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Thanks to the generosity of professional brewers across San Diego County, the sixth-annual edition of Homebrew Summer was a tremendous success. Sixteen local brewing companies paired up with amateur brewers to produce their ho...

Since launching this outlet in 2020, San Diego Beer News has maintained an always up-to-date list of every brewing company and brewery-owned venue in San Diego County. It’s been a helpful tool that we’ve been proud to provide. Now, we’re extending our efforts by adding an exte...

There are four things in life Justin Philips absolutely adores: his partner, his pup, their home community of Hillcrest and craft beer. Earlier this year, lamenting the dearth of locally brewed ales and lagers in his neighborhood, Phillips, who spent a half-decade working at a pair of Mike Hess Brewing tasting rooms, decided to put th...

Karl Strauss Brewing has released its award-winning, seasonal Golden Stout. The 7.5% alcohol-by-volume “Ridiculously Limited Release” beer is available on draft at Karl Strauss’ nine Southern California brewpubs, as well as in four packs of 16-ounce cans at the brewpubs and...

All too often, early entrants to the craft-beer scene eventually fall by the wayside, surpassed by newcomers zooming ahead of them on the very trails they helped blaze. But that is most definitely not the case with San Diego Brewing Co., a Mission Valley brewpu...