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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May- 2021 -14 May
Beer of the Week: India Pale Whale
From the Beer Writer: “Big C” hops served as the foundation for West Coast IPAs, growing that niche all-American take on a tame English ale archetype into the most popular beer style…
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7 May
Beer of the Week: Shades of Daylight
From the Beer Writer: There are few business-to-business collaborations that seem as fitting in San Diego as a sunglass company and brewery confabulation. Vista’s Helia Brewing recently teamed with RAEN Optics in…
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4 May
FOX 5: New Local Brewery Venues
The FOX 5 San Diego Morning News‘ latest San Diego Beer News segment provides details on four recently opened breweries and tasting rooms from Pure Project Brewing, One Season Brewing, Harland Brewing,…
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3 May
Sweet Homebrew San Diego!
As part of our San Diego Homebrew Summer program, a dozen local breweries have agreed to bring county homebrewers’ recipes to life by brewing them at their facilities and releasing them to…
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Apr- 2021 -30 April
Beer of the Week: Barrel-aged Baba Yaga
From the Beer Writer: From the Beer Writer: What’s in a name? If you’re a brewery in a county awash in suds sporting over 150 operating brewhouses and even more brewery-owned public…
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9 April
Beer of the Week: Milk Truck
From the Beer Writer: Vanilla is well known for the way it so exquisitely amplifies baked goods and other confectionery treats. Its cohesiveness with sugar is such that many people aren’t aware…
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8 April
San Diego Homebrew Summer
Before there was an envied, world-class craft-brewing industry in San Diego, there were passionate homebrewers. Disappointed they couldn’t find beers they could only read about or taste overseas, they endeavored to brew…
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7 April
FOX 5: Brewery Spots Near Petco Park
As baseball season kicks off and the San Diego Padres embark on their quest for a World Series crown, San Diego Beer News Executive Editor Brandon Hernández takes to the airwaves care…
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2 April
Beer of the Week: Hop ‘Em Sock ‘Em
From the Beer Writer: I came into hoppy beers in an age where double IPAs seemed a tad unnecessary. At the time, most standard-strength West Coast IPAs had so much kettle-hop bitterness…
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Mar- 2021 -26 March
Beer of the Week: Saturhaze IPA
From the Beer Writer: Not all New England-style IPAs are the same. The degree of haziness brewers instill in their NEIPAs ranges from something so thick and boggy they make the glasses…
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