El Cajon
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PRAISING THE BAR
Praising the Bar: Burning Beard Brewing
At El Cajon’s Burning Beard Brewing, the brethren and sistren behind the bar march to a unique drumbeat blaring from…
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HOMEBREWING
Homebrew Summer: None Shall Pass
Often homebrewing is as much about hanging out as cooking up a beer. After all, the beermaking process is a…
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BEER NEWS
The end of the road in El Cajon
It was 2014 when local Connecticut coal-fired pizza chain URBN decided to leap head-first into the craft-brewing industry, teaming with…
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BREWERY GUIDES
Local Belgian Ale Guide
About 15 years ago, there was a Belgian beer renaissance raging across the United States. Even in hop-happy San Diego…
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BREWERY GUIDES
El Cajon, Lakeside & Alpine Brewery Guide
With miles and miles of beaches, it’s easy to think of San Diego exclusively as a coastal city, but its…
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BEER OF THE WEEK
Beer of the Week: Ezy RYEder
From the Beer Writer: Despite going by a singular term, hazy IPAs come in a range of different textures that…
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BEER NEWS
Affection and expansion for Creative Creature
In 2018, entrepreneur Derek Carnation signed on to take over a brewery built into URBN Coal-fired Pizza’s El Cajon location.…
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BEER NEWS
Stumbling into San Marcos
Ingenuity and inventiveness are at the heart of the craft-beer industry, but few lead with these traits quite like the…
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HOMEBREWING
Release: Kreaturebier Vienna Lager
As part of our San Diego Homebrew Summer program, a dozen local breweries are producing recipes from local homebrewers at…
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BEER OF THE WEEK
Beer of the Week: Dr. Barry N Friends Summertime Elixer
From the Beer Writer: Back in 2018, when a group of brewer-entrepreneurs named their entity Creative Creature Brewing, I hoped…
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