Beer in San Diego County, California the alternative being imported beer from Mexico. But changes in national and state law in the late 1970s made home brewing legal, and in 1982 California allowed breweries to operate restaurants on their premises, which made brewpubs possible. In 1989 the Karl Strauss Brewing Company opened a brewery and brewpub on Columbia Street in Downtown San Diego and expanded into distribution brewing in 1991. This was the first commercial brewery in San Diego since 1953, and for many San Diego consumers it was their first exposure to freshly brewed beer and to styles such as amber lager and pale ale.
University of California, San Diego Reporter" listed the graduate theatre program among the top twenty-five drama schools, placing it fourth. UC San Diego is categorized by "U.S. News & World Report" as "most selective" for college admissions ratings within the United States. For the Fall 2017 admissions cycle, the school received 106,202 applications from both freshman and transfer applicants, the second highest among the University of California campuses. Of those 106,202 applications, 88,463 applications were from prospective freshman with UC San Diego granting admission to just 30,204 applicants giving the institution an acceptance rate of 34.1% for the fall 2017 admission cycle. In 2009, UC