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Culture Brewing FestCoast Oktoberfest Runs Through Oct. 25

BeerAlien — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 14:43:57 +0000

Field note from the Bureau's coastal lager desk: the humans of North County have moved Oktoberfest, and nobody filed the paperwork. Culture Brewing FestCoast is the Solana Beach brewery’s limited-edition fest bier, and its Oktoberfest celebration runs through Sunday, Oct. 25, 2026, at all three Culture taprooms. That is well past the German calendar, which...

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Nickel Beer Green Truck: A Wet-Hop DIPA Brewed in a Father’s Memory

BeerAlien — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 21:37:45 +0000

A green truck, an Amarillo harvest and a father’s favorite pint: a Julian transmission with heart. Nickel Beer Green Truck is the wet-hop double IPA that Tom Nickel calls his favorite brew day of the year, and on Oct. 12, 2026, San Diego Beer News published his homebrew recipe for it, along with a tribute...

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Burgeon and WhiteFrontier Release Hop Suisse, a 6.9% DDH West Coast IPA

BeerAlien — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 21:13:48 +0000

Hop Suisse is a 6.9% double dry-hopped West Coast IPA from Carlsbad’s Burgeon Beer Co., brewed in collaboration with WhiteFrontier, a brewery in Martigny, Switzerland. It came out Friday, Oct. 9, in 4-packs and on draft, alongside a new hazy IPA called Freaky Tiki, according to Burgeon’s release post. A San Diego County brewery and...

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The Roadies Brewing Is Returning to Vista With New Partners

BeerAlien — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 20:18:23 +0000

The stage behind the bar in Vista went quiet at the end of August. Now The Roadies Brewing, the brewery and live-music venue that closed then, is staging a comeback with two new partners: Mexico City Cuisine and Metrico Hospitality Group. Owners Diane and Sean Hilz told San Diego Beer News on Sept. 25 that...

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Burning Beard Brewing’s Gillespie Field Hangar Move Awaits FAA Call

BeerAlien — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 19:07:53 +0000

Burning Beard Brewing’s new home is still grounded. As of Oct. 9, 2026, the El Cajon brewery has moved its equipment into a former airplane hangar at Gillespie Field, but it can’t open until the building is cleared for non-aviation use, a call that now appears to rest with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). No...

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Winners of the San Diego Beer News Awards announced

Gaaron Varner — Fri, 01 Apr 2022 18:55:27 +0000

Winners of the San Diego Beer News Awards announced Winning breweries and beers in fan-voted competition from local outlet, San Diego Beer News, receive recognition from peers in a packed house at star-studded in-person awards show SAN DIEGO, CA (March 31, 2022)—Members of the brewing industry, craft-beer community, local media and more came out for...

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Local brewery and beer-media outlet releasing Cover Story IPA

Gaaron Varner — Thu, 15 Jul 2021 01:21:05 +0000

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Press Contact: Mackenzie Graham Marketing Director, Burgeon Beer Co. Phone: (214) 995-1104 Email: mackenzieg@burgeonbeer.com Local brewery and beer-media outlet releasing Cover Story IPA Award-winning Burgeon Beer Co. teams with San Diego Beer News to brew a West Coast IPA and release it in Little Italy on August 6 to celebrate the...

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Ballast Point, Kilowatt Brewing and Friends Team up to Brew Black is Beautiful Chicory Stout

Gaaron Varner — Fri, 07 Aug 2020 22:08:01 +0000

Ballast Point, Kilowatt Brewing & Friends Team up to Brew Black is Beautiful Chicory Stout Ballast Point, Kilowatt Brewing, Mujeres Beer House, San Diego Beer News and several of their friends in the San Diego craft beer community have joined forces to brew their version of the Black Is Beautiful collaboration brewing project organized by...

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