San Diego Beer & Beverage News

Join the San Diego Brewers Guild tonight from 5 - 9 p.m. for an event focused on great beer and great art. Tickets are $35 at the door and include 10 four-ounce pours. Breweries featured: Ballast … [Read more...] about Bankers Hill Art & Craft Beer Festival

North Park's Thorn St. Brewery (TSB) created their first beer, North Park Pale Ale, in November 2012 on a 7-BBL system, and they have been steadily increasing production ever since. Recently they … [Read more...] about What’s Brewing: Thorn St.

In a truly remarkable showing of brewery collaboration, on March 6 Alpine Beer Company brewed 250 BBLs (5 50-BBL batches) of Alpine Nelson IPA using the Green Flash system in Mira Mesa. Photos from … [Read more...] about Alpine Nelson Brew @ Green Flash

Rip Current, the San Marcos-based brewery that just belatedly celebrated their one-year anniversary this past weekend, is throwing their biggest tap takeover ever tomorrow night at Barrel Republic in … [Read more...] about Rip Current Tap Takeover @ Barrel Republic 3/21

Straight from the host website, "...what sounds like the beginning of a rather bad joke is a fun, new outreach program by the Reuben H. Fleet Science Center" scheduled for tomorrow night all over … [Read more...] about Two Scientists Walk Into a Bar…

March is Women's History Month, and many local beer businesses are getting in the spirit with female-focused events. Tonight at Stone Liberty Station is the Beer U: Women & Brewing event, … [Read more...] about Women in Beer Events

This afternoon we visited Saint Archer Brewing Company in Miramar to speak with head brewer Kim Lutz about canning, Europe trips and more... Saint Archer is getting ready for its first canning run. … [Read more...] about Q&A w/ Saint Archer’s Kim Lutz

At the Rip Current one-year anniversary party on Saturday, AleSmith Brewing Company owner Peter Zien told West Coaster that big expansion plans are underway... By January 1, 2015, Zien and the team … [Read more...] about AleSmith: Expanding

We are happy to announce the first Brew Local homebrewing contest by West Coaster.  Celebrate our vibrant cornucopia of local ingredients and DIY ethic. Simply brew a beer, cider, or mead utilizing … [Read more...] about WC Homebrewing Contest: Brew Local

West Coaster invites you to check out the debut of our new "Behind the Brew" video series featuring Ballast Point Sculpin IPA! The production team was headed by Sheldon Kaplan, creator of Suds … [Read more...] about “Behind the Brew” Video Series Debut