San Diego Beer News

San Diego Beer News serves as a complete guide to over 150 breweries in San Diego, highlighting their passionate owners, brewers, and staff. It covers countywide events and provides insights into what's currently available on tap. Both locals and visitors can enjoy updates from popular radio shows like 91X FM’s Beer for Breakfast and ALT 94.9 FM's Rock and Roll Happy Hour, along with top-notch podcasts such as The Indie Beer Show, Beer Night in San Diego, and Ballast Point Brewing's Dedicated to the Craft. The site also introduces readers to various industry organizations, such as the Pink Boots Society, Mujeres Brew Club, and the award-winning homebrew club QUAFF, as well as our beer journalist partners from LA and nearby areas, Beer Paper. And this is just the beginning!

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Homebrew supply venture starting out online

2 days ago | sandiegobeer.news | Brandon Hernández

If there’s one thing homebrewers love to do – other than brew, of course – it’s talk about beer and the process of making it. This extends to owners and staffers of homebrew supply outlets, nearly all of which are, themselves, recreational fermentationists. Walk into any such establishment in America and in no time you’re bound to find yourself in a lengthy conversation about yeast strains, fermentation temps or any number of technical brewing topics.
Craft brewers take concerns to Capitol

3 days ago | sandiegobeer.news | Brandon Hernández

Regular readers of San Diego Beer News know of the San Diego Brewers Guild(SDBG), a volunteer-driven non-profit trade organization working with the local breweries comprising its membership to, among other things, advocate and raise visibility for local beer and the companies that produce it at home and abroad while organizing engaging events for the industry and its fans.
Beer of the Week: Hidden Gold

1 week ago | sandiegobeer.news | Brandon Hernández

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 in the brewing process and generous brewers’ proclivity for sharing the fruits of their labor, drinking and shop talk typically make up the majority of such sessions.
Jake Cronenworth teams with Harland Brewing

1 week ago | sandiegobeer.news | Brandon Hernández

Fan enthusiasm is through the roof over the San Diego Padres’ phenomenal start to the 2025 baseball season. America’s Finest City is backing the club with Major League Baseball’s (MLB) finest record in a big way. That said, it’s likely few are quite as stoked as the crew at Harland Brewing, especially when it comes to a certain infielder with his very own zone.
QUAFF is "America’s Finest" homebrew club

1 week ago | sandiegobeer.news | Brandon Hernández

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 Homebrew Competition, results of which have been unveiled on the same day as our own San Diego Beer News Awards for the past several years.
2024’s top 50 U.S. craft brewing companies

1 week ago | sandiegobeer.news | Brandon Hernández

This morning, national trade organization, the Brewers Association (BA), released its annual lists of the country’s top 50 craft brewing companies and overall U.S. beer entities. Rankings for both lists were based on sales-volume figures obtained by the BA for calendar year 2024.
Northern Pine Brewing out, but not over

1 week ago | sandiegobeer.news | Brandon Hernández

With the emotion and logistics involved, it’s understandably difficult for brewery owners to announce they are closing their businesses. That chore is made even harder when something unexpected triggers a sudden shutdown. Such was the case this week when the team at Northern Pine Brewing was issued a notice to vacate the combination production facility, taproom and kitchen they’ve operated for the past seven years.
New name, same San Diego dominance!

2 weeks ago | sandiegobeer.news | Brandon Hernández

San Diego’s largest and most prestigious brewing competition not only has a brand-new scoring system, having adopted the same model as the Great American Beer Festival and World Beer Cup, it also has a brand-new name. What has operated as the San Diego International Beer Competition (and San Diego International Beer Festival before that) for the past 18 years shall henceforth be called the San Diego County Fair Craft Brew Competition (SDCFCBC).
White Labs celebrates 30 years of innovation

2 weeks ago | sandiegobeer.news | Brandon Hernández

It’s midafternoon on a weekday in 1994. A lanky young man is huddled in a phone booth, the receiver sandwiched between his ear and shoulder as the mercenary device sounds out ring after unrequited ring. Where is he? He knew I was coming. I called him an hour ago before leaving Temecula. C’mon, man, answer. I need to get back and I really need the stuff!Just then, the unmistakable sound of a handset being lifted from its cradle registers from the other end of the line. That you, Vinnie?
Beer of the Week: Padre Pils

3 weeks ago | sandiegobeer.news | Brandon Hernández

Admit it. After a relatively uneventful offseason (by A.J. Preller standards, anyway) marked more by ownership infighting than blockbuster trades and free-agent signings, you were at least a little concerned about our Padres. OK, maybe you knew all along that they would get out to a historically fast start, but I’m bold enough to confess that I was a tad worried.