Updated on January 8, 2021 at 10:12 pm
A local brewery started serving in-person customers at three of its San Diego locations on Wednesday in defiance of public health orders.
Mike Hess Brewing, which is anchored by its North Park tasting room and brewery, also has sites in IB and OB, all of which were serving patrons this week, despite state and local public health orders. Under current restrictions, restaurants and breweries are only permitted to conduct to-go sales. Today, we are opening to the public and invite our friends and fans to come in and safely enjoy a well-crafted beer and conversation and exercise your rights as we exercise ours to a peaceful protest and assembly as we get America back to work, the company posted on its social media on Wednesday.
IMPERIAL BEACH (KUSI) – Wednesday is the first day Mike Hess Brewing Company will be open for dining services in defiance of Governor Gavin Newsom’s regional stay-at-home order. Mike Hess Brewing has joined forced with over two hundred other local businesses, being represented by Attorney Michael Curran, who are remaining open as part of a peaceful protest against Newsom’s order.
SAN DIEGO (KUSI) – Mike Hess Brewing is holding its second annual Joy Jar Drive with the Jessie Rees Foundation, Team NEGU (Never Ever Give Up) in December.
They are an organization that sends Joy Jars to kids undergoing Pediatric Cancer treatments which are plastic jars filled with goodies to bring good cheer to the kids. Hess said his daughter Keely was a recipient of these Jars, which get sent out about once every month or two to the kids and even their siblings.
It gives the kids something to look forward to as they explore the assortment of goodies that NEGU stuffs into the jars. It is named after Jessie Rees who died of a brain tumor in 2012, but not before she realized that kids in the hospital have little to be joyful about. So, she started Joy Jars.