About Hess Brewing

Welcome to Hess Brewing! In a town with thirty-five other craft breweries and brewpubs, we’re glad you're visiting us. Hess Brewing has the distinction of being San Diego’s first licensed nano-brewery. Nano, as in small, not Nanu, Mork’s signoff. We truly brew in small hand-crafted batches, 1.6 barrels at a time (that’s just 50 gallons each batch). Stop by our tasting room and taste it for yourselves. Great Beer. No Exceptions. No Excuses.

See our St. Patricks Day Party here. Special thanks to Daniel Tyack and crew at Square Wave Studio.

Tap Hunter award party video.

Brew Diego interviews Mike Hess here. Part Deux is here.

Did you know we were on Fox news? Check out the video here.

You’ll also be seeing us at local beer events so drop by and say hey. And be sure to ask you favorite pub to add a Hess brew to the tap. Having a party? Celebrating? Well, you'll need beer, right? How awesome would it be to serve your guests a unique beer specially brewed just for you and your occasion? Contact us about providing some of the best hand crafted beer in the country. If you give us six weeks notice, we can brew-to-order your own special batch. Call or email us for details!

If you have a party of 5 or more, and would like to visit outside of regular tasting hours, call, text (619.887.6453) or email us to schedule a visit! We’re always happy to serve Hess beers!

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Hess Brewing is four guys, a gal and a warehouse space, for now:

Mike Hess, is founder and Proprietor of Hess Brewing. As a homebrewer, he started brewing 5 gallon batches back in ‘95, then moved up to 10 and finally spent a half dozen years on a 20 gallon brewery. He is the designer of our current brewhouse, the man behind the recipe formulations and is our CBO (Chief Brewing Officer).

Michael Skubic is our tasting room manager and all around beer wrangler. He has poured more beer at Hess than anyone else and you will find him during our open hours behind the bar. Knowledgeable about beers, especially ours, he is also the social media guru for Hess Brewing keeping the word up to date on our Blog, Facebook and Twitter accounts.

Court Patton is our CAD (Chief Art Dude). If it has the Hess brand (ads to stickers, posters to labels) Court drew it and designed it. Beer lover and beer drinker See more of his work here. He is also responsible for Quichrbichn, the next big thing in outer wear.

Lynda Hess is our CBC (Chief Bean Counter). She’s holds an MBA from Thunderbird, and is our Quickbooks wizard. She keeps Mike on track and is the woman behind the man. She's also a triathlete, mother of three and speaks fluent Mandarin. Nee how ma?

Greg Hess is not only in charge of Sales and Distribution, but also our CBD (Chief Bird Dog). Master mechanic, MacGyver extraordinaire. If it’s broke, Greg can fix it; if it needs installing or fabricating, he can make it.

The Warehouse…well, it’s our brewery and tasting room. Tip an honest pint at our handmade wood and concrete bar, but notice no chairs! (and unfortunately no darts, shuffleboard or pool) otherwise we'd be an actual bar and we wouldn't want that…wait, actually we would, but the Alcohol and Beverage Commission wouldn’t. It’s 800 ft2 of happiness!