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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Jan- 2021 -29 January
Beer of the Week: Ohms
From the Beer Writer: Having enough of a fan base to have your own branded consumable has to be right up there with making the cover of Rolling Stone or being nominated…
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25 January
NEWS 8: San Diego Beer News Awards
With the first-annual San Diego Beer News Awards in full swing, SDBN founder and Executive Editor Brandon Hernández catches up with News 8‘s Neda Iranpour to discuss how San Diegans can get…
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22 January
Beer of the Week: Can’t Resist the Oats
From the Beer Writer: Hazy IPAs can be a hill for fans of classic West Coast IPAs to get over. Lump on the increased alcohol and added sweetness of a triple New…
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15 January
Beer of the Week: Speedway Stout with Espresso & Madagascar Vanilla
From the Beer Writer: San Diego beers don’t get much more iconic than Speedway Stout. Brewed by Miramar’s AleSmith Brewing, first at its tiny Cabot Drive brewery (which is now home to…
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8 January
Beer of the Week: In Praise of Bacchus
From the Beer Writer: Sometimes, when a brewer describes the painstaking lengths they’ve gone to in order to brew a beer, it can raise expectations to the point where, even if it’s…
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4 January
Nominate your favorite beers and breweries
Today marks the start of the nomination period for the San Diego Beer News Awards, a first-of-its-kind all-San-Diego competition drawing on opinions from beer fans and brewery personnel to recognize standout beers,…
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Dec- 2020 -31 December
Beer of the Week: La Flama Blanca
From the Beer Writer: As evidenced right on this website when San Diego Beer News staffers shared the beers they plan on drinking on New Year’s Eve, the last night of the…
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30 December
FOX 5: Local Beers for New Year’s Eve
With two days left in 2020, San Diego Beer News founder and Executive Editor Brandon Hernández chatted with FOX 5 San Diego Morning News anchor Kristina Audencial about a quartet of beers…
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28 December
The San Diego Beer News Awards
Brewing competitions like the world-famous Great American Beer Festival (GABF) and locally significant San Diego International Beer Competition recognize excellence in craftsmanship while providing excitement and entertainment for brewers and beer fans…
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24 December
Beer of the Week: Ol’ Nessie
From the Beer Writer: When winter rolls around, even in seemingly never-sub-sixty San Diego, many beer drinkers take the opportunity to switch up their imbibing habits, taking a break from crisp, golden-hued…
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