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- 2022 -29 June
Recipe: First Mate
As part of our second-annual Homebrew Summer program, various San Diego County breweries have teamed with amateur brewers to produce their homespun recipes on their commercial systems, then tap the resultant beers…
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27 June
Locals bring home NHC hardware
Over the weekend, winning homebrews, amateur brewers and homebrew clubs were announced from the National Homebrew Competition. Held as part of the American Homebrewers Association’s annual event, Homebrew Con, this is the…
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27 June
Recipe: Danky Lil’ Thang
As part of our second-annual Homebrew Summer program, various San Diego County breweries have teamed with amateur brewers to produce their homespun recipes on their commercial systems, then tap the resultant beers…
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24 June
Recipe: Big Danky Thang
As part of our second-annual Homebrew Summer program, various San Diego County breweries have teamed with amateur brewers to produce their homespun recipes on their commercial systems, then tap the resultant beers…
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24 June
Beer of the Week: Fist Full of Fives
From the Beer Writer: Anniversaries come and anniversaries go, but we’re usually left with some great, lasting memories. In the case of Escondido’s Jacked Up Brewery, they ended up with a much…
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21 June
Recipe: Juice Press
As part of our second-annual Homebrew Summer program, various San Diego County breweries will be sharing recipes for some of their most popular beers, which have been scaled-down for amateur brewers to…
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20 June
Homebrew Summer is back
Last year, San Diego Beer News (SDBN) rolled out its inaugural Homebrew Summer, a program designed to connect local homebrewers with professional beermakers throughout the county. Over the sunny season, a dozen…
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17 June
Beer of the Week: Tenth Ann’y
From the Beer Writer: Once rare, triple IPAs have become surprisingly common…yet a good one can still be rather hard to find. Thanks to peoples’ pining for Pliny the Younger, that style-progenitor’s…
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16 June
FOX 5: Local Nanobreweries
Most local breweries produce beer in 10-, 20- or 30-barrel batches. And if you’re one of the big boys, single batches can be hundreds of barrels in size. But then there are…
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13 June
Portrait of a Brewer: Cecil Menasco, Stone Brewing
There are hundreds of hard-working brewing professionals giving their all to help maintain the storied reputation San Diego’s brewing scene has earned over the past several decades. Some have risen to great…
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