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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Mar- 2021 -19 March
Beer of the Week: DoubleDeft Secret
From the Beer Writer: Hops are glorious, drinkable beers divine, but malty beers fueled to high-alcohol glory care of energetic yeast strains with character are things of beauty, too. Unfortunately, they are…
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12 March
Beer of the Week: Blackberry Pie
From the Beer Writer: After a year spent in varying states of quarantine staving off a global pandemic, most people are looking for any excuse to celebrate something, to bring a glint…
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5 March
And the winners are…
Earlier this week, winners in the first annual San Diego Beer News Awards were announced. Fans nominated 386 beers produced by San Diego County breweries in 19 different style categories, setting up…
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5 March
Beers of the Week: Wee Gus & Big Gus
From the Beer Writer: Small, neighborhood breweries and brewpubs have a luxury that larger operations don’t in that it’s relatively easy to brew up beers on a small scale (because it’s the…
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3 March
San Diego Beer News Awards Virtual Awards Shows
The entire month of January, craft-beer fans and members of the brewing industry nominated their favorite beers and breweries for the first-ever San Diego Beer News Awards. Then, in February, we received…
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Feb- 2021 -26 February
Beer of the Week: Guava 250 kWh
From the Beer Writer: Much like an elaborate restaurant dish, a brewery’s beer recipes often get many tweaks along the way. Sometimes, there are enough adjustments that an entirely new beer is…
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19 February
Beer of the Week: Salute
From the Beer Writer: I’ve been drinking West Coast IPAs for 23 years. Like most people, I try to spend as little time as possible thinking about the passage of the years,…
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12 February
Beer of the Week: Træblod
From the Beer Writer: There’s no need to gild the lily when you have a sultry, delicious imperial stout that your brewing team enjoys making and your customers clamor for. But the…
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5 February
Beer of the Week: Colors
From the Beer Writer: So, what hops did you use in this beer? It seemed like I was asking an innocent enough question, but some things are sacred. The response I received…
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4 February
FOX 5: Local Beers for Super Bowl LV
He may be a fan of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, but he roots for San Diego craft brewers 24-7-365. On his latest monthly San Diego Beer News segment on the FOX 5…
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