Three beers to look forward to at this weekend’s San Diego International Beer Festival

June 14, 2018 1:40 PM PT

Three beers to look forward to at this weekend’s San Diego International Beer Festival:

Pizza Port: Strong Ale Blend 2017 (Barrel Aged)

Some of San Diego’s best barrel-aged beers come from The Lost Abbey — a division of Pizza Port.

Rouleur: Domestique

Rouleur’s been on an award-winning roll, and this Belgian-style blonde took a bronze medal at this year’s World Beer Cup.

Wild Barrel: Space Juice

I haven’t had a bad beer yet from Wild Barrel, the joint venture of “Dr.” Bill Sysak, Stone’s former beer ambassador, and ace brewer Bill Sobieski.

The festival’s five sessions are noon to 4 p.m. and 5 to 9 p.m. Friday; 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. and 4 to 8 p.m. Saturday; and noon to 4 p.m. Sunday. Tickets start at $60 and can be ordered at sandiegobeerfestival.com/tickets.

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Peter Rowe

Peter joined The San Diego Union-Tribune in 1984. A native Californian who grew up in Encinitas, Rowe is a graduate of UC Berkeley and Northwestern University. He is past president of the National Society of Newspaper Columnists and a former Fulbright scholar. He has won a few journalism awards, but would trade them all for a chance to avenge his 1994 “Jeopardy!” loss. Married to a terrific woman who has saved him from errors in writing and in life, he has three sons. At the U-T, Rowe writes profiles and features and is even paid to review beers, which hardly seems fair.