San Diego Beer
Urge: Craft Alley to bring brewpub, bottle shop, bowling alley to North County
In February, Monkey Paw Pub & Brewery (805 16th Street, East Village) brewmaster Derek Freese unexpectedly gave notice at the brewpub so he could take a job with Point Loma work-in-progress Modern Times Beer. He …
Celebrating the winner of a recent San Diego India pale ale challenge.
SDSU alum's brewpub delayed but it's full steam ahead for new beer series.
Back in 2009, I went to dinner at Azul La Jolla. Upon arrival, I provided my name to the hostess and was shown to my table. A minute later, the restaurant’s general manager and chef …
Miramar brewery producing Bourbon and water's beery doppelganger.
San Diego breweries vying for "Best Coast" IPA supremacy at LOUNGEsix.
Homebrewers turned pros revive a near-dead German rye ale in San Marcos.
Local brewing company going big by going small in niche metro community.
At a recent SDSU Alumni Association panel discussion on the business of craft brewing, AleSmith owner and brewmaster Peter Zien professed how important San Diego’s homebrewing community is to the success of craft beer in …
Coronado Brewing Company unexpectedly shuts down WIP artisanal line.
It’s no secret. San Diego beer is a cut above; something to both enjoy and celebrate. Everybody in the imbibing community says it, hundreds of bar and restaurant owners profess it in words and with …
Remember when hefeweizens were as ubiquitous as IPAs are today and amber/red ales were back in the nineties? Whether it was craft beer or even the macro big boys, nearly everybody had a Germanic wheat …
I pride myself on being on the bleeding edge of San Diego’s incoming brewery class. Often, I’ll report on new operations months or even over a year before they open their doors. I was the …
The Boston Beer Company claim rights to Carlsbad brewery's name.
Beery beast belongs outside shadow cast by Sculpin and Victory At Sea.