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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Mar- 2025 -21 March
Beer of the Week: Wired Fences
When a brewery brings on a new fermentationist to head its beermaking operations, it’s a big deal. And for the individual stepping aboard, it can often be difficult to toe the line…
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20 March
What’s Tapping (3/20)
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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17 March
Portrait of a Brewer: Doug Hasker, Puesto Cervecería
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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16 March
I Like Beer the Podcast: The Grove
It’s always a good day when the ILB team finds itself at one of Burgeon Beer Co.‘s branches. This week, they land at the company’s Vista satellite taproom, “The Grove”, for an…
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15 March
91X Beer for Breakfast: Seven Seas
An iconic San Diego landmark, SeaWorld has been a longtime supporter of showcaser of local beer. That includes their annual Seven Seas Food Festival, which not only offers eventgoers regionally-inspired dishes from…
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14 March
Beer of the Week: Beoir Dearg
The founder of North Park’s Barley & Sword Brewing really sticks to his guns. Not only is his beer board stocked exclusively with Old World styles which are (sadly) less popular than…
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13 March
What’s Tapping (3/13)
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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9 March
I Like Beer the Podcast: Bars & ShamROCK
The Jeffs’ first episode of March features two guests. Click play to hear he co-owner of Boozy Scoot Scoot share about his journey and artisan mobile bar business. That innovator is followed by…
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8 March
91X Beer for Breakfast: White Labs
It’s a common query: Why is San Diego such a hotbed for craft beer? There are numerous answers, but one of the biggest reasons is the mid-’90s establishment of yeast-production business, White…
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7 March
Beer of the Week: More Fun Blonde
When locals with a penchant for beer think of Escondido, it’s most likely the castle-like estate that is Stone Brewing comes to mind. Let me be clear – there is nothing wrong…
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