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- 2023 -26 May
Beer of the Week: Fan Fare
From the Beer Writer: When most beer aficionados think of classic West Coast IPAs, lupulin-rich “C hops” come to mind. And with good reason. Bitter, piney-tasting Cascade, Chinook, Columbus and Centennial hops…
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25 May
What’s Tapping (5/25/23)
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. For more details regarding release/tapping dates,…
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22 May
Portrait of a Brewer: Hunter Mannix, Hopnonymous Brewing
There are hundreds of hard-working brewing professionals giving their all to help maintain the storied reputation San Diego’s brewing scene has earned over the past several decades. Some have risen to great…
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19 May
Beer of the Week: Major Pour
From the Beer Writer: Often, craft breweries’ passion-project beers–ales and lagers developed for an organization, cause or entity close to a company and its employees’ hearts–are “special” in some way. This can…
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18 May
What’s Tapping (5/18/23)
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. For more details regarding release/tapping dates,…
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18 May
FOX 5: Temecula Valley Breweries
May is a big month for San Diego’s northerly neighbors in Temecula and Murrieta. Not only will their biggest event of the year, the three-day Temecula Valley Balloon and Wine Festival, take…
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15 May
Portrait of a Brewer: Aeryk Heeg, Black Plague Brewing
There are hundreds of hard-working brewing professionals giving their all to help maintain the storied reputation San Diego’s brewing scene has earned over the past several decades. Some have risen to great…
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12 May
Beer of the Week: Diamond Dust
From the Beer Writer: These days it’s common–not to mention a lot of fun–to see breweries experimenting with IPA hop-bills on a frequent basis. Frequent as in every week or two. Whereas…
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11 May
What’s Tapping (5/11/23)
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. For more details regarding release/tapping dates,…
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8 May
Portrait of a Brewer: Andrew Kelly, Embolden Beer Co.
There are hundreds of hard-working brewing professionals giving their all to help maintain the storied reputation San Diego’s brewing scene has earned over the past several decades. Some have risen to great…
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