CRAFT Q&A
Conveying brewing-industry news and developments through in-depth one-on-one interview sessions to provide facts and insights straight from the source.
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Apr- 2024 -23 April
Dishing on North Park Beer Co. Pizza Shop
When working to open North Park Beer Co. (NPBC) nearly a decade ago, Kelsey and Amanda McNair knew they wanted high-quality food to be prepared and available on-site, but as…
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15 April
Beer, booch and buds
Thoughtful collaboration is a core component of the craft-beer industry. Recently, a pair of longtime friends and beverage-industry contemporaries teamed together to produce corresponding creations crafted to communicate the quality…
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8 April
Gravity Heights reaching for new heights
After more than two years of construction and all the delays and challenges that come with it, restaurateur Arturo Kassel and his team are just over a week away from…
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Mar- 2024 -5 March
Getting back on board
Since co-founding San Diego’s first full-scale craft-beer business back in 1989, Chris Cramer has seen a great deal and learned a lot about the business of brewing and the state…
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Feb- 2024 -6 February
Green Cheek Beer’s co-founder on coming to San Diego
Over the past year, stories of local brewery closures have become far too common, almost routine. Which is what made the announcement of 10-year-old Oceanside brewpub Bagby Beer Co. going…
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Jan- 2024 -22 January
Jake Nunes shares presidential agenda
In the craft-beer industry, there are people who have been around the block and then there are individuals like Jake Nunes who have been orbiting it for years, picking up…
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9 January
A man of the people (at the bar)
For the past eight years, a tiny, tucked-away brewery has operated in the almost-literal shadows of large-scale neighbors, Ballast Point Brewing and Athletic Brewing, churning out small-batch creations in a…
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Nov- 2023 -28 November
Santa Fe Brewing and My Yard Live team up
It was the early nineties when a pair of West Coast transplants found each other, stunned and a little homesick, on the campus of Texas’ Southern Methodist University. While Bay…
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15 November
The Beer Queen signs off
It takes a lot to merit a nickname as regal as “The Beer Queen”, but a lot is just what Danielle Stuht has done for San Diego’s craft-brewing industry. During…
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Oct- 2023 -18 October
Remembering Matt Courtright
Like so many who, like me, were employed by Stone Brewing at the time, I’ll always remember August 24, 2013. That’s when members of Team Stone were wrested from a…
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