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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Dec- 2020 -21 December
Building the Order of the Anvil
Though a proven source of guaranteed revenue when well executed, membership-based specialty beer clubs are a laborious undertaking for breweries. While number-crunching and logistical analysis are necessary, the real X factor that…
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20 December
Harland Brewing building in Bay Park
In recent years, there are few San Diego brewery-owned spots that have been more highly anticipated, short-lived or lamentedly lost as the Bay Park tasting room constructed by defunct Benchmark Brewing. That…
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18 December
Another Impossible Choice
Over the past year, as Executive Editor of San Diego Beer News, I have spoken extensively with a great many brewery owners who are struggling to contend with numerous facets of the…
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18 December
Beer of the Week: This One Goes to Eleven
From the Beer Writer: I love Christmas, I love Christmas beers and I love collecting (OK, hoarding) things. So, I was thrilled in 2010, when Karl Strauss Brewing released Parrot in a…
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17 December
Latitude 33 enters seltzer market
When someone refers a beer’s tap handle as being “sticky,” they’re not saying it needs a thorough cleaning. This term describes how tough it is for a brewery or distributor sales rep…
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16 December
Athletic Brewing at home on Trade Street
In March, Connecticut-based Athletic Brewing took over the warehouse, barrel-aging and sour-beer production facility formerly occupied by Ballast Point Brewing. Located on Trade Street in Miramar, that building comes in at 80,000…
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15 December
Local brewer giddying up to Austin
It didn’t take long for Dan Anderson to catch the homebrewing bug after moving to San Diego in 2012. And after landing a server job at Gordon Biersch’s Mission Valley brewpub, it…
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14 December
Disc Golf: Par for the Course
Brewing industry professionals have a lot of things in common. Some are predictable, almost expected, like a taste for bold, next-level flavors or a passion for craftsmanship. Then there are shared interests…
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11 December
Scout signs Embolden and New Motion
The pandemic has slowed or shut down many phases of life as we know it, but the ownership team behind Embolden Beer Co. and New Motion Beverages has been operating at warp…
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11 December
Beer of the Week: Night on Ghost Mountain
From the Beer Writer: “Night on Ghost Mountain” by Winslow Sawyer…it sounds like a novelist’s work of fiction. But the creator in this instance is the brewmaster from Miramar’s Pure Project Brewing.…
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