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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Nov- 2025 -1 November
91X Beer for Breakfast: Capital of Craft – Part 2
It may be Halloween, but Marty and Brandon have their sights set a week in the future when San Diego Beer Week will be in full swing and they’ll be joining in that 10-day…
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Oct- 2025 -31 October
Beer of the Week: Bailey’s Ghost
Our Beer of the Week features always run on Fridays, so it’s only once every seven years (OK, yes, because of leap years, it’s actually every six, and maybe even five years,…
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30 October
What’s Tapping (10/30/25)
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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27 October
Praising the Bar: Black Plague Brewing
When planning our annual spotlight series for front-of-house all-stars at local breweries, we were excited to include staffers from Black Plague Brewing. It takes a lot to lighten up venues with pitch-black…
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26 October
I Like Beer the Podcast: Moto Sonora Brewing
This week the Jeffs meet up with Jeremy DeConcini, the co-owner of Moto Sonora Brewing. That Arizona operation’s origin story is a heck of a tale, which includes a journey through South…
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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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