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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Sep- 2025 -13 September
91X Beer for Breakfast: Bay City Brewing
This week, Brewmaster Paul Segura checks in on the liquid handiwork of a past Karl Strauss colleague who has played a major role in shaping his current workplace, Bay City Brewing. Based in Point Loma…
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12 September
Beer of the Week: Double Fest
One of the best ways for breweries to engage craft-beer drinkers is by inviting them into their tasting rooms, where they can show off, not only their full assortment of beers, but…
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11 September
What’s Tapping (9/11)
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 September
Homebrew Summer: Gavroche
Homebrewing is more than a pastime. In some cases, it’s a necessity. Before the modern craft-beer movement, many styles of beer were largely unavailable in the U.S., requiring stateside amateurs to brew…
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7 September
I Like Beer the Podcast: Oktoberfest Insider
Join the Jeffs and Tom at Burgeon Beer Co. to hear all about upcoming Oktoberfest festivities that will take place in San Diego. Those lederhosen- and dirndl-clad events include Burgeon’s O-fest, along…
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6 September
91X Beer for Breakfast: Kairoa Brewing
Abrewpub founded by New Zealand sheep farmers with a Maori name translating to “Long Cloud”. Believe it or not, that’s not where Kairoa Brewing‘s exoticness ends. This six-year-old University Heights business also employs…
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5 September
Beer of the Week: Cloud Pleaser
As a small business owner and head of a media outlet, I rely on a variety of specialty softwares to handle everything from publishing, delivery and surveys to basic business functions such…
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4 September
What’s Tapping (9/4)
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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1 September
Homebrew Summer: Rye Tai
While many of the pro-am pairings from our five-years strong Homebrew Summer program match brewers who have never met one another, there are plenty of cases where longtime friends come together to…
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Aug- 2025 -31 August
I Like Beer the Podcast: Drive-by Fruiting
An already top-notch episode is made even more special thanks to a porch beer-drop from Listener Rod, delivered all the way from Fresno. As a result, the ILB crew enjoys Tioga Sequoia…
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