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- 2026 -9 May
91X Beer for Breakfast: The Lost Abbey Brewing
Twenty years in the craft-beer industry is nothing to sneeze at, but it’s definitely something to raise a glass to! So, the BFB crew does just that, not once but twice, in honor…
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8 May
Beer of the Week: Duck Duck Kriek
It seems like only yesterday I was introduced to The Lost Abbey. My first encounter didn’t come via a tap list or one of the company’s continental-style corked-and-caged bottles featuring Catholicism-steeped paintings…
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7 May
What’s Tapping (5/7/26)
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, including links where you can find…
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6 May
FOX 5 Morning News: Local Beer News
With so much going on in the local beer industry, FOX 5 invited San Diego Beer News founder Brandon Hernández to the news desk to share about the latest developments in the…
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5 May
Beer Briefs: Back in Black
Oftentimes, our Beer Briefs roundups are a mixed bag of good and bad news, but today we’re pleased to present three items that are 100% positive and, dare we say, rather exciting.…
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4 May
Pizza Port alums ready to debut Koakai Brewing
Mike and Tomomi “AJ” Aubuchon are used to working side-by-side. They’ve been doing so since 2010, when the now-marrieds worked at Pizza Port’s Carlsbad Village brewpub, with him in the brewhouse and…
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3 May
Las Vegas Beer News (May 2026)
World Beer Cup Winners Mojave Brewing’s Andy Kohon (left) & John “Griff” Griffith The World Beer Cup (WBC), the world’s largest and most prestigious international brewing competition (often referred to as “The…
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2 May
91X Beer for Breakfast: All Things Agave
Few brewers have had the overwhelming impact on the local beer scene that Colby Chandler has. In addition to a quarter-century of production and recipe development for Ballast Point Brewing, which included co-creation of the…
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1 May
Beer of the Week: Can We Be Friends?
Last week, an IPA with a name referencing a ‘90s-era video game made for a particularly fun writing project for yours truly. I had a blast thinking back to some of the…
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Apr- 2026 -30 April
What’s Tapping (4/30/26)
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, including links where you can find…
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