Cheers to Mother Earth Brew Co.'s anniversary with a pint of Big Mother

June 27, 2019 2:30 PM PT

Beer: Big Mother

From: Mother Earth Brew Co., Vista, and Nampa, Idaho

Why: With jaw-dropping fireworks (the Fourth!), parades (Pride!), spectacles (Comic-Con!) and payoffs (the races!), San Diego goes big or goes home every July. There’s no better time to crack open a can of Mother Earth’s massive anniversary ale, a triple IPA overflowing with citrus fruit flavors and exuberant hop bitterness.

Geek out: 10.5 percent alcohol by volume, 125 international bittering units.

Seek out: Mother Earth beers are available in most beer-centric retail outlets. For specialty brews like Big Mother, though, your best chance may be at the Vista tap house.

206 Main St., Vista, 760.295.3074, motherearthbrewco.com

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.

Cheers to Mother Earth Brew Co.’s anniversary with a pint of Big Mother

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