Karl Strauss Golden Stout returns for 2026, the seventh straight year for the 7.5% coffee beer, on draft at nine SoCal brewpubs and in 16-ounce four-packs in California, Arizona and Nevada.
Three Sorrento Valley taprooms and Sorrento Mesa brewpubs—Karl Strauss, Gravity Heights and New English—verified Nov. 9, 2026, with no overlap from the Miramar or Kearny Mesa guides.
This weekly beer roundup revisits November 1–7, 2026: Quarry Escondido, Full Sail, Black Market, new releases and a San Diego Beer Week pairing event.
Stone Brewing brings back its legendary double IPA for a limited seasonal run at all San Diego locations, the final drop in its 30th Anniversary Rebrews.
In a post-election update, the Brewers Association says aluminum tariffs, hemp regulation and cost-cutting bills like the Brews to Barns Act are on its radar, and that caucus turnover makes outreach to new lawmakers more urgent.
A guide to Pacific Beach breweries, brewery-run taprooms and beer bars, plus Draft in Mission Beach, with five official-site-checked addresses and schedules.
12 Oceanside and Carlsbad breweries and taprooms in coastal North County, with addresses and hours checked against official sites on Nov. 7, 2026.
AleSmith’s Speedway Stout: Grand Prix on the Road mixed 4-pack brings four 12% ice cream-inspired variants. It is at the Miramar taproom ahead of the Nov. 12–14 Speedway Grand Prix.
Five Kearny Mesa breweries and one brewery-run ramen bar near Convoy Street, each checked against its own website on Nov. 6, 2026 for address and hours.
A West Coast pilsner collab and a 6.6% fresh hop IPA are in Burgeon’s online shop for Beer Week.
Altars turned brew decks, pews turned bar tops: five former churches that now pour beer.
Free GA at Little Italy Nov. 7 and Long Beach Nov. 14–15, with First Mate and VIP upgrades on Ballast Point’s page.
Mujeres, Mason and Tiny Giant — addresses checked Nov. 5; weekly hours not posted on official pages, so confirm before you go.
$5 Milagro pints at every Pure Project taproom, a coffee-stout slushie at four, and a run of new UK stouts.
Seven stops from NPBC’s free Drinkabout Bus, all checked on Nov. 5: NPBC, Fall (x2), Seek, Whistle Stop, Bock and Blind Lady.
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