct 2023 at 13:14


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

Tap at Sally’s Seafood Restaurant. Pours gold with a white head. Bready aroma. Near medium body. Flavor is lightly corny with light hop. Fairly dry. Lightly bitter.

Tried from Draft on 27 Aug 2023 at 01:54


5.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5

16oz can, drank in Laguna Hills on 28th July 2023. No head on a murky dull orange/pineapple colored body. Intense pineapple aroma and taste, sour pineapple that is! Strange thing all round and not very beer like, not really helped by the cinnamon and cloves that are added during the brewing process.

Tried from Can on 29 Jul 2023 at 04:05


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Tried on 12 Jun 2023 at 10:44


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