Film, Podcasts, etc.

A list of some film documentaries, television episodes, and podcasts featuring San Diego brewers and breweries, women on brewing, and beer/brewing history. 

Film

Beer City San Diego (David Wadsworth and Aubree Miller, release date August 5, 2021. 

Beer Jesus from America (Sweetwood Films, 2019) Available on Amazon Prime

Craft: The California Beer Documentary (Jeff Smith, dir., 2016) Available on Amazon Prime

Suds County USA (Sheldon Kaplan, dir., 2011)

Television

Kings of the Craft (KPBS, 2015-2016)

Savor San Diego (KPBS)

  • Season 2, episode 5 (2014, Ballast Point, White Labs)
  • Season 4, episode 2 (2017, Nickel Beer in Julian)

Podcasts 

Other Sources

  • San Diego Beer News (blog, five-day-a-week news through website and mailing list.)
  • Business is Brewing (City of San Diego Economic Development Department with interactive map. This is only San Diego City, not entire county.)
  • San Diego Coast Lifestyle (YouTube channel.)
  • San Diego Union Tribune newspapers features various local beer writers in regular and special articles. Peter Rowe, Brandon Hernandez, Sara Butler are some of the frequent authors. 

Other Media (not SD-focused)

Women on Beer and Brewing (may require subscribing or purchase)

  • Girl Beer (documentary on women in Los Angeles beer scene) 
  • Women's Craft Beer Collective
  • Flora Brewing (podcasts and more
  • Tara Nurin (publishes through a range of magazines and wrote the book A Woman's Place is in the Brewhouse, Sept. 2021) 
  • Beth Demmon (publishes through a range of magazines, podcasts, etc.)