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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Oct- 2021 -29 October
FOX 5: Frightfully Delicious Beers
In honor of Halloween, FOX 5 San Diego anchor Raoul Martinez busts out his Dracula voice before busting into a quartet of beers from San Diego County breweries featuring built-in, candy-like flavors.…
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29 October
Beer of the Week: Dragon Fruit IPA
From the Beer Writer: If you’re looking for an education on pitaya—AKA, “dragon fruit”—you can hit up a farmers’ market or tap the shoulder of the produce manager at your local grocery…
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26 October
Paso Robles & Atascadero, California Brewery Guide
As the saying goes, it takes a lot of great beer to make great wine. A Mecca for oenophiles—particularly fans of Rhône varietals—the Central Coast community of Paso Robles boasts more than…
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25 October
Portrait of a Brewer: Cody Gagnon, WestBrew
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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22 October
NBC 7: San Diego Beer News
As part of its Hispanic Heritage Month coverage, NBC 7 spotlights the story of Brandon Hernández, a Rancho Bernardo resident with lupus whose immunocompromised state forced him to shelter at home for…
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22 October
Beer of the Week: Reina del Oeste
From the Beer Writer: Last year, South Bay and the San Diego beer scene as a whole received something it had woefully been missing, a Latina-operated brewery. That operation, Mujeres Brew House,…
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18 October
Portrait of a Brewer: Shawn Mcilhenney, Mcilhenney 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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15 October
Beer of the Week: Dark Seas
From the Beer Writer: Picture it…North Park, 2010 or 2011. A mid-thirties beer writer walks into a restaurant sporting an extensive beer menu and sees a locally produced imperial stout he really…
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14 October
San Diego On Tap: Burgeon Beer Co.
The latest of Ranch & Coast Magazine‘s series of videos spotlighting members of San Diego’s remarkable craft-brewing community finds host Brandon Hernández in Carlsbad at Burgeon Beer Co. Few local breweries have…
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11 October
Portrait of a Brewer: Kyle Harrop, Horus Aged Ales
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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