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- 2026 -13 May
QUAFF dominates local homebrewing contest
Held on an annual basis since 1994, the America’s Finest City Homebrew Competition (AFC) is coordinated thanks to effort and elbow grease from the members of local homebrewing club QUAFF. Not surprisingly,…
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11 May
Rear View Beer: Cerveceria la Cruda
San Diego’s brewing industry and overall beer scene didn’t spontaneously occur. It was forged over decades by thousands of entrepreneurs, craftspeople, employees and fans. And key to it all have been the…
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10 May
CBS 8 Brewing Local: Hopnonymous Brewing
This week, News 8 anchor Neda Iranpour chats with Hopnonymous Brewing owner Rémy Zurita and Head Brewer Hunter Mannix. Tune in to hear how the six-year-old company built a legion of regulars…
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9 May
91X Beer for Breakfast: The Lost Abbey Brewing
Twenty years in the craft-beer industry is nothing to sneeze at, but it’s definitely something to raise a glass to! So, the BFB crew does just that, not once but twice, in honor…
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8 May
Beer of the Week: Duck Duck Kriek
It seems like only yesterday I was introduced to The Lost Abbey. My first encounter didn’t come via a tap list or one of the company’s continental-style corked-and-caged bottles featuring Catholicism-steeped paintings…
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7 May
What’s Tapping (5/7/26)
Welcome to San Diego Beer News‘ weekly list of beers tapping for the first time or returning to beer lists at breweries throughout San Diego County, including links where you can find…
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6 May
FOX 5 Morning News: Local Beer News
With so much going on in the local beer industry, FOX 5 invited San Diego Beer News founder Brandon Hernández to the news desk to share about the latest developments in the…
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3 May
Las Vegas Beer News (May 2026)
World Beer Cup Winners Mojave Brewing’s Andy Kohon (left) & John “Griff” Griffith The World Beer Cup (WBC), the world’s largest and most prestigious international brewing competition (often referred to as “The…
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2 May
91X Beer for Breakfast: All Things Agave
Few brewers have had the overwhelming impact on the local beer scene that Colby Chandler has. In addition to a quarter-century of production and recipe development for Ballast Point Brewing, which included co-creation of the…
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1 May
Beer of the Week: Can We Be Friends?
Last week, an IPA with a name referencing a ‘90s-era video game made for a particularly fun writing project for yours truly. I had a blast thinking back to some of the…
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