Southern California Coastal Town Has Several Microbreweries & A Beer Tour
I’m attending a Travel Massive event with the host being the destination of Carlsbad, CA.
Travel Massive is a worldwide group of professionals in the travel industry: bloggers, tourism destination boards and PR people. There are chapters all over the globe and I belong to the ones in Los Angeles, Orange County and San Diego.
I’m anxious to get to know more about Carlsbad because about all I know about it is that it’s on the coast north of San Diego, has a lot of car dealerships along the 5 freeway and is the home of the luxurious La Costa golf resort, where people of means way beyond mine – Tiger Woods, Bill Clinton, etc. – go to play.
I almost got to know Carlsbad really well. A few years ago, I interviewed at a PR agency in downtown Los Angeles and La Costa was their big client. I would have been heading up that account. I wound up staying put at the agency I was with at the time and while it was the right decision for the moment it may not have been long-term, for that agency folded soon after it was sold to Chiat/Day.
Anyway, I never got to know Carlsbad and frankly, have never had the incentive to do so; perhaps this Travel Massive introduction will change things for me.
I’ve driven through it a few times and call tell you it’s modern, upscale and quite nice. It’s one of those many towns along the coast road from San Diego to Seal Beach that makes you say “get, I would like to spend time here sometime,” but never stop. I know nothing of its activities, its restaurants or its nightlife.
A quick look at the Visit Carlsbad website reveals it has seven microbreweries, which is quite impressive considering it’s somewhat of a small town. There’s even a beer tour company.
There is also the annual Carlsbad Music Festival (Aug. 24-16 in 2018 and yes, there is a beer garden) and a wine festival in the fall (the Art Rhythm & Wine Festival, Oct. 14-15).
Carlsbad is home to Legoland, but that’s not really of interest to me. The beer, tho, that might be worth tapping into, PubClub style of course.
Cheers!
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