Modern Times Beer
Modern Times was founded in San Diego by Jacob McKean and brewed its first batch in May 2013 on a 30-barrel system in Point Loma, opening its Lomaland Fermentorium tasting room that summer. The name refers to a utopian community of the 1850s, and most beers are named after real or mythical utopias. Maui Brewing's parent Craft 'Ohana took over the company in 2022; since late 2024 the beer has been contract-brewed at AleSmith in Miramar, while the brand runs its own pubs and a coffee roastery.
Beers by Modern Times Beer
16 beers
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The recurring character behind the beers
Modern Times Beer brew across 5 style families.
Across these 16 beers, 4 notes keep showing up:
Four notes carry across the range. That's a tight house style — most breweries in the catalogue share just one.
Compared with the wider catalogue of similar styles:
They stay close to the peer baseline on their recurring notes.
How we measure this
Two thresholds are at work here:
- The signature list shows notes that recur in at least 6% of this brewery's beers. A low bar — enough to flag a pattern, not high enough to call it an exclusive trait.
- The peer comparison below shows only notes where this brewery's coverage differs from similar breweries by at least 20 percentage points. A higher bar — enough to call a real difference, not a nudge.
A note can appear on the signature list without appearing in the peer comparison: it recurs here, but similar breweries do the same thing.
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About Modern Times Beer
Modern Times was founded in San Diego by Jacob McKean and brewed its first batch in May 2013 on a 30-barrel system in Point Loma, opening its Lomaland Fermentorium tasting room that summer. The name refers to a utopian community of the 1850s, and most beers are named after real or mythical utopias. Maui Brewing's parent Craft 'Ohana took over the company in 2022; since late 2024 the beer has been contract-brewed at AleSmith in Miramar, while the brand runs its own pubs and a coffee roastery.
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