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How Mother Earth quietly became one of our most successful breweries
Brewing in Idaho even made its Vista beer better
Fun fact: Idaho’s largest brewery is headquartered in Vista, California. That’s because, in 2016, Mother Earth Brew Co. expanded beer production to Nampa, Idaho, a small city about 15 miles outside Boise. San Diego beer ...
Latitude 33 sold its brewery and only got bigger
Vista brewer doubles capacity shifting production to Green Flash brewhouse
After seven years in business, Latitude 33 Brewing met a crossroads. Led by flagship beers including Blood Orange IPA and Honey Hips blonde, the Vista beer company had quadrupled beer production in 2016, and doubled ...
Hopnonymous Brewing unmasked
With a new taproom, an under-the-radar beer company comes into the light
Back in June 2018, a small startup started offering local restaurants a chance to pour their own house beers, using custom-branded, 3-D printed tap handles. In this way, Hopnonymous Brewing Company began as a specialty ...
Biggest San Diego beer news stories of 2019
Rising competition is the force behind of a lot of beer news
In previous years, I’ve used this space to reflect on the number of San Diego breweries that have closed the year prior. Sadly, such closures have become such a common part of the industry. Even ...
Tijuana’s Cerveceria Insurgente has its brewery back — for now
Baja’s esteemed craft brewer survived with help of a hush hush taproom, and beer friends
On Wednesday, December 18, Tijuana craft brewer Cerveceria Insurgente resumed making beer in its Zona Rio brewery for the first time since October 5, when municipal authorities abruptly closed the property, reportedly at the behest ...
Who are Kings & Convicts Brewing, and what are their plans for Ballast Point?
A look at the surprising new players in local beer, and a reaction from the San Diego Brewers Guild
How did a suburban Chicago nanobrewery wind up buying San Diego’s famous billion dollar craft beer icon? That’s the question that crashed the website of Kings & Convicts Brewing when news broke Tuesday the little ...
Novo Brazil is huge in Otay Ranch
Beer, seltzer, and kombucha flow at Chula brewer's new brewpub
Already the county’s southeasternmost brewery, Novo Brazil Brewing has opened a second location somehow even farther southeast. And it’s not small. The roughly 14-thousand-square-foot brewery and restaurant occupies a corner spot at the upscale Otay ...
Harland Brewing brings familiar faces back to San Diego Beer
Saint Archer team returns with two new taprooms and a distribution company
A little over a year ago, a new San Diego-focused alcohol distributor announced its launch. Scout Distribution boasted a small portfolio of known and emerging local brands including Abnormal Beer, Bivouac Cider, and Juneshine hard ...
Belgian Beer and Waffles (and fries)
Sweet, savory, vegan, gluten-free, and twice fried
As I approach what used to be a Starbucks on University Avenue, a corner unit of the historic North Park Theatre building, a sign written in large letters announces a welcome change: it’s now a ...
Kilowatt brews quirky tiki cocktails for Forbidden Cove
Undistilled spirits fuel a glowing Kearny Mesa speakeasy
To access Forbidden Cove, you’ll need a carved wooden idol that unlocks a secret doorway leading into a narrow hallway where your own mirror reflection echoes before and behind you into infinity. It’s a simple ...
Meadiocrity Mead's honeycomb hideout
Beekeeping mead makers now serving in San Marcos
Slowly but surely, San Diego’s mead industry is growing. The latest example: Meadiocrity Mead, a brand that, now a little over three years since contract brewing its first mead, has finally opened its own meadery ...
San Diego drinking without IPAs
Porters, lagers, pilsners, bocks, ales, bitters, grisettes, sours, ciders, meads, natural wine, kombuchas, beerwhiskey, upcycled vodka, sakes, San Diego gin
Nobody’s knocking IPAs. The hoppy pale ale style that built San Diego’s beer reputation is alive and well. We have hundreds to choose from every single day. We are spoiled with IPA options. But sometimes, ...
