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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May- 2024 -25 May
91X Beer for Breakfast: Craft Coast Beer & Tacos
It’s common place for local breweries to come on strong and make fast names for themselves in San Diego, but even so, the rapid success of North County’s four-year-old Craft Coast Beer…
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24 May
Beer of the Week: Crispy-Fu!
Coming up in the local beer scene, I attended festivals devoted to just about everything: ales of the hoppy, high-alcohol, sour, dark, barrel-aged and Belgian (yes, seriously!) varieties. Back then, I’d have…
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23 May
What’s Tapping (5/23)
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 May
Portrait of a Brewer: Teddy Gowan, Societe Brewing
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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19 May
I Like Beer the Podcast: North County Summer Beers
They’re baaaack! That’s right, the ILB crew is not only back home from a recent (and expansive) Texas excursion, but they’re bringing their focus back to sweet home San Diego, and specifically…
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18 May
FOX 5 News: The Lodge
Typically, our FOX 5 Morning News segments feature numerous local breweries. This time around, we single one out, but they bring enough beer and food for four businesses. That generous entity is…
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17 May
Beer of the Week: Tea Time
I attended Morse High School, where the student population was 60% Filipino, and my first real job after graduating was at a company where roughly 60% of its employees were Filipino. Over…
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16 May
What’s Tapping (5/16)
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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13 May
Portrait of a Brewer: Daren Rudy, Ataraxia Aleworks
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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12 May
I Like Beer the Podcast: London Pub Crawl
The Jeffs are preparing for their most epic beer run yet. That adventure will take place in the U.K., and to get ready they sat down with Thomas Vosper, the author of…
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