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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Dec- 2020 -18 December
Beer of the Week: This One Goes to Eleven
From the Beer Writer: I love Christmas, I love Christmas beers and I love collecting (OK, hoarding) things. So, I was thrilled in 2010, when Karl Strauss Brewing released Parrot in a…
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11 December
Beer of the Week: Night on Ghost Mountain
From the Beer Writer: “Night on Ghost Mountain” by Winslow Sawyer…it sounds like a novelist’s work of fiction. But the creator in this instance is the brewmaster from Miramar’s Pure Project Brewing.…
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4 December
Beer of the Week: Navidad
From the Beer Writer: Like so many, when I was in my mid-to-late twenties, many of my friendships were fueled and cemented by beer and the act of consuming it. To this…
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Nov- 2020 -27 November
Beer of the Week: Denim Tuxedo
From the Beer Writer: When it comes to consuming adult beverages, we all have to start somewhere. My first alcoholic beverage (if you can even call it that) was Bacardi 151 rum…
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20 November
Beer of the Week: Lupulin Lust
From the Beer Writer: Many are the beerophiles who believe that beer recipes exist in a vacuum, kept just as they were upon initial development. Furthermore, fans tend to view recipe tweaks…
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13 November
Beer of the Week: 4th Anniversary Double IPA
From the Beer Writer: Few San Diego breweries get as much attention or as many kudos for their clean, to-style lagers as Vista-based Eppig Brewing. Yet, while the bottom-fermented, Germanic offerings of…
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6 November
Beer of the Week: Rare Form
From the Beer Writer: Though San Diego beer has been an institution for over a quarter century, back in 2012, only about a half-dozen breweries qualified as “coastal” and even fewer had…
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Oct- 2020 -30 October
Beer of the Week: Pit BOS
From the Beer Writer: They say you can’t argue with results, and that could be the mantra for this week’s featured beer, Pit BOS from Five Suits Brewing in Vista. Back when…
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23 October
Beer of the Week: All In
From the Beer Writer: Packed with residual sugars and fortified with all manner of adjuncts plucked from the confectioner’s pantry, pastry stouts are billed as (and designed to be) “dessert in a…
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16 October
Beer of the Week: Executive Pour
From the Beer Writer: Being summoned by the big cheese at one’s place of employment can really wreck a work day for even the cleanest-nosed subordinate. Palms sweat, the heart races, the…
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