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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Apr- 2025 -11 April
Beer of the Week: Shoot from the Hip
There’s no industry quite like craft brewing. Beyond the sharing of would-be trade secrets, ingredients and equipment, and beer companies’ unabashed affinity for one another and their products, individuals from different businesses…
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10 April
What’s Tapping (4/10)
Welcome to San Diego Beer News‘ weekly list of beers tapping for the first time or returning to beer lists at breweries throughout San Diego County, including links where you can find…
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10 April
FOX 5 Morning News: East Village Pre-game Spots
The San Diego Padres are off to a historically good start, leading the pack in the National League West as of the time of this writing. That means more sell-outs at Petco…
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9 April
New name, same San Diego dominance!
San Diego’s largest and most prestigious brewing competition not only has a brand-new scoring system, having adopted the same model as the Great American Beer Festival and World Beer Cup, it also…
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8 April
White Labs celebrates 30 years of innovation
It’s midafternoon on a weekday in 1994. A lanky young man is huddled in a phone booth, the receiver sandwiched between his ear and shoulder as the mercenary device sounds out ring…
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7 April
Portrait of a Brewer: Donny Firth, Booze Brothers 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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6 April
I Like Beer the Podcasts: Anchorman & April Fool’s
This week, the Jeffs reconvene after executing an Anchorman-style takeover at Societe Brewing during the 2025 San Diego Beer News Awards ceremony. That comedic effort seems an apt segue to a replay…
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5 April
91X Beer for Breakfast – North Park Festival of Beers
Today marks the return of one of San Diego’s longest running, grandest annual ale-and-lager affairs, the North Park Festival of Beers. Taking place in front of the historic Lafayette Hotel, it will…
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4 April
Beer of the Week: Padre Pils
Admit it. After a relatively uneventful offseason (by A.J. Preller standards, anyway) marked more by ownership infighting than blockbuster trades and free-agent signings, you were at least a little concerned about our…
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3 April
What’s Tapping (4/3)
Welcome to San Diego Beer News‘ weekly list of beers tapping for the first time or returning to beer lists at breweries throughout San Diego County, including links where you can find…
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