Poseidon Brewing Company

Despite the fact that it’s not very far off the freeway, it took me awhile to get here because I trusted my GPS which took me some dumb way. Just exit Victoria and go from there. It’s also hard to figure out where exactly you need to go once you arrive at the address, but the tasting room is pretty close to the main road (Olivas Park Dr).

The tasting room itself is pretty nice for a business park brewery. Wooden decor and nautical decorations everywhere. Neat. There’s a number of small tables and a small bar as well.

They had a pretty good selection during my stop, 9 beers, though one or two of them were on nitro as well as CO2. They do flights, but if you’re trying everything it’s a lot of beer. I bargained with them to do half-tasters of each of the beers, which they thought was really weird and admittedly it is. Overall beer quality was not great, though their Grapefruit IPA was pretty decent.

Really good service, though. And the place is clean and nice to hang out in.

Visited December 14, 2014.

I heard about this on my last trip up 101 while at brewLAB in Carpenteria. There was a guy there with a short bus parked out back that does brewery tours and he said that he had just come from Poseidon. This makes three breweries in Ventura now, with three more in the works (Sessions, Topa Topa, and another one that I can’t remember). This brewery is hidden all the way in the back of a long industrial business park No signs out front so check the map / GPS. Inside is a smallish tasting room with a couple of windows to the brewing area; one looking into the cooler where they serve from tanks and cold crash, and the other where the brewing and fermentation happens. The furniture is all wood. They have a small dog that runs around but I’m not sure if they allow other dogs. Naturally everything is nautical themed. Turns out that the owner/brewer is or was a sailor in the navy.

They had about a dozen beers on during my visit. I tried a taster of all of them, for $2 a piece. Not really possible to finish 50 oz of beer but they didn’t seem to mind the fact that I only had about half of each taster. My three favorites were the grapefruit IPA, the Belgian IPA, and the pale ale. My least favorite was the porter or the marzen. They seem to rotate beers quite often, so they’re definitely good for ticks if you’re passing through.

I’ll stop in again eventually when I check out some of the new breweries in the area as they open. Oh, and they’re next door to a coffee place so you can check that out if you’re into the whole cold pressed coffee thing.