Pure Project Reveals 40-Tap Bankers Hill Tasting Room | Eater San Diego

"Located in The Park on Fifth Avenue in Bankers Hill, Pure Project Brewing’s new 2,000-square-foot tasting room — the brewery’s first offshoot from its Miramar base — opens to the public Friday, August 2, with daily hours starting at 3 p.m. on Mondays and noon Tuesday through Sunday. The 40-tap satellite pours Pure Project’s core lineup with a special focus on sours and other barrel-aged specialties; for the opening, head brewer Winslow Sawyer is featuring a barrel-aged stout called Silvergate, a once-proposed name for neighboring Balboa Park. Some snacks will be available and guests are allowed to bring in outside food, while the brewery is partnering with nearby eateries (co-founder Mat Robar notes Barrio Star is offering a small bites menu for delivery to the tasting room). Designed with Tec/scape Design, CLTVT, and J3 Products Group, the space reflects an environmentally focused ethos that mixes rustic elements with modern materials — 20-foot slabs from a naturally felled Torrey Pine combine with quartz for the bar tops and a communal river table, concrete columns are wrapped with wood and hung with leafy planters, and reclaimed Torrey Pine and plants appear at every turn. The taproom, adjacent to Balboa Park and the San Diego Zoo, feels filled with smiling faces, cold beer, unmistakable Pure Project vibes, and includes a 1,000-square-foot outdoor patio with cozy furniture and a cool breeze off San Diego Bay. The brewery is also hoping to open another tasting room on State Street in Carlsbad; that proposal has passed the local planning commission and is awaiting city council approval, and Urban Strategies Group represented the landlord on the Bankers Hill project." - Candice Woo