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
- Indie Beer Show (no longer active)
- 91X Beer for Breakfast
- I Like Beer: The Podcast (North San Diego County focus)
- San Diego Beer Talk Radio
- San Diego Brewers Guild Instagram Live (archive 2020-04-01 through 2021-01-27)
- 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)
- Wild West Homebrew Community Podcast
Other Sources
- Business is Brewing (City of San Diego Economic Development Department with interactive map. This is only San Diego City, not entire county.)
- San Diego Beer News (blog, five-day-a-week news through website and mailing list.)
- San Diego Coast Lifestyle (YouTube channel.)
- San Diego Union Tribune 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.)