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
- 91X Beer for Breakfast
- I Like Beer: The Podcast (North San Diego County focus)
- San Diego Brewers Guild Instagram Live (archive 2020-04-01 through 2021-01-27)
- San Diego Brewers Guild Capital of Craft Podcasts (Youtube as well as other podcast services)
- San Diego Hoppy Hour Podcast
- ALT 949 Rock & Roll Happy Hour
- Beer Night in San Diego/3 B Zine
- Dedicated to the Craft (Ballast Point)
- Cheers! North County (not all content is beer-related)
- San Diego Beer Talk Radio
- Indie Beer Show (no longer active)
- Wild West Homebrew Community Podcast
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)
- Beer Mighty Things: A craft beverage podcast (industry focus)
- Beervana (blog and podcast by Jeff Alworthy, author of the Beer Bible.)
- Oregon Hops and Brewing Archive (tumblr blog)
- Good Beer Hunting
- Brewing Network
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.)