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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Feb- 2026 -12 February
What’s Tapping (2/12/26)
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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9 February
Rear View Beer: Benchmark Brewing
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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8 February
I Like Beer the Podcast: The Curtain Has Been Lifted
For 335 episodes, you’ve heard the voices of the ILB crew. Now, for the first time in history, you can see the “charisma overload” for yourself as they make their video debut…
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7 February
91X Beer for Breakfast: Blind Lady Ale House
It seems like only yesterday that Blind Lady Ale House opened its doors in Normal Heights, but that reliably outstanding bar and nanobrewery just celebrated 17 years of pints, pies and all-around awesomeness. In…
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6 February
Beer of the Week: La Chona
In illustrating their passion for live music, the family behind The Roadies Brewing could have slapped some concert posters on the walls of their tasting room and called it a day. Instead,…
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5 February
What’s Tapping (2/5/26)
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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1 February
Las Vegas Beer News (February 2026)
By Bob Barnes, Las Vegas Correspondent Modest Brewing now open with a 100% local beer list The Las Vegas Arts District has another new brewery. After years of planning, the dreams of…
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Jan- 2026 -31 January
91X Beer for Breakfast: Hopnonymous Brewing
In 2019, Hopnonymous Brewing arrived in Kearny Mesa as a complete unknown. More than six years later, it’s one of the biggest cult-favorite beer operations in suds-drenched San Diego, thanks in large part to…
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30 January
Beer of the Week: Rye’d the Wave
With three locations in the South Bay alone, plus three more venues (two of which are large bar-and-restaurant spaces in Mission Valley and San Antonio, Texas), Novo Brazil Brewing is a sizable…
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29 January
What’s Tapping (1/29/26)
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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