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- 2024 -17 October
What’s Tapping (10/17)
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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14 October
Praising the Bar: Burgeon Beer Co.
In the last eight years, Burgeon Beer Co. has gone from a small business sprouting out of the Carlsbad soil into a fan-favorite beer-making operation with a far-reaching root system stretching to…
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13 October
91X Beer for Breakfast: Burgeon & BEERnardo
The San Diego beer community is full of good people doing good things. This week, the ILB team sits down with Laura Mello, the founder of the Rancho BEERNardo beer festival, and…
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12 October
91X Beer for Breakfast: Julian Beer Co.
This week’s edition of Beer for Breakfast is all about wet-hop beers, ales and lagers made with fresh, whole-cone hops during the harvest season. Those “wet hops” are incorporated into the brewing…
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11 October
QUAFF named Homebrew Club of the Year
Yesterday marked the start of the three-day free-for-all that is the Great American Beer Festival. Held annually at Denver’s Colorado Convention Center, it draws droves of ale-and-lager fans looking to down as…
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11 October
Beer of the Week: FrankenStout
Over the past three decades, certain locally produced ales and lagers have claimed vaunted spots in the San Diego beer pantheon. They go by singular, popular names – Swami’s, Sculpin, Speedway (and…
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10 October
What’s Tapping (10/10)
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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7 October
Homebrew Summer: Skyline
When Aaron Justus and Brandon Green traded in high-level brewing positions at Ballast Point Brewing to build their own little piece of craft-beer heaven in the East Village, they did so, in…
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6 October
91X Beer for Breakfast: SoCal Brewing Supply
This episode finds Talent in his element, sitting down with Travis Johnson, the owner of SoCal Brewing Supply. That’s right, the top-notch Vista retail outlet that’s the banner sponsor of San Diego…
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5 October
91X Beer for Breakfast: Night Parade Brewing
If you’re looking for a little taste of Cajun culture, you don’t have to hop a flight to New Orleans (not that that’s a bad thing). All locals need to do is…
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