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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Jan- 2021 -4 January
Nominate your favorite beers and breweries
Today marks the start of the nomination period for the San Diego Beer News Awards, a first-of-its-kind all-San-Diego competition drawing on opinions from beer fans and brewery personnel to recognize standout beers,…
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Dec- 2020 -31 December
Beer of the Week: La Flama Blanca
From the Beer Writer: As evidenced right on this website when San Diego Beer News staffers shared the beers they plan on drinking on New Year’s Eve, the last night of the…
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30 December
FOX 5: Local Beers for New Year’s Eve
With two days left in 2020, San Diego Beer News founder and Executive Editor Brandon Hernández chatted with FOX 5 San Diego Morning News anchor Kristina Audencial about a quartet of beers…
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30 December
What are you drinking New Year’s Eve?
Special-occasion beers vary from person-to-person and make great substitutes for sparkling wine come the close of the year. As we close the book on 2020, a year that was undeniably challenging but…
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29 December
Craft Q&A: Kelsey McNair
In 2012, when Kelsey McNair was writing the business plan for North Park Beer Co. (NPBC), he envisioned bottling would be an accessory to his taproom’s draft business rather than a primary…
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28 December
The San Diego Beer News Awards
Brewing competitions like the world-famous Great American Beer Festival (GABF) and locally significant San Diego International Beer Competition recognize excellence in craftsmanship while providing excitement and entertainment for brewers and beer fans…
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24 December
Pure Project sets sights on North Park
In spite of the challenges the craft-brewing industry has faced in 2020, this has been a year of positive change and phenomenal growth for Pure Project Brewing. The nearly five-year-old company opened…
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24 December
Beer of the Week: Ol’ Nessie
From the Beer Writer: When winter rolls around, even in seemingly never-sub-sixty San Diego, many beer drinkers take the opportunity to switch up their imbibing habits, taking a break from crisp, golden-hued…
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22 December
San Marcos Brewery closes
San Diego beer fans are familiar with most of the breweries that opened in the 1990’s and helped pave the way for the many craft-beer operations that would follow. AleSmith, Ballast Point,…
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22 December
Chula Vista Brewery adds big talent
Even in the midst of a pandemic, while pivoting then pivoting then pivoting again, Timothy Parker has forged ahead with plans to expand his business, Chula Vista Brewery (CVB), by opening a…
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