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Nerd Night at Twisted Horn — Monthly Mead and Gaming 2026
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Nerd Night at Twisted Horn — Monthly Mead and Gaming 2026

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You show up, order a mead, and spend the next three hours arguing about the rules with people who have been doing this every month long enough that the argument itself is the tradition.

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Saturday, June 20, 2026
5:00 PM PDT – 10:00 PM PDT
Twisted Horn Mead & Cider, 1042 La Mirada Ct, Vista, CA 92081
Repeats monthly · until Dec 31, 2026
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What it was like

Nerd Night at Twisted Horn Mead & Cider in Murrieta is a monthly gathering of board game players, tabletop RPG enthusiasts, miniature painters, and anyone who considers themselves a nerd in the specifically affectionate Southern California sense of the word. Twisted Horn's taproom provides the setting: a mead and cider brewery with long communal tables perfect for spreading out rulebooks and game components, a rotation of on-tap meaderies, and an atmosphere that encourages the kind of long, extended gameplay sessions that require a home base.

The monthly Nerd Night format is deliberately informal — no organized tournament, no scheduled game, no entry requirement beyond showing up. The regulars bring games from their own collections, introduce newcomers to titles they love, and occasionally a painting station appears in the corner where someone is working on miniatures between turns. Twisted Horn's staff runs the evening with the understanding that three-hour Twilight Imperium sessions are the expected use case for this space.

Twisted Horn Mead & Cider is at 40530 California Oaks Rd #A in Murrieta, in the Murrieta Wine Country area near the Temecula border. Parking in the surrounding commercial lot. 21+ establishment; food available from the taproom kitchen and rotating food trucks. Check Twisted Horn's social accounts and events calendar for the specific Nerd Night dates each month — typically second or third Saturday evenings.

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