It is distilled in San Marcos and bottled in Mira Loma. The result was 70-proof whiskey with natural peanut butter flavor. Brittany, who has a masters in chemistry and a law degree, turned her focus entirely on Skrewball. Now they were spouses and business partners. The Yengs met as children and began dating in high school. Mixing the cocktail with oily, goopy peanut butter was a messy task, and the couple soon learned that the recipe would have to be significantly altered to be shelf-stable for mass production. Two other Ocean Beach venues followed: OB Noodle House Bar 1502 and The Holding Company.īehind the bar, Yeng reached back to his childhood, combining his old favorite ingredient with whiskey for a creamy signature shot. In 2008 - still one class away from graduating from UC San Diego - Yeng opened his own restaurant, OB Noodle House. The shop served as Yeng’s de-facto business school. His parents, butchers in Cambodia, worked at O.B. In a video discussing the origins of Skrewball, Yeng referred to peanut butter as “the taste of freedom for me.” ![]() “It’s the most amazing thing I’ve ever had.” ![]() ![]() “The first time I tasted it I was like, ‘Holy crap, what is this?’” Yeng remembered. A staple was peanut butter-and-jelly sandwiches on wheat bread. Yeng, his parents and siblings slept on mattresses in an Ocean Beach garage and ate from food baskets donated by a local church. (Howard Lipin/The San Diego-Union-Tribune)
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