This beer tasting is something unique to San Diego!
It takes four main ingredients to make beer - malt (often barley), hops, yeast, and water. While some advertisers claim that it is the water that makes the best tasting beer, it is actually the yeast. San Diego is blessed to be the home of White Labs. White Labs supplies the yeast used by most home brewers and breweries in the U.S.
In addition to being a yeast supplier, they also have a tasting room. They typically have 24 beers on tap - with two yeast variants of each. 4oz tasters are typically $2.50 with options for full pours. See their beer menu for details. It's a great opportunity to learn more about beer. They even have their own classroom.
White Labs has its own kitchen where they can again show off the joys of yeast. Pizza crust anyone? Check out their food menu. We can talk about all things Tesla (and beer) while we eat lunch.
White Labs provides free tours of their yeast making facility. Those that are interested can follow lunch with the 2pm tour.