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- 2025 -25 October
91X Beer for Breakfast: Capital of Craft – Part 1
San Diego Beer Week will take place from November 7 to 16, but its official kickoff event, the Capital of Craft Beer Festival, will take place on Saturday, November 8. Now in its second year, the…
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24 October
Beer of the Week: Are You Afraid of the Dark?
Picture it – a hot summer day on the open-air patio of Weir Beer Co. in the North County inland community of Vista. There I am, my forehead coated in a film…
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23 October
What’s Tapping (10/23)
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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20 October
Praising the Bar: Mcilhenney Brewing
Since opening as the second coming of San Diego’s first family of hop innovation in 2021, Mcilhenney Brewing has recemented itself as an East County gem worth charting a course for. Its…
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19 October
I Like Beer the Podcast: Hunters for Beer
The ILB team makes their long-awaited return to the studio to meet up with producers Joe and Mateo over Oktoberfest beer selections hailing from San Diego (AleSmith Brewing, Karl Strauss Brewing) and…
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18 October
91X Beer for Breakfast: Lightning Brewery
It’s one of the county’s smallest beer-making operations, Poway’s lone brewing concern, and it’s been going strong for nearly 20 years. An institution that was all about German lagers before they became…
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17 October
Beer of the Week: 9th Anniversary IPA
Palates are like personalities – everybody’s is unique. Our taste buds react differently to individual stimuli. Some flavors come across as more intense while others may not register at all. In the…
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16 October
What’s Tapping (10/16)
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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15 October
FOX 5 Morning News: Local GABF Winners
As readers of San Diego Beer News are well aware, there are plenty of brewing competitions out there, but the most prestigious in the country is the Great American Beer Festival. Winners…
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13 October
Homebrew Summer: Violet
Each year, me and my friend and fellow Leo, Tom Nickel (pictured above, at right), use the fact our birthdays fall on consecutive days in August as an excuse to convene at…
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