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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Jun- 2024 -12 June
Hometown beer celebrates 10th season
As AleSmith Brewing marks a decade since the debut of San Diego Pale Ale .394, the iconic collaboration with Hall of Famer Tony Gwynn, the brewery is thrilled to announce a special week-long…
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12 June
FOX 5 News: The Craft Beer Experience
The San Diego County Fair is a longtime supporter of local beer, but this year they’re taking that to another level, setting up a special area called The Craft Beer Experience, which…
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11 June
This year’s Homebrew Summer participants
As has been a tradition since 2021, San Diego Beer News put out a call to local breweries to participate in our fourth-annual Homebrew Summer program. Nineteen businesses heeded said call, enthusiastically volunteering to brew…
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10 June
Karl Strauss squares things up
Karl Strauss Brewing, San Diego’s longest continuously operating post-Prohibition brewing company, will release Tower X² Double IPA on draft and in four-packs of 16-ounce cans on at its five San Diego locations on Thursday,…
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10 June
Portrait of a Brewer: Kevin Dougherty, Societe Brewing
There are hundreds of talented brewing professionals giving their all to help maintain the San Diego beer industry’s storied reputation. While these industrious practitioners share numerous similarities, each is their own unique…
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9 June
I Like Beer the Podcast: Chula Vista Brewery
After many months spent galivanting to foreign locales, the ILB team went on a beery quest within the county, heading to Chula Vista to explore its fine suds scene. There, they started…
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8 June
91X Beer for Breakfast: North Park Beer Co.
Of all the brewing outfits in San Diego County, none may be as popular at this precise moment as North Park Beer Co. Launched in its namesake community by award-winning homebrewer Kelsey…
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7 June
Helia Brewing for sale by owner
The fourth quarter of 2023 was an outright depressing time for San Diego County brewing industry professionals as they watched a number of established and even award-winning beer companies yield to the…
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7 June
Beer of the Week: Clara
I’ll admit it. Despite being a devout Padres fan, it took me a while to warm to the home team’s City Connect uniforms. When they were unveiled I think I may have…
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6 June
Sapporo-Stone Brewing promotes CEO from within
In January, Sapporo-Stone Brewing officials embarked on a search for a new chief executive officer to replace outgoing CEO Maria Stipp, following her departure from the company after more than three years…
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