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Good beer, a friendly staff and a stocked jukebox give people plenty of reasons to patronize Burning Beard Brewing, but the El Cajon cult favorite is adding an amenity. Ownership is working to install … [Read more...] about Beer Briefs: Burning Beard | Fall | KO Underground
A trio of local breweries create collaboration brews for San Diego Magazine
Each year, San Diego Magazine releases a “Best of San Diego” issue, featuring businesses spanning numerous industries, including local craft breweries. This year, to take things a step farther for the … [Read more...] about “Best of” collaboration beers
San Diegan brewers earned 21 medals (eight first place/gold, six second place/silver, and seven third place/bronze) at the California State Fair Commercial Beer Competition. El Cajon's Burning Beard … [Read more...] about 21 medals for San Diegans at the California State Fair
National City will soon be home to nanobrewery-slash-ice cream parlor
Last September, National City welcomed its first craft brewery, Embarcadero Brewing and Supply. That nanobrewery and homebrew store will be joined later this year by another hybrid business…a combo … [Read more...] about Hannegan’s House Beer Co. & Creamery
Grantville brewery shutters after six years in business
It's been a rough year for the family-run Benchmark Brewing. Myriad financial difficulties made it look as though the Grantville interest would go out of business several times over the past several … [Read more...] about Benchmark Brewing closed
Pacific Islander Beer’s hoppy red ale apt for the islands…or East County
From the Beer Writer: I enjoy every type of beer, but of all the ales and lagers in the almost infinitely varied sudscape, the style I tend to have the least love for are hoppy red ales. In theory, … [Read more...] about Beer of the Week: Sunset Red
Nickel Beer, Bitter Brothers Brewing making difference for veterans
In the decades he has been part of San Diego’s beer community, Tom Nickel has brewed a great many beers. A former World Beer Cup champion brewer and current owner and brewmaster at Julian’s Nickel … [Read more...] about Warrior Contribution Beer fights PTSD
North County brewery adding on, getting into hard-seltzer game
Only in a county with roughly 160 operating brewhouses could Belching Beaver Brewery fly under the radar the way they have over the past seven years. Few local beer fans know it, but it is a big-time … [Read more...] about Belching Beaver expanding and diversifying
A new North County brewpub, downtown taproom and Santee space
After years of construction, Acoustic Ales Brewing Experiment has opened its new location in Carlsbad. Located at 6133 Innovation Way in the Bressi Ranch inland mixed-use development, the brewpub … [Read more...] about Beer Briefs: Carlsbad Brewing | Latitude 33 | Creative Creature
Beach Grease Beer Co. continues its quest for easy-drinking pilsners
From the Beer Writer: You hear the term "poundable" everywhere these days, but if you want to see it everywhere, head to Vista. Beach Grease Beer Co.'s tasting room employs the easy-drinking … [Read more...] about Beer of the Week: Poundable Pilsner
