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New and old favorites win beer medals, despite pandemic

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Lost Cause repeats its meads feats

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Kensington Brewing, brewing in Kensington

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House of Black Coffee Company taps into East Village

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New and old favorites win beer medals, despite pandemic

Fans know it. Brewers know it. And for the fourth time in five years, the judges of the Great American Beer Festival have affirmed it: the best robust porter in ...

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Lost Cause repeats its meads feats

For the second year in a row, San Diego’s own Lost Cause Meadery has won five medals from the Mazer Cup International Mead Competition, the world’s biggest judged mead contest. ...

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Kensington Brewing, brewing in Kensington

It took nearly eight years and the impact of a pandemic, but Kensington Brewing Company now officially brews beer in its namesake neighborhood. Founded in 2012, the nanobrewery spent years ...

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House of Black Coffee Company taps into East Village

Nearly six years ago, coffee enthusiasts Jason and Sandra Scheller were among the first to bring third-wave coffee to East Village with their shop, Bean Bar. In late September, after ...

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Oktoberfest beers to drink at home

Oktoberfest is canceled in 2020 — that is, the massive, more than two-week-long Munich beer drinking festival that’s taken place since 1810. The spirit of the event has survived the pandemic, however, and a number ...

September 25, 2020

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SinShip Spirits is putting tiki cocktails in a can

Back in the days of Prohibition, party boats would sit off the coast of San Diego and other California cities, just outside U.S. jurisdiction, where revelers could booze, gamble, and otherwise indulge. “They had free ...

September 17, 2020

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September 11, 2020

Pure Project's year of flexibility

“Times are moving fast right now and we are adapting,” read the email from Pure Project. The Miramar-based brewery had originally reached out to let me know it would begin serving beers at its new ...

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September 4, 2020

New English becomes an outdoor beer hub

For most of its years in Sorrento Valley, New English brewing has epitomized the classic San Diego craft brewery experience. Its industrial park setting within the city’s tech hub made it a natural place for ...

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August 28, 2020

First Light adds coffee whiskey to San Diego spirits

Coffee and bourbon fans take note: a new flavored whiskey brand hit the shelves in San Diego in August. First Light Coffee Whiskey debuted in local shops with two bottled flavors of coffee whiskey: original ...

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August 21, 2020

Dane Coffee brings cold brew mocktails to La Mesa

When last we saw Brielle Clark, she had secured a cottage license allowing her to roast coffee in her North Park kitchen. She and her bandmate/husband Scott used it to launch Dane Coffee in 2014, ...

San Diego Beer

August 6, 2020

No longer a David, Stone Brewing recast as a Goliath

Stone Brewing is one of the cornerstones of San Diego beer, and of the craft brewing industry as a whole. Behind marketing slogans such as “yellow fizzy beer is for wussies,” Stone has long postured ...

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July 24, 2020

Brew Catalog brings North County beers home

Amid the ever-changing rules about how breweries may do business, at least one positive development remains constant: the ability of breweries to deliver beer directly to consumers’ doorsteps. This regulatory relief has offered an opportunity ...

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Feel-good stories from San Diego beer

After Black Lives Matter protests appeared demanding social justice and police reform, a number of local breweries voiced support for the effort. Three dozen of them decided to participate in the nationwide Black is Beautiful ...

July 17, 2020

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Luna Bay Booch's San Diego origin story

Bridget Connelly lives and surfs in Encinitas, and it was in local waters that she decided to start a hard kombucha company in summer 2018. “Surfing is a lot of the times I feel the ...

July 9, 2020

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July 7, 2020

Mostra Coffee is finally caffeinating 4S Ranch

Though the pandemic continues to disrupt the restaurant industry, it hasn’t stopped the community of 4S Ranch from receiving a significant upgrade at coffee shop. Reigning micro-roaster of the year Mostra Coffee delayed the debut ...

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July 3, 2020

"We had to get canning quickly"

Rollercoaster 2020 continues to hammer home the message we have little idea what’s coming next. At this writing, San Diego somehow escaped being one of the 19 California counties the governor ordered or recommended bars, ...

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New and old favorites win beer medals, despite pandemic

Lost Cause repeats its meads feats

Kensington Brewing, brewing in Kensington

House of Black Coffee Company taps into East Village

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