Mike Hess Brewing - Seaport Village in downtown San Diego's waterfront district operates as a veteran-owned and women-owned brewpub in the Carousel District of Seaport Village near the USS Midway Museum, tracing back to the brewery's 2010 founding as San Diego's first nano-brewery. Twenty-three tap handles pour the brewery's core West Coast IPAs, hazy ales, hard seltzers, and house-brewed root beer alongside rotating seasonals from the North Park production facility, sharing the Seaport Village beverage corridor with San Pasqual Winery | Seaport Village. The brewpub's on-site food partner, Quiero Tacos, serves tacos, burritos, and weekend breakfast starting at 8:30 on the Harbor Drive waterfront, pairing a casual brewpub kitchen with Convention Center and cruise-terminal foot traffic. Annual Hess Fest fundraisers channel proceeds into pediatric cancer research and veteran mental health nonprofits, extending the brewery's community mission across the same Embarcadero corridor where Sally's Waterfront Dining serves its own bayfront guests. Private buyouts of the tasting room and outdoor deck accommodate corporate receptions and rehearsal dinners with custom beer-pairing menus and bayfront sightlines toward Coronado.