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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Dec- 2021 -10 December
Beer of the Week: Beer of the Rising Sun
From the Beer Writer: The holidays are upon us, which means brewers are breaking out their recipes for darker, maltier, spiced and higher-alcohol beers. ‘Tis the season after all, and such warming…
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9 December
The 12 Beers of Christmas – Part 1
In 2010, Karl Strauss Brewing embarked on an ambitious, holiday-inspired mission to spend the next dozen years releasing “12 beers of Christmas”. Brewing beers is nothing new for a brewery, but Brewmaster…
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8 December
Blending up something entirely new
Vista-based Pure Project Brewing produces all manner of beer. Perhaps the most skillful of them all is Lief, which is built off wort that is left outside to spontaneously ferment in different…
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7 December
Burgeon Beer is five and alive
When it comes to beer festivals, there are those of the dime-a-dozen variety; the types that are just fine but basically mirror each other, offering the same beers and the same basic…
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6 December
Portrait of a Brewer: Sean Haggerty, Protector Brewery
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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3 December
Beer of the Week: Crooked Tree
From the Beer Writer: In some cases, a beer goes far beyond the boundaries of great taste and thirst-slaking. Such is the case with this week’s featured beer, Crooked Tree IPA. For…
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1 December
4DUDESBREW debuting this Friday
Most of the time, collaboration beers bring professional brewers together to share methodologies in the creation of a one-off ale or lager, but a recent collab at My Yard Live Beer Co.…
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Nov- 2021 -30 November
Suds Survival Stories
To the untrained eye, most brewing companies seem pretty much the same, but now more than ever, there is great variance from business-to-business in size (both large and small), service models and…
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29 November
Portrait of a Brewer: Kevin Barnes, Two Roots 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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26 November
Beer of the Week: Xocoveza Tres Leches
From the Beer Writer: ‘Tis the day after Thanksgiving and it’s likely the last thing you want to think about after a gluttonous day capped off by a dense wedge of pie…
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