BEER NEWS
San Diego Beer News provides regular reporting on the county’s craft-brewing industry and its 200-plus brewery-owned venues, along with a variety of features and coverage of the area’s world-famous craft-beer culture. The following is a collection of articles and other content presented in chronological order dating back to San Diego Beer News’ inception in 2020.
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May- 2023 -16 May
Catching up on closures
By and large, local breweries have proven to be extremely resilient over the past few years, employing ingenuity and elbow grease to weather a host of storms which have included a global…
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15 May
Portrait of a Brewer: Aeryk Heeg, Black Plague Brewing
There are hundreds of hard-working brewing professionals giving their all to help maintain the storied reputation San Diego’s brewing scene has earned over the past several decades. Some have risen to great…
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12 May
Beer of the Week: Diamond Dust
From the Beer Writer: These days it’s common–not to mention a lot of fun–to see breweries experimenting with IPA hop-bills on a frequent basis. Frequent as in every week or two. Whereas…
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11 May
What’s Tapping (5/11/23)
Welcome to San Diego Beer News‘ weekly list of beers tapping for the first time or returning to beer lists at breweries throughout San Diego County. For more details regarding release/tapping dates,…
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10 May
2023 World Beer Cup winners
Organized by U.S. trade organization, the Brewers Association (BA), the World Beer Cup is the largest international brewing competition in the world. Since its inception in 1996, the “Olympics of beer” has…
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10 May
Stone Brewing debuts Downunderstruck
Celebrated for its unforgettable innovations, Stone Brewing continues its re-brews of Fan Favorites. Stone Downunderstruck IPA–a rebrew of the classic Stone 19th Anniversary Thunderstruck IPA–is now available nationwide. This latest release was first brewed in 2015 and…
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10 May
Modernizing a craft-beer masterwork
A 22-year-old armed with a journalism degree but no idea how to use it, Joshua M. Bernstein moved to New York City at the turn of the century, working temp receptionist gigs…
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8 May
Portrait of a Brewer: Andrew Kelly, Embolden Beer Co.
There are hundreds of hard-working brewing professionals giving their all to help maintain the storied reputation San Diego’s brewing scene has earned over the past several decades. Some have risen to great…
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5 May
New releases from OG40
Later today, The Original 40 Brewing will release Space Metal Fantasy Vol. 2, a double dry-hopped West Coast double IPA at its North Park tasting room. The brewery will also release 2 Legit…
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5 May
Beer of the Week: Ca$h Money
From the Beer Writer: From the Beer Writer: Being of a certain age (I’m not saying I’m old, just…not young), I’ve been able to watch the West Coast IPA rise to prominence…
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