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- 2021 -6 May
Brewer’s Deck set to debut
Two years ago, developers announced plans for a $120 million renovative construction project that would add 120,000 square feet of retail space at Carmel Valley’s Del Mar Highlands Town Center. The project,…
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5 May
Reviving Oceanside Ale Works
Oceanside is home to 13 breweries and brewery-owned venues, but before any of them existed, there was Oceanside Ale Works (OAW). That operation was largely brought to life by former high-school teacher,…
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4 May
FOX 5: New Local Brewery Venues
The FOX 5 San Diego Morning News‘ latest San Diego Beer News segment provides details on four recently opened breweries and tasting rooms from Pure Project Brewing, One Season Brewing, Harland Brewing,…
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4 May
California Wild Ales opening in OB
They say timing is everything, and that’s certainly the case where California Wild Ales’ new tasting room in Ocean Beach is concerned. Founders Bill DeWitt and Zack Brager have been hard at…
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3 May
Sweet Homebrew San Diego!
As part of our San Diego Homebrew Summer program, a dozen local breweries have agreed to bring county homebrewers’ recipes to life by brewing them at their facilities and releasing them to…
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Apr- 2021 -30 April
Beer of the Week: Barrel-aged Baba Yaga
From the Beer Writer: From the Beer Writer: What’s in a name? If you’re a brewery in a county awash in suds sporting over 150 operating brewhouses and even more brewery-owned public…
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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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