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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Apr- 2021 -28 April
A second exit from North Park
When longtime North Park bar and restaurant Waypoint Public shuttered last September, owner John Pani reached out to friends and fellow business owners Todd Warshaw and Stephanie Eppig to see if they’d…
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27 April
Craft Q&A: Chris Brown
The Oceanside brewpub that was the original base of operations for Mason Ale Works (which moved out when its parent company closed the Urge Gastropub and Whiskey Bank that housed it in…
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26 April
The rise of Vista’s booming beer scene
Early entrants to San Diego’s brewing industry largely set up shop downtown or in coastal communities, but it wasn’t long before craft-beer entrepreneurs sought to site their businesses all throughout the county.…
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23 April
Belching Beaver adding speakeasy
The Prohibition Era’s speakeasy concept has enjoyed a renaissance over the past decade or so. Even breweries—businesses where consumption of alcoholic beverages is the obvious lure—have taken to this archetype for undercover…
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22 April
Of Ducks and Wolves
Not every collaboration brew involves a pair of breweries working together to forge a beer. Sometimes celebrities get involved. People from all walks of life enjoy beer, including musicians. Numerous San Diego…
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21 April
History: Springtime in Bavaria…circa 1553
By Shannon Lynnette Hail Ostara! Bringer of sun beams; Proctor of squalls; Harbinger of Life. Gone are the arduous sorrows of Winter; ardent is the benevolence of Spring. Ready your hearty salutations,…
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20 April
Mcilhenney Brewing arriving in May
January 2020 seems eons removed from the world we’re all living in, especially for a certain family well known among craft-beer enthusiasts. That clan, the Mcilhenneys, seemed to have everything going for…
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19 April
Clubbing with Vikings
Members-only beer clubs have long been a valuable tool for craft breweries, but perhaps never so much as during the pandemic. Clubs allow breweries to obtain money up front for the promise…
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16 April
Longship Brewery to close permanently
The pandemic has been challenging for every brewery in San Diego County and beyond. Considering the plethora of obstacles such as spikes in COVID-19 infection rates, loss of draft-account revenue and ever-changing…
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14 April
Beer & Food: The more people at the table the better
By Chris Leguizamon With an overflowing cornucopia of culturally varied culinary offerings, San Diego is a food lover’s paradise. Recently, I was inspired by having so many diverse delicacies in such close…
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