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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Nov- 2020 -3 November
Going big and going Green
Belching Beaver Brewery is best known for its well-patronized, accommodating tasting rooms as well as its full-scale indoor-outdoor tavern in Old Town Vista, but the real action—and tons of growth—is taking place…
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2 November
Circle 9 Brewing on the market
When Circle 9 Brewing opened in 2017, it was the seventh brewery to do so in Kearny Mesa. Since then, the area’s fermentation-operation count is down to five, with one planning to…
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2 November
Capital of Craft IPA returns
This Friday will mark the start of the twelfth annual San Diego Beer Week (SDBW), and while COVID restrictions will mandate that it play out differently than in years past, a special…
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1 November
Open and shut in Ocean Beach
Newport Avenue has played home to nearly all of Ocean Beach’s brewery-owned venues: four at its peak, with two more just a block off the main drag. Earlier this year, when Solana…
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Oct- 2020 -30 October
Beer of the Week: Pit BOS
From the Beer Writer: They say you can’t argue with results, and that could be the mantra for this week’s featured beer, Pit BOS from Five Suits Brewing in Vista. Back when…
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29 October
Backyard Burger Beer Bridge Throwdown
Perhaps the most important lesson I ever learned about beer-and-food pairing concerns the “flavor bridge,” a guiding vehicle using logic and taste buds to connect pint to plate. I’ve organized and prepared…
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28 October
Co-Lab collective coming to Vista
While most breweries are focused on weathering the pandemic, there are still beer-making interests that are looking to grow their footprint. Those are the types of operations Joe Deutsch and the team…
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27 October
Multiple Mcilhenney collabs
There’s no getting around it—San Diego Beer Week is going to look a lot different this year. Many events that have taken place year-after-year will be scrapped due to an inability to…
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26 October
Next up for Resident Brewing…
Last week, news broke that Miramar’s Pure Project Brewing is in escrow for the Vista brewery and tasting room formerly occupied by Iron Fist Brewing, which shuttered at the onset of the…
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23 October
Beer of the Week: All In
From the Beer Writer: Packed with residual sugars and fortified with all manner of adjuncts plucked from the confectioner’s pantry, pastry stouts are billed as (and designed to be) “dessert in a…
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