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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Jun- 2026 -30 June
FOX 5 Morning News: Brew Your Own Beer
Whether you’re an nth-level homebrewer or someone who just really loves to drink beer and has always wanted to design their very own ale or lager, there’s a San Diego business where…
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29 June
Portrait of a Brewer: Peter Howson, Deft 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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28 June
CBS 8 Brewing Local: Fall Brewing
In this episode, CBS 8‘s Neda Iranpour sits down with Robert Tardio and Angus MacGyver from Fall Brewing after paying their brew crew a visit at the company’s Miramar production headquarters. What…
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27 June
91X Beer for Breakfast: Belching Beaver Brewery
It’s hard to believe, but North County-based Belching Beaver Brewery has been pumping out quality beers for 14 years! That’s a long span and plenty of time to forge some great traditions. One of…
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26 June
Beer of the Week: Funner
As Southern California’s only craft-beer concern that is owned and operated by a Native American tribe, Rincon Reservation Road Brewery’s ales and lagers are about more than refreshment. The business’ offerings also…
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25 June
What’s Tapping (6/25/26)
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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24 June
Announcing this year’s Homebrew Summer brewers
Over the past five years, local breweries have generously participated in San Diego Beer News’ Homebrew Summer program. They’ve done so by allowing our outlet to publish homebrew-scaled recipes for some of…
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23 June
San Diegan named Homebrewer of the Year
On Saturday, the American Homebrewers Association announced winners from the 48th edition of the largest and most prestigious amateur brewing competition in the world. Held in Asheville, North Carolina, the National Homebrew…
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21 June
I Like Beer the Podcast: InZane Brewing
This week, the Jeffs return to familiar territory, namely InZane Brewing in downtown Vista. There, they discuss nearly seven years’ worth of podcast fun, as well as the stories, breweries and friendships…
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20 June
91X Beer for Breakfast: Koakai Brewing
This week, the BFB crew samples suds from San Diego County’s newest beer operation, Koakai Brewing. Founded by a married couple who cut their teeth at Pizza Port‘s Carlsbad Village brewpub before moving on…
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