Brandon Hernández

San Diego Beer News was founded by native San Diegan Brandon Hernández, an award-winning journalist and author who has covered the local brewing industry for 19 years and written a pair of guides to the county’s breweries. He is currently an on-air craft beer correspondent for FOX 5 San Diego, co-host of 91X FM‘s weekly Beer for Breakfast segments, booker for ALT 94.9 FM‘s beer-centric Rock & Roll Happy Hour segments, a contributor on the brewing industry for The San Diego Union-Tribune, Edible San Diego Magazine and Brewers Association publication The New Brewer, Food and Beverage Editor for Ranch & Coast Magazine, and a travel-content contributor for CraftBeer.com. Additionally, he spent a decade as Senior Editor for West Coaster Magazine, was the first-ever beer columnist for the San Diego Reader, San Diego Magazine and Pacific San Diego Magazine, and served as the San Diego columnist for Celebrator Beer News, as well as an on-air craft-beer contributor for CW6 San Diego. He has served as a consultant for Food Network and Zagat, and his work has been featured in USA Today, All About Beer Magazine, Beer Magazine, The Beer Connoisseur Magazine, Beer West Magazine, Craft Beer & Brewing Magazine, Imbibe Magazine, Full Pour Magazine, The Full Pint, Beer Paper L.A., Modern Luxury Magazine, The Los Angeles Times, Wine Enthusiast Magazine and more. He also worked in the beer industry for seven years in marketing positions for Stone Brewing, AleSmith Brewing and Societe Brewing, is the founder of the Beer to the Rescue charity campaign benefiting the Lupus Foundation of Southern California, and was presented with the 2024 Craft Beer Pioneer Award at the Brewers Cup of California Competition. Through his passion and plethora of close, long-held relationships with beermakers and beer fans, he relishes telling the ongoing, glorious story of beer in America’s Finest City.