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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Sep- 2021 -1 September
The Finest’s finest
San Diego’s standout craft-beer industry is regularly traced back to the county’s incredible homebewing culture. Many of the region’s professional brewers cut their teeth on a recreational level, cooking up beers in…
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Aug- 2021 -31 August
Reno, Nevada Brewery Guide
Reno’s frontier-like quaintness softens the glitzy glare of its casinos, allowing them to be part of the fabric of the community without taking over. It’s a far cry from Las Vegas’ colossal…
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30 August
Recipe: Polaris IPA
As part of our San Diego Homebrew Summer program, San Diego Beer News has published homebrew-scaled recipes for beers professionally produced by craft breweries throughout the county. Today, we’re closing out an…
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29 August
San Diego On Tap: Mcilhenney Brewing
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 the East County town of Alpine, going one-on-two with…
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28 August
Release: Darkness Imprisoning Me
As part of our San Diego Homebrew Summer program, a dozen local breweries are producing recipes from local homebrewers at their breweries during the sunny season. The next to debut will be…
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27 August
Beer of the Week: Ukulele Quartet
From the Beer Writer: While brewers obviously love beer, spoiler alert, most enjoy drinking all sorts of alcoholic beverages and regularly dabble in the spirit world. After-work cocktails have led to a…
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23 August
Recipe: Santa’s Little Helper
As part of our San Diego Homebrew Summer program, every Monday from June through August, San Diego Beer News has published homebrew-scaled recipes for beers professionally produced by craft breweries throughout the…
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23 August
Beer of the Week: Stoner Moment
From the Beer Writer: The botanical connections between hops and pot are well documented in earth-science texts and pint after pint of the dank West Coast IPAs our region is known for,…
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20 August
Beer of the Week: Vienna Lager
From the Beer Writer: Some beer styles are so easy on the palate, that their compositions are taken for granted. Such is the case with Vienna lagers, malt-driven creations that are intended…
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16 August
Recipes: AleSmith IPA & Awkward Morning
As part of our San Diego Homebrew Summer program, every Monday between now and the end of August, San Diego Beer News will publish homebrew-scaled recipes for beers professionally produced by craft…
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