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- 2025 -23 February
I Like Beer the Podcast: Figueroa Mountain Brewing
Join Doc on his birthday as he and the Jeffs visit Figueroa Mountain Brewing, Central California’s most award-winning craft brewery. Brewer Chris Gonzalez joins the ILB gang to share about the journey…
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22 February
91X Beer for Breakfast: The Lost Abbey
Even after 18 years, The Lost Abbey keeps innovating, adjusting to meet consumer trends and find ways to keep on keeping on despite challenging times. Earlier this year, the world-renowned producer of…
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21 February
Beer of the Week: Coffee & Beer
There was a time when – no exaggeration – one or even several beer festivals took place pretty much every weekend in San Diego County. While there were, of course, certain standouts…
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20 February
What’s Tapping (2/20)
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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16 February
I Like Beer the Podcast: Unplanned Field Trip
Stood up by their in-studio guest, the ILB Team was left alone to shed tears in their beers. But, since they didn’t actually have any beer, they instead put on happy faces…
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15 February
91X Beer for Breakfast: Karl Strauss Brewing
This week, Brewmaster Paul Segura gets into some beers he’s fairly familiar with, considering he created them and all. That’s right, this episode is all about the trailblazing company he’s been a…
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14 February
NBC 7: Tariffs’ Effects on Breweries
This week, President Donald Trump announced a 25% blanket tariff on all future steel and aluminum imports. Breweries are a staple in the San Diego community. They, as well as many beverage…
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14 February
Beer of the Week: Full Send
”Roasty” is the adjective most often associated with stouts, but there’s always more to those dark, velvety beers than that. Long-kilned specialty malts spanning the brown-to-black end of the color spectrum form…
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13 February
What’s Tapping (2/13)
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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11 February
San Diego Beer News Awards voting is live!
Fans of local beer spent last month nominating their favorite breweries, ales an lagers in more than 20 different categories, and now the ballot for the 2025 San Diego Beer News Awards…
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