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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Aug- 2025 -9 August
91X Beer for Breakfast: Summer Beers
With summer in full swing, it seemed the perfect time for each member of the BFB crew to share some about some of their favorite locally produced sunny-season beers. Not surprisingly, Brewmaster Paul…
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8 August
Beer of the Week: Magnetic Ribbon – Final Cut Edition
At the height of Modern Times’ popularity – and even as the once mega-popular brand deteriorated into financial ruin – one thing was certain…the company maintained one of the finest barrel-aging programs…
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8 August
Homebrew Summer: SwellFire
The mission of our annual Homebrew Summer program is to bring professional brewers and homebrewers together. Typically, this involves one or maybe a handful of amateurs brewing in a commercial brewery, but…
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7 August
What’s Tapping (8/7)
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 August
FOX 5 Morning News: Small Brewery Roundup
San Diego is a hotbed for craft brewing. We all know the big-name businesses like AleSmith, Ballast Point and Stone Brewing, but one of the coolest things about the local beer scene…
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4 August
Homebrew Summer: What’s Cooler Than Being Cool? Ice Cold!
Aptly, no local brewing institution has been more involved in our five-years-strong Homebrew Summer program than Home Brew Mart (HBM). Not only has veteran shop-keep Derek Lauridsen transcribed each and every one…
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3 August
I Like Beer the Podcast: The Roadies Brewing
It’s hard to believe, but it’s already been a year since The Roadies Brewing opened up in North County. In this episode, the ILB crew ventures to their stage-equipped, musical-instrument-riddled Vista tasting…
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2 August
Homebrew Summer: I’m Not Bitter, You’re Bitter
When sharing the list of San Diego breweries participating in this year’s Homebrew Summer program, Fall Brewing wasn’t on it. But when we heard about their pro-am collaboration with local amateur Jeff…
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2 August
91X Beer for Breakfast: Smoking Cannon Brewery
Afew months back, Ramona’s lone craft-beer operation, Smoking Cannon Brewery, was purchased by a married couple with roots in the community extending to its live-music scene. That’s perfect since the original owners were also…
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1 August
Beer of the Week: Acid Drops
The world of hops used to be so simple: a finite assortment of varietals available as pellets or, come harvest time, in whole-cone form. Oh, how times have changed…and for the better.…
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