San Diego based Modern Times is growing, putting out three new year-round beers recently and expanding into points far beyond Southern California (get ready Vegas), but if you really want to get a sense for what makes this brewery tick, you have to visit one of their two tasting rooms. Actually, you need to visit both. Their Lomaland Fermentorium is 2,000 square feet of quasi warehouse space with 16 taps and some really far out décor. We’re talking monkey mosaics and bathtub tasting rooms. This is where you go if you’re in San Diego and you want to try out some of Modern Times’ one-off experiments and pilot batches. Or you could go to their North Park tasting room, which also has 16 taps pouring experimental brews out the yazoo and some wild décor of its own (upside down lamps, floppy disk art). Check out the gallery to get a peak into the wild, weird, wonderful world of Modern Times.
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The wallpaper in the bathroom.
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Tubby time.
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The monkey is watching you.
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Working on the floppy disk mosaic in North Park.
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From Lomaland's grand opening.
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Drink a beer, read a book.
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That's a hell of a lot of floppy disks.
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Lamps.
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That's a mythical creature, right there.
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The bar at North Park is built with VHS tapes.