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Best Beer Futures: Expansions
A rendering of Karl Strauss’ proposed Santee complex For years, I’ve named the most promising work-in-progress brewing companies on a bi-annual basis. The scene is always changing and new projects are...
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November Events Sampler Flight: Best of Beer Week
If ever there were a month made for craft-beer revelry, November is it. San Diego Beer Week takes place from November 4-13 and includes literally hundreds of events throughout the county. They range...
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Beer of the Week: White Labs Hansen Hefeweizen (WLP300 Version)
White Labs Hansen Hefeweizen fermented with WLP300 Hefeweizen Yeast From the Beer Writer: I spent my Election Night taking in a fundraiser for the Beer to the Rescue charity campaign at the Miramar...
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Sampler Flight: December Events
The season of good-will and merriment is upon us…also, holiday beers and celebrating. Submitted for your enjoyment are several local events taking place this December. Salt-and-pepper...
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2016 Recap: San Diego’s Best New Breweries
It’s the final month of the year, and time to reflect on the year nearly gone-by. For me, that means assessing San Diego County’s brewery landscape. That’s what I’ll be doing in a three-part series of...
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2016 Recap: San Diego’s Most Improved Breweries
Yesterday, I laid out what I believe are the best new breweries to have opened in 2016. Today, in part two of my three-part retrospective series on breweries in San Diego County, I’m listing the...
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What are the best breweries in San Diego? Having reported on the San Diego brewing industry for nearly 10 years and having written a guide to San Diego breweries, I get asked this question all the...
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Beer of the Week: Mikkeller Amoeba Brett IPA
Amoeba Brett IPA from Mikkeller Brewing San Diego From the Beer Writer: When Mikkeller announced plans to merge with San Diego stalwart AleSmith Brewing Company, I, like many, was very excited. This...
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32 North beer to benefit cancer conqueror
Julia Davidson and her family at 32 North’s tasting room with brewer Jeff Swem There are plenty of positive things to appreciate about San Diego’s brewing community. Ales and lagers take the spotlight,...
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Q&A: Mikkel Borg Bjergsø
Owner & Brewmaster, Mikkeller Brewing San Diego Last year, 10-year Denmark-based gypsy brewer Mikkel Borg Bjergsø hammered down stakes in Miramar, transforming AleSmith Brewing Co.’s original...
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Amplified Ale Works goes collab crazy
The Amplified Collab Crew (left-to-right): Jeff Campbell, Cy Henley, Alex Pierson and JC Hill (also of Alvarado Street Brewery) Many are the brewers and brewery personnel whose passion for music rivals...
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32 North closes Liberty Station taproom
Last weekend, 32 North Brewing Company officially closed the doors to its tasting room within Point Loma’s Liberty Station development. That space, which consisted of a small bar outfitted with ten...
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Mikkeller San Diego head brewer resigns
I remember sitting in the FM 94/9 studio during an edition of the station’s Rock and Roll Happy Hour that brought together members of AleSmith Brewing Company and newly established Mikkeller Brewing...
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Beer of the Week: Burning Beard Barrel-Aged Panic at the Monastery
Barrel-aged Panic at the Monastery from El Cajon’s Burning Beard Brewing From the Beer Writer: I can be a tough judge of a brewery’s character and wares, but from the first time I visited El Cajon’s...
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April Events Sampler Flight
There’s no fooling around—April is brimming over with beer-related events worth attending. So much so that highlighting a mere five was very difficult. Consider this the tip of the iceberg. Peruse this...
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Collabs a-plenty fuel Intergalactic Brewing anniversary
In its nearly four years of existence, Intergalactic Brewing Company (9715 Carroll Centre Road, Miramar) has stayed under the radar within the local suds solar system while also racking up an...
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San Diego’s satellite tasting room projects
The future home of Little Miss Brewing’s tasting room in OB (three doors down from Culture Brewing’s satellite) Breweries make the best margin by far when selling their beer in their taprooms. With a...
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San Diego International Beer Festival winners
Winners of the San Diego International Beer Festival’s professional brewing competition were released today. A component of the San Diego County Fair’s annual festivities, the competition included...
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Best San Diego Beer Futures: West
Last week, we examined some of the most promising work-in-progress beer projects in the eastern portions of San Diego County. Today, as part of this bi-annual four-part series, I am offering up...
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Reckless Brewing’s new tasting room
Miramar’s Carrol Way is home to a pair of businesses that couldn’t be more different from each other. On one side of the street is the colossal manufacturing headquarters of Ballast Point Brewing, a...
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