In the beverage-industry, they say it takes until March for beer-consumption to rebound to normal levels after the holidays. Good thing San Diego’s beer-slingers didn’t get that memo, because February … [Read more...] about February Events Sampler Flight
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Amplified Ale Works goes collab crazy
Many are the brewers and brewery personnel whose passion for music rivals their fervor for fermentation, but when analyzing the degree to which the musical bug has sunk its teeth into an entire … [Read more...] about Amplified Ale Works goes collab crazy
Sampler Flight: January Events
Yeah, yeah, we can pretend we’re going to stick to all those healthful resolutions that sounded so good when we were way inebriated at midnight on December 31, or we can get real and start planning … [Read more...] about Sampler Flight: January Events
2016 Recap: San Diego’s Most Improved Breweries
Yesterday, I laid out what I believe are the best new breweries to have opened in 2016. Today, in part two of my three-part retrospective series on breweries in San Diego County, I’m listing the … [Read more...] about 2016 Recap: San Diego’s Most Improved Breweries
2016 Recap: San Diego’s Best New Breweries
It’s the final month of the year, and time to reflect on the year nearly gone-by. For me, that means assessing San Diego County’s brewery landscape. That’s what I’ll be doing in a three-part series of … [Read more...] about 2016 Recap: San Diego’s Best New Breweries
Amplified Ale Works Miramar open for business
Thank God for the Internet. Thank God for Wordpress. Well…thank God for the Internet, anyway. Were it not for the real-time publishing capabilities of the web, I wouldn’t have been able to turn on a … [Read more...] about Amplified Ale Works Miramar open for business
Twisted Manzanita shuttering its PB tasting room
Santee-based Twisted Manzanita Ales & Spirits is closing down its tasting room in Pacific Beach. Located at 4652 Mission Boulevard, the 1,400-square-foot satellite, non-brewing facility was opened … [Read more...] about Twisted Manzanita shuttering its PB tasting room
SD Brewers Kill It at 2015 Great American Beer Festival
After several years in which San Diego County breweries had strong, but annually declining performances at the Great American Beer Festival (GABF), the 2015 edition of the country’s largest and most … [Read more...] about SD Brewers Kill It at 2015 Great American Beer Festival
Amplified Ale Works to brew in Miramar
Even with limited capacity, Amplified Ale Works has built a solid fan base brewing out of California Kebab on the second floor of Pacific Beach’s beach-adjacent Pacific Promenade shopping center. In … [Read more...] about Amplified Ale Works to brew in Miramar
Beer of the Week: Amplified Ale Works L3 Wit
From the Beer Writer: I love my wife. More surprisingly, she somehow finds the wherewithal to love me. She puts up with a lot—me having a full-time job and writing hundreds of articles per year, which … [Read more...] about Beer of the Week: Amplified Ale Works L3 Wit