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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May- 2024 -10 May
Beer of the Week: Higher Learning
Few businesses go all out for an anniversary celebration the way those in the craft-brewing industry do. Some of the best events I’ve ever attended have been brewery birthday parties. From outlandish…
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9 May
Karl Strauss signs Bay City Brewing
Karl Strauss Brewing, San Diego’s longest continuously operating post-Prohibition brewing company, has entered into a distribution agreement with Point Loma-based Bay City Brewing. The company’s distribution arm, Karl Strauss Distributing (KSD), is now…
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9 May
What’s Tapping (5/9)
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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8 May
A second chance for Second Chance Beer Co.
During his more than a decade-and-a-half at the helm of Rock Bottom’s La Jolla brewpub, Marty Mendiola oversaw beer-making operations for the chain’s Western U.S. locations, racked up scads of medals at…
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7 May
All-grain ain’t the only way
I recently did a segment for the FOX 5 Morning News featuring homebrew-supply outlets run by local brewing companies. One of them was the spot where many of San Diego’s amateur and…
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6 May
Portrait of a Brewer: Jeff Bagby, Green Cheek Beer Co.
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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5 May
I Like Beer the Podcast: Texas Grand Finale
All good things must come to an end…even an epic trip to Austin, Texas that yielded a bevy of ILB beer content, the last of which awaits you here. Listen in as…
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4 May
91X Beer for Breakfast: Latchkey Brewing
Don’t call it a comeback. Even though Latchkey Brewing has been without its own production facility for more than two years, it’s beer has been trickling through the county thanks to contract-brewing…
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3 May
Beer of the Week: Eye on the Ball
So you say you’ve brewed a beer especially for baseball season; something to drink multiple pints of while watching our hometown Padres do their best to erase all memories of last season.…
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2 May
What’s Tapping (5/2)
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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