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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Feb- 2026 -3 February
San Diego breweries help fans earn their beer
By far the loudest ovation at last year’s San Diego Beer News Awards ceremony – an event that always features plenty of energetic crowd participation – was when the winner of the…
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2 February
Brewers Guild partners with local podcasters
If you’re reading this, it’s very likely that you like beer. So, too, do Jeff Spanier and Jeff Riccitelli. Known simply across the virtual airwaves as “The Jeffs”, they and colleagues Tod…
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1 February
Las Vegas Beer News (February 2026)
By Bob Barnes, Las Vegas Correspondent Modest Brewing now open with a 100% local beer list The Las Vegas Arts District has another new brewery. After years of planning, the dreams of…
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Jan- 2026 -31 January
91X Beer for Breakfast: Hopnonymous Brewing
In 2019, Hopnonymous Brewing arrived in Kearny Mesa as a complete unknown. More than six years later, it’s one of the biggest cult-favorite beer operations in suds-drenched San Diego, thanks in large part to…
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30 January
Beer of the Week: Rye’d the Wave
With three locations in the South Bay alone, plus three more venues (two of which are large bar-and-restaurant spaces in Mission Valley and San Antonio, Texas), Novo Brazil Brewing is a sizable…
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29 January
What’s Tapping (1/29/26)
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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28 January
Karl Strauss celebrates year 37 in style
Thirty-seven years ago, Karl Strauss Brewing didn’t follow the craft beer scene; it started the craft beer revolution in San Diego. As the city’s first craft brewery, Karl Strauss helped ignite a movement built…
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28 January
Beer Briefs: Open & Shut
Nothing’s been dry where San Diego’s beer scene is concerned this January. Despite it being the least busy time for imbibers, much is happening with local ale-and-lager producers, as evidenced by our…
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27 January
GABF relocates and heads outdoors
The Great American Beer Festival (GABF) is stepping outside! In a historic first, the nation’s favorite craft beer celebration will move outdoors on Saturday, October 10 and Sunday, October 11, relocating from the…
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27 January
Poway’s lone brewery to close
When Jim Crute opened Lightning Brewery in an industrial-zoned business suite in Poway, it was the inland North County municipality’s lone beermaking facility. That was 2006. Fast-forward two decades and nothing has…
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