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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Mar- 2024 -14 March
What’s Tapping (3/14)
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 March
Capital of Craft the Podcast: Brandon Hernández
In addition to having covered the craft-beer industry as a journalist for the past 17 years, San Diego Beer News founder Brandon Hernández also spent nearly a decade working for local craft…
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11 March
Portrait of a Brewer: Jeff Lozano, Ballast Point 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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10 March
I Like Beer the Podcast: Central Coast Field Trip
Once again, Jeff and Jeff hook up their travel trailers ad head north for their annual Central Coast pilgrimage. Even rain couldn’t deter them from finding cool new breweries and returning to…
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9 March
91X Beer for Breakfast: Rouleur Brewing
The Beer for Breakfast crew never needs an excuse to talk about a cool local brewery, but this week they have a particularly delicious excuse: the addition of an on-site deli. Carlsbad’s…
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8 March
Beer of the Week: Blue Line
When it comes to NFL, NBA and Major League Baseball, fumbles, airballs and whiffs best sum up the performance of San Diego’s franchises. The lack of a local championship in any of…
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7 March
What’s Tapping (3/7)
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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4 March
Portrait of a Brewer: Chris Hotz, 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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3 March
I Like Beer the Podcast: ShamROCK 2024
In this episode, the Jeffs gather info on the 28-year history of the Gaslamp Quarter’s annual St. Patrick’s Day festival, ShamROCK. Those golden nuggets come straight from event founder Laurel McFarlane. In…
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2 March
91X Beer for Breakfast: Green Cheek Beer Co.
Typically, when a beer business goes out of business, it’s a very sad thing, and certainly there are many in the craft community lamenting the recent closure of Bagby Beer Co. after…
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