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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Aug- 2025 -28 August
Homebrew Summer: The Kölsch
They say lightning never strikes the same place twice, but this is the second year that Lightning Brewery owner and Brewmaster Jim Crute (pictured above, at left) has taken local homebrewers under…
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27 August
FOX 5 Morning News: Kearny Mesa Breweries
Centrally located with plenty of industrially zoned properties, Kearny Mesa is a well-suited community for craft-beer businesses. But believe it or not, it wasn’t until 2012 that it got its first brewery.…
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25 August
Portrait of a Brewer: Kelsey McNair, North Park Beer Co.
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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24 August
I Like Beer the Podcast: Holy Macro!
After six years of podcasting, the team returns to its roots. From the backyard Pub Shed, they reminisce about macro beers of yesteryear and sample craft clones of the American light lager…
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23 August
91X Beer for Breakfast: Asylum Brewing
The next time you catch a show at North Park live-music venue, The Observatory, you’ll be able to pregame with beer in a sanatorium setting. That most unique of opportunities comes direct from the North…
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22 August
Beer of the Week: Beat LA
Let’s begin by addressing the blue, white and scarcely red elephant in the room. The Dodgers heartily trounced our Padres last weekend. Thankfully, the Friars had spent the week prior building up…
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21 August
What’s Tapping (8/21)
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 August
Homebrew Summer: Chata F*** Up
No local business has brought more amateur brewers and civilians’ beery dreams to life over the past decade than Citizen Brewers. A Grantville hideaway that works with clients to brew up and…
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20 August
San Luis Obispo, California Brewery Guide
Charming in its small-town appeal, the Central Coast city of San Luis Obispo is an accommodating community where even first-time visitors feel like locals. Bolstered by history, a thriving arts scene and…
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19 August
Homebrew Summer: Rowley’s Last Rye’d
There are some constants in life. Death will come for all of us. So, too, will the IRS. And when our Homebrew Summer program puts out its annual call for beer recipes,…
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