Aztec Brewing Co. Review (Vista Breweries)

Pricing:

About $6 for a pint.  You can taste four of their beers for $5.  Each "taste" is about 3 oz of beer.  

Distance:

Located in Vista.  Takes about 25 minutes to drive there.  You can either take the freeway or go on El Camino Real.  El Camino would be faster if there's traffic.  

Thoughts:

So I've decided to continue my microbrewery tour of San Diego.  I did this once before back in 2010 but in the last two years the microbrewing business seems to have exploded.  Apparently we are now beer country.  You'll get no complaints from me!

Aztec, like many other microbreweries, is a taproom rather than a sit down restaurant.  There was a food cart there but don't expect to see it every time.  But don't feel like it's a waste of a drive!  It's actually in an area where there are several other microbreweries and it's within spitting distance of San Marcos restaurant row.

They have eight different beers on tap at Aztec.  A few of the flavors do rotate in and out but there seems to be an emphasis on wheat and IPA beers.  I'm not generally one for IPAs.  So for my taster line-up I tried their one amber ale, two wheats and their blonde ale.  


None of the beers were very dark but I was impressed with how much flavor each one packed.  Their wheat beers were especially interesting.  Both of them had strong floral/herbal flavors laced through them making the taste very unique.


The atmosphere is laid back and fun.  Aztec is definitely a brewery worth checking out if you have no Friday or Saturday plans.