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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Apr- 2025 -20 April
I Like Beer the Podcast: Copper Kings
A rare tandem of one Jeff and one Joe find themselves at Copper Kings Burgers. Dermot Owens and Alfredo Vega shared the origin story and the unique experiences available at their San…
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19 April
91X Beer for Breakfast: Bock
Last month, South Park welcomed a brand-new bar and restaurant from the minds behind Bottlecraft and Biersal. Going by the name Bock, it celebrates Germany’s bierhalle culture with cozy environs, delectable Deutsch delicacies…
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18 April
Beer of the Week: Hidden Gold
Quite often, collaboration days – professionals from different breweries coming together at a singular establishment to produce a special beer – come across as straight-up boondoggles. With so much downtime between steps…
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17 April
What’s Tapping (4/17)
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 April
QUAFF is “America’s Finest” homebrew club
There have been so many different brewing competitions going on of late that it’s getting tough to cover them all. To be fair, that’s always the case with the America’s Finest City…
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14 April
Portrait of a Brewer: Derek Lauridsen, Home Brew Mart
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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13 April
I Like Beer the Podcast: Keystone Check-in
Join the ILB team as they hit one of their favorite streets in North County San Diego: Keystone Way! With several amazing breweries all on one walkable avenue, beer-lovers can’t go wrong…
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12 April
91X Beer for Breakfast: Pure Project Brewing
This week’s adult-beverage breakfast sesh focuses on a local brewing company that releases beers nearly as often as we run this segment. That prolific Vista-based operation is Pure Project Brewing, a nine-year-old…
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11 April
Beer of the Week: Shoot from the Hip
There’s no industry quite like craft brewing. Beyond the sharing of would-be trade secrets, ingredients and equipment, and beer companies’ unabashed affinity for one another and their products, individuals from different businesses…
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10 April
What’s Tapping (4/10)
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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