About Modern Times Beer

We focus (non-monogamously) on aroma-driven, complex, flavorful, sessionish beers. We often brew hybrid styles, combining the features we like from established categories to create new, Island-Of-Doctor-Moreau-style mash-ups.

Fortunate Islands combines the mildly nutty malt body of a wheat beer with the intensely bright, citrusy hoppiness of a righteous IPA. Black House has the full-body, robust chocolatey flavor, and intense coffee aroma of its imperial counterparts, but packed into a 5.8% ABV package. Blazing World combines the subtly fruity qualities of a dry amber ale with the enormous hop-profile of an über-dank double IPA.

Lomaland, our flagship saison, isn’t so much a hybrid, as a return to origin—a quenching, sessionable, farmhouse libation. Sporting a mixed grain bill and fermented with a blend of Belgian yeast strains, Lomaland offers the complexity and nuance of the most traditional examples of the style. We like to think that it’s so traditional, it’s avant-garde.

We also brew loads of special release and one-offs batches, allowing us to pursue our various whims. We have a tank dedicated to beers fermented with Brettanomyces—an alternative yeast strain capable of producing wildly distinct flavors—and our sour programs is just getting off the ground.

Our tasting room is where we test different concepts, from variations on our core beers to experimental pilot batches. We hope to release some our more successful experiments in cans and bottles in the coming years.


Beers made by Modern Times Beer

Aurora

Rye Beer

Black House

Oatmeal Stout

Blazing World

American Amber / Red Ale

City Of The Dead

Foreign / Export Stout

Cosmic Rays

American IPA

Fortunate Islands

American Pale Wheat Ale

Fruitlands

Fruit / Vegetable Beer

Lomaland

Saison / Farmhouse Ale

Orderville

American IPA

Booming Rollers

Seasonal American IPA

City Of The Sun

Seasonal American IPA

Critical Band

Seasonal American IPA

Drop Art

Seasonal Saison / Farmhouse Ale

Dymaxion

Seasonal American Pale Ale (APA)

Geodesic

Seasonal American IPA

Haunted Stars

Seasonal American Porter

Ice

Seasonal Czech Pilsner

Mega Blazing World

Seasonal American Double / Imperial IPA

Nitro Black House

Seasonal Oatmeal Stout

Oneida

Seasonal American Pale Ale (APA)

Rowing Needles

Seasonal Berliner Weissbier

Spaceship Earth

Seasonal American Pale Ale (APA)

Tetra City

Seasonal American Double / Imperial IPA

Triton Project

Seasonal American IPA

World Game

Seasonal American Blonde Ale

Brewery Contact

Phone Number

+1-619-546-9694



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