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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Feb- 2023 -3 February
Beer of the Week: Black IPA
From the Beer Writer: There was a time when I had zero use for non-alcoholic beverages of any type. To be honest, there’s not much of a call for them in my…
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2 February
What’s Tapping (2/2/23)
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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2 February
Contraction and expansion for Kings & Convicts
In December 2019, virtually unknown Chicago entity Kings & Convicts Brewing rocked the craft-beer industry when it acquired Miramar-based Ballast Point Brewing from Big Beer interest Constellation Brands. In January 2022, the…
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1 February
Mission Brewing heads to Kensington
When Zach Knipe and Andy Rogers opened Kensington Brewing in 2012, its handle was a misnomer as the business was located in Grantville rather than its namesake community. But when long-tenured business…
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Jan- 2023 -31 January
Affection and expansion for Creative Creature
In 2018, entrepreneur Derek Carnation signed on to take over a brewery built into URBN Coal-fired Pizza’s El Cajon location. The facility had previously been used by its parent-company-turned-landlord to produce house…
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30 January
Portrait of a Brewer: Chris Barry, BattleMage 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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29 January
FOX 5: Local Non-alcoholic Beers
We took Dry January as an opportunity to show off how far non-alcoholic beer has come. Gone are the days of thin, skunky “beers” devoid of flavor or any resemblance to ales…
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27 January
Beer of the Week: Hoban House
From the Beer Writer: In 2015, the family behind the venerable Gaslamp Quarter watering hole, The Field, took over a two-story house in the East Village. In it they installed a rather…
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26 January
What’s Tapping (1/26/23)
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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24 January
Toasting to a waste-free anniversary
Of all the types of events breweries put on, few are as highly anticipated by beer fans as anniversary parties. They take all shapes and forms, but are typically a brewing company’s…
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