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.
San Diego–Tijuana Mountain Empire. The region is home to over twenty higher education schools including numerous universities, private, and state colleges and maintains an excellent educational infrastructure. Tijuana is home to high ranked national colleges and universities and San Diego is ninth most educated city in the United States. Notable schools included the Autonomous University of Baja California, Tijuana; Ibero-American University, Tijuana; CETYS University, Tijuana; University of San Diego (USD); San Diego State University; University of California, San Diego (UCSD); California Western School of Law; Thomas Jefferson School of Law; and UCSD School of Medicine. Of the colleges in San Diego–Tijuana, UCSD