We’ll be honest with you: With over 200 events and nearly every beer-loving venue in the city, the agenda for San Diego’s first ever beer week is completely overwhelming to us. We’re guessing we’re not alone, so we’ve studied and contemplated, and narrowed down two separate agendas for two of our favorite types of craft beer lovers: the beer geek (NOT an insult–see here) and the craft-beer-drinking foodie.
For each agenda, we tried to whittle each day down to the events that really matter–although there are still plenty of tough decisions …

Scott Blair and Dennis Borlek (of Hamiltons fame) debuted Small Bar last week, inviting the University Heights neighborhood to take part in San Diego’s growing craft beer scene. It takes very little convincing to visit the place once you know it is being run by Dennis and Blair…but in case you want a few more details, here’s Drink the Craft’s first impression.
We visited on the first Sunday the bar was open, and yet, from the first few minutes of walking in the door we felt like we had been going …