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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Oct- 2025 -23 October
Beer Gram launching October 31
This Halloween, the craft-beer industry welcomes a game-changer. Beer Gram, a new all-in-one digital ecosystem built exclusively for breweries, officially launches on Hoppy Halloween 2025, delivering free digital menu boards, a brewery-centric…
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23 October
What’s Tapping (10/23)
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, including links where you can find…
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22 October
Industry vet launches beer-biz podcast
When Kamron Khannakhjavani started in the beer industry, he was assisting with one-barrel brew days and helping run the homebrew-supply store at his family’s nanobrewery. That was 2010. Since then, the business…
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21 October
Beer Girl signs with Karl Strauss
Karl Strauss Distributing (KSD), the distribution arm of San Diego’s original craft brewery, is proud to announce a new partnership with Orange County’s Beer Girl Brewing. Under the agreement, KSD will distribute Beer Girl’s…
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21 October
Beer Briefs: Brewer relo, wet-hop wins and an ABC suspension
From news about people and places in the local beer community to what may be the very last round of professional brewing awards doled out in 2025, we have plenty to share…
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20 October
Praising the Bar: Mcilhenney Brewing
Since opening as the second coming of San Diego’s first family of hop innovation in 2021, Mcilhenney Brewing has recemented itself as an East County gem worth charting a course for. Its…
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19 October
I Like Beer the Podcast: Hunters for Beer
The ILB team makes their long-awaited return to the studio to meet up with producers Joe and Mateo over Oktoberfest beer selections hailing from San Diego (AleSmith Brewing, Karl Strauss Brewing) and…
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18 October
91X Beer for Breakfast: Lightning Brewery
It’s one of the county’s smallest beer-making operations, Poway’s lone brewing concern, and it’s been going strong for nearly 20 years. An institution that was all about German lagers before they became…
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17 October
Beer of the Week: 9th Anniversary IPA
Palates are like personalities – everybody’s is unique. Our taste buds react differently to individual stimuli. Some flavors come across as more intense while others may not register at all. In the…
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16 October
Introducing Stone Delicious Tropical IPA
Stone Brewing, among the world’s most renowned IPA breweries, introduces a new addition to its popular lineup of Delicious IPAs. Stone Delicious Tropical IPA is now available exclusively in the Stone Delicious IPA Mixed…
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