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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Jul- 2024 -3 July
Booze Brothers carrying on in Fallbrook
As the name suggests, Booze Brothers Brewing has always been a family affair. The business was founded in Vista by fraternal siblings Donny and David Firth in 2013. Eight years in, the…
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2 July
WestBrew closing venues, focusing on distribution
This time last year, Joshua and Heather Lynn Schreer, the married owners of Vista-based craft-beer company WestBrew, were readying to unveil their extensively remodeled Del Mar bar and restaurant. The relaunch followed…
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1 July
Brewery X opens Harbor Island satellite
Sheraton San Diego Hotel & Marina, a premier waterfront retreat on Harbor Island in the heart of San Diego Bay, today announced the opening of Brewery X Harbor Island, a collaborative venture…
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1 July
Homebrew Summer: Orderville
In addition to pairing local breweries and homebrewers to produce pro-am beers as part of our 2024 Homebrew Summer program, we’ve rounded up homebrew-scaled recipes for some notable San Diego commercial beers.…
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Jun- 2024 -30 June
I Like Beer the Podcast: ILB England
On the recommendation of Captain Kurt of Epic Beer Trips, the ILB team heads to Manchester. No, not New Hampshire…we’re talking the United Kingdom! There, they venture from their home base at…
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29 June
91X Beer for Breakfast: Puesto Cerveceria
We all know that San Diego’s family-run chain of Puesto restaurants puts out stellar Mexican food, but did you know they also produce their own beers from their brewpub in Mission Valley?…
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28 June
Beer of the Week: Hide Site
After seven years at its semi-obscure Miralani Makers’ District headquarters, it’s finally time for Protector Brewery to come out of hiding by grand-opening its new high-profile tasting room on downtown San Diego’s…
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27 June
What’s Tapping (6/27)
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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27 June
Homebrew Summer: Derby Day Debauchery
While one of the primary goals of Homebrew Summer is to provide local homebrewers with an educational experience, many of the professional brewers who have participated in the program over the years…
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26 June
Local breweries upping food options to match the quality of their beer
In the early 2000s, as San Diego’s craft beer scene picked up steam, most local breweries served patrons in bare-bones industrial suites. Even operations like Stone and AleSmith Brewing, which would become…
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