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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Oct- 2020 -9 October
Beer of the Week: Salted Rim
From the Beer Writer: Sitting on the couch with my laptop open and a Zoom window up, interacting with brewers 15 miles away. Yep, it was your typical collaboration brew session…in the…
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2 October
Beer of the Week: Summer LemonHaze
From the Beer Writer: The appeal of the Northeast-style “hazy” IPA is a low to non-existent bitterness that allows drinkers to really smell and taste the aroma and flavor characteristics of the…
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Sep- 2020 -25 September
Beer of the Week: Grim Ripper
From the Beer Writer: Oceanside’s Black Plague Brewing has all the earmarks of a celeb-funded money-grab hustle of the side variety. A popular skateboarder equipped with sleek art and star power (ever…
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18 September
Beer of the Week: The Downside
From the Beer Writer: This is the perfect time of year for lovers of German lagers. Märzens and various fest biers—somewhat rare, one-time-a-year offerings in IPA-, pilsner- and Mexican lager-crazed San Diego…
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11 September
Beer of the Week: Today’s Forecast
From the Beer Writer: Most of the world hears the word “mosaic” and it conjures visions of artistic works created using multi-colored tiles. Beer fans feel sorry for those people, because when…
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8 September
FOX 5 San Diego Beer News Segment
FOX 5 Morning News‘ latest San Diego Beer News segment details ambitious, soon-to-debut Vista-based brewing company WestBrew as well as a recently opened Oceanside brewpub stocked with beer and authentic Mexican food,…
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4 September
Beer of the Week: The Original Brut Ale
From the Beer Writer: I’ve long referred to a certain brewery in San Marcos as a three-headed monster. That operation is the all-under-one-roof combo of The Lost Abbey, Port Brewing and The…
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Aug- 2020 -28 August
Beer of the Week: Shagtastic Voyage
From the Beer Writer: Barrel-aging can be a taxing process for a brewer. In addition to sourcing viable barrels, dosing, storage, blending and contending with scores of technical matters, there’s the attachment…
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21 August
Beer of the Week: PB & Haze
From the Beer Writer: Double IPAs and hazy IPAs tend to fall victim to the same shortcoming: undesirable sweetness. So, when coming across a double New England-style (i.e., hazy) India pale ale,…
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14 August
Beer of the Week: Browner Than Ivan
From the Beer Writer: The Great American Beer Festival (GABF) is the largest annual brewing competition in the world. It’s produced some great American memories for numerous San Diego brewers, including the…
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