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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Apr- 2026 -30 April
What’s Tapping (4/30/26)
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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29 April
Join in the fun of Homebrew Summer 2026
In 2021, San Diego Beer News teamed with local breweries and homebrewers to launch a one-of-a-kind program developed to keep the ties between the county’s pro and recreational brewing communities strong. Over…
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26 April
CBS 8 Brewing Local: San Diego Beer News
News 8 anchor Neda Iranpour has been reporting on San Diego County breweries for well over a decade, but she’s far from done. This week she launched a new weekly streaming feature…
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25 April
91X Beer for Breakfast: Pure Project Brewing
Just when we though we knew all there was to know about 10-year-old Vista-based Pure Project Brewing, that innovative operation throws us not one, but two curveballs. The first is the debut of a…
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24 April
Beer of the Week: Hopdouken
If you’re like me, you find yourself humming random tracks from Super Mario Bros. in the shower or recalling the noises that sounded out when it was time for Dirk the Daring…
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23 April
What’s Tapping (4/23/26)
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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21 April
A local homebrew event like no other
Over the past decade-and-a-half, I have homebrewed solo and with friends, and had the privilege of collaborating on beers brewed for charity (and fun) with career fermentationists. As a journalist, I’ve covered…
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20 April
Portrait of a Brewer: Josh Stratton, Ketch Brewing
There are hundreds of talented brewing professionals giving their all to help maintain the San Diego beer industry’s storied reputation. While these industrious practitioners share numerous similarities, each is their own unique…
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19 April
ALT 94.9 FM: Coronado Brewing
This week, Jeremy Pritchard from ALT 94.9 FM reconnects with Brendan Kragel from Coronado Brewing Company (CBC). The impetus? Why, a new beer, of course. But not just any new beer. Jeremy…
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18 April
91X Beer for Breakfast: Hop Habit Brewery
You know someone loves brewing when they do it at an award-garnering level for more than a decade but that’s still not enough. Enter Thomas Peters, a fermentationist occupying one of the top…
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