Opening day of classes for the fall term at San Diego State University on Aug. 24, 2024. SDSU is phasing out its beer business classes. Since 2013, State has offered a series of class that led to professional certificates in this area. The 2024-25 program, which begins next week and runs through next spring, will be the last.“It’s a huge loss,” said one of the instructors, Gonzalo Quintero, a veteran craft beer insider who had applied to become the program coordinator.
Then he suggests two options: 1. Visit a great beer bar — he cites O’Brien’s, Pacific Beach AleHouse and West Coast BBQ & Beer — to sample local brews. 2. Check out a brewery’s tap room. Which tap room? Turner didn’t play favorites: “Our 30th Street area has multiple examples.”Here’s why: in July, my father died suddenly , but not surprisingly . With family, I needed time to settle his affairs.
He also taught me how to drink beer. From boyhood, I often saw him enjoy a pint — or a 12-ounce can of bargain brew — at dinner. At the last meal we shared, in fact, he ordered Peruvian scallops and a Pacifico Clara Lager.