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 -29 November
91X Beer for Breakfast: Burning Beard Brewing
There’s never a bad time to visit El Cajon’s lone craft-beer producer, Burning Beard Brewing. They’ve been putting out high-quality lagers, IPAs, Belgian and English-style beers for nearly a decade, not to…
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28 November
Beer of the Week: Shasta
Having worked for breweries, I’ve been privy to conversations wherein brewers talk about recipe-formulation for new beers. As one would expect, they do so with great purpose. Everybody wants to make the…
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27 November
What’s Tapping (11/27/25)
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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24 November
Praising the Bar: Sunny Grove Brewing
It takes a lot for a small brewery tucked away in the eastern expanses of the county to be voted Best New Brewery at the San Diego Beer News Awards, but that’s…
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23 November
I Like Beer the Podcast: Hall of Fame Collaboration
The Jeffs thought they were just stopping by for Taco Tuesday, but they walked straight into a “Hall of Fame day” at Vista’s Weir Beer Co. Turns out, the head brewers from…
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22 November
91X Beer for Breakfast: Booze Brothers Brewing
For the past dozen years, Booze Brothers Brewing has been bringing fab beers and fraternal love to fun-loving North County denizens. Today and tomorrow, they will be shifting that into overdrive during…
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21 November
Beer of the Week: Pineberry
Have you ever read one my beer descriptions, thought the beer sounded amazing, then purchased said beer and marveled at how much it…didn’t taste anything like what I’d described? It happens. I’d…
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20 November
What’s Tapping (11/20/25)
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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17 November
Praising the Bar: Booze Brothers Brewing
The fraternal founders of Booze Brothers Brewing have built a successful business by bringing on employees who have gone on to become part of their extended family. It’s been a key to…
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16 November
I Like Beer the Podcast: Ramona Art & Wine Festival
When the Ramona Art and Wine Festival dropped “beer” from its name, hosts Jeff and Jeff took matters into their own hands, arriving with a cooler full of craft-beer on a mission…
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