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- 2025 -30 January
What’s Tapping (1/30)
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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30 January
Two new cores for Mother Earth
Mother Earth Brew Co. is expanding their year-round lineup with the addition of the outdoorsy, West Coast-Style IPA, Ascent, and a top-shelf German-style Pilsner called All-Purpose. Although Ascent technically soft-launched in the…
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29 January
Harland to replace its Whale with a “banger”
In San Diego, it’s important for a local brewing company to have a bankable West Coast IPA. In the case of sizable operations that distribute their beers on a significant scale, it’s…
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28 January
El Cid Brewing’s owners have a plan…and a plan B
Last summer, Eric Bridges and Terry Kellar were bullish on their 14-month-old North Park business, El Cid Brewing. Located near the intersection of 30th Street and El Cajon Boulevard in the building…
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27 January
Guild names 2025 Board of Directors
The San Diego Brewers Guild, a nonprofit 501(c)(6) organization that promotes local small businesses and entrepreneurs of craft beer, has appointed its 2025 Board of Directors and determined event dates for the calendar…
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27 January
Meet the CCBA’s new executive director
With challenges abounding for craft brewing companies, particularly those operating in heavily regulated California, representation of those businesses by beer-industry trade associations is more important than ever. So, too, is the caliber…
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26 January
I Like Beer the Podcast: Beer in Review
The crew is back in the studio with new beers and some stories to tell, along with friends of the show, The Rotorheads, dropping in to share their new release, “The Beer…
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25 January
91X Beer for Breakfast: Shōgun by Embolden
This week’s episode of Beer for Breakfast features a Miramar-based operation that always provides something both different and delicious, Embolden Beer Co. This time around, the crew tastes through a pair of…
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24 January
Thorn Brewing moving out of Barrio Logan HQ
In 2017, five years after debuting as Thorn Street Brewery in a smallish spot in North Park, Thorn Brewing grew by leaps and bounds, constructing a large production facility equipped with a…
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24 January
Beer of the Week: Invaders from Idaho!
The Pacific Northwest is our country’s premier hop-growing region. Due to the prominence of farms in Washington’s Yakima Valley, that state is synonymous with the word “hops”, with neighboring Oregon also well…
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