FEATURES
In addition to news reporting, San Diego Beer News is well known for its weekly, annual and otherwise regular features, programs and initiatives spotlighting San Diego County’s beers, brewers and brewing companies. Popular features include our Beer of the Week, weekly What’s Tapping updates chronicling new beers debuting at local breweries, beer-centric travel pieces, Portrait of a Brewer and Praising the Bar Q&A pieces, plus our multi-faceted Homebrew Sumer pro-am program and the extremely popular San Diego Beer News Awards. The following is a chronological listing of all of our feature content to-date.
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Apr- 2025 -12 April
91X Beer for Breakfast: Pure Project Brewing
This week’s adult-beverage breakfast sesh focuses on a local brewing company that releases beers nearly as often as we run this segment. That prolific Vista-based operation is Pure Project Brewing, a nine-year-old…
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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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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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Mar- 2025 -31 March
Portrait of a Brewer: Tyson Dennis, North Park 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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30 March
I Like Beer the Podcast: PCH Sports Bar
This week, the Jeffs found themselves in search of famed triple IPA, Pliny the Younger. They found it at PCH Sports Bar in Oceanside, where owner Amy O’Donnell has a great lineup…
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