Rip Current Brewing

Go Against the Flow

Archives for December 2023

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Barrel Blast in North Park

This final week of 2023, we are pulling together a menu of many of our best barrel-aged beers to help you ring in the new year. This list will be available starting on Friday (December 29th)! We hope you will join us to responsibly taste several beers from the attached menu and order some crowlers (or growlers!) to go. Yes, we are filling growlers with our barrel-aged gems as we ramp down Rip Current beers through December and into January. Stock up so you can enjoy these for the rest of 2024! Note this menu will change over time as you blow the final kegs!

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Final Barrel-aged Beers in San Marcos

As we approach our last day pouring in San Marcos, we are loading up the taps with our best vintage barrel-aged beers! Have you ever seen a larger list? Please come see us and sample responsibly and then take home a few crowlers of your favorites! We will remain open in North Park through the holiday season.

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Rip Current is Closing

We are sorry to post that we are selling Rip Current Brewing and will be closing both locations during December. The last few years dealing with COVID and the aftermath have been too financially challenging for us to continue. However, I’m pleased to say that another great brewery will be filling our space in San Marcos … Craft Coast (from Oceanside)! They make tasty award-winning beer, so I’m sure you will enjoy their new location when it re-opens after some updates.

In 2011, two home brewers from Quaff Homebrew Society of Barley Engineers San Diego Brewers Guild fulfilled a lifelong dream to open our own brewery. After the build out, we were so excited to open our doors in December of 2012. Guy Shobe and Paul Sangster oversaw Rip Current for many years and had help from so great people that were owners, employees or friends during those years. We are pleased that many have gone on to successful roles with other breweries on the west coast.


After 11 years, we will be closing our San Marcos location. It’s hard to sum up how appreciative we are to the many of you who came through our doors regularly and let us enter a small part of your life. We heard many great stories, shared some amazing beers and enjoyed getting to know so many of you. Thank you so much for your support over the years!

Our San Marcos location will be closing on Friday, December 15th. Paul be bartending that day and looks forward to pouring you a couple and perhaps filling some crowlers or growlers to go. We would love to get our beer into your refrigerators as they can’t stay in our cold room much longer.

The Rip Current North Park location will be staying open until Dec 30th, so we hope to see you there as well. Both locations will be pouring a bunch of our beers including quite a few vintage (rare) barrel-aged beers and offering to-go specials.