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- 2021 -22 October
Beer of the Week: Reina del Oeste
From the Beer Writer: Last year, South Bay and the San Diego beer scene as a whole received something it had woefully been missing, a Latina-operated brewery. That operation, Mujeres Brew House,…
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21 October
Local 2021 Int’l Beer Comp winners
The winners of the county’s largest annual professional brewing competition, the San Diego International Beer Competition (SDIBC), have been named. Conducted each year as part of the San Diego County Fair, the…
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20 October
A newer form of New English
When New English Brewing debuted in Sorrento Valley in 2007, the local brewery scene was much different. Tasting rooms weren’t the flashy, themed-out, amenity-embellished havens they are now. Brewing company HQs were…
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19 October
Bringing Beer Week home
With a vaccine plus reduced and relaxed restrictions on social-distancing and mass gatherings, many in the brewing industry had hoped to be back in force and in-person this San Diego Beer Week…
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18 October
Portrait of a Brewer: Shawn Mcilhenney, Mcilhenney 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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17 October
Novo Brazil spawning in South Bay
It was two years years ago when Novo Brazil Brewing was announced as part of an upcoming 9,000-square-foot hospitality collective in National City called Market on 8th. The original plan was to…
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15 October
Beer of the Week: Dark Seas
From the Beer Writer: Picture it…North Park, 2010 or 2011. A mid-thirties beer writer walks into a restaurant sporting an extensive beer menu and sees a locally produced imperial stout he really…
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14 October
San Diego On Tap: Burgeon Beer Co.
The latest of Ranch & Coast Magazine‘s series of videos spotlighting members of San Diego’s remarkable craft-brewing community finds host Brandon Hernández in Carlsbad at Burgeon Beer Co. Few local breweries have…
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13 October
MiraCosta brewers crowned champs
As evidenced by the wealth of brewing-competition coverage on this very site, the beer industry is deep into its awards season. Over the past several weeks, winners of the Great American Beer…
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12 October
Craft Q&A: Jeff Alworth
It’s been six years since author Jeff Alworth’s instructional tome, The Beer Bible, was released. Coming in at more than 600 pages filled with well-penned educational prose about ales, lagers, breweries, brewing…
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