A Toast to 27 Years: Inside Pizza Port’s Strong Ale Festival
When an event is still going strong after 27 years, you know it's something special. Enter Pizza Port's annual Strong Ale Festival, which takes place this wee...
Beer for Breakfast
Raise a Glass (and a Gift) at Burning Beard’s Three-Day Charity Bash
There’s never a bad time to visit El Cajon’s lone craft-beer producer, Burning Beard Brewing. They’ve been putting out high-quality lagers, IPAs, Belgian and En...
Booze Brothers Marks a Dozen Years with Festive Weekend & Exclusive Beers
For the past dozen years, Booze Brothers Brewing has been bringing fab beers and fraternal love to fun-loving North County denizens. Today and tomorrow, they wi...
Koobrew Arrives: A New Wave of Beer and Beyond
There's a new brewery in town and it's in the same place that previously housed not one, but two beer companies. This rookie op goes by the name Koobrew, and is...
Discovering Escondido’s Backyard Brewery
Few beer enterprises are as aptly named as Escondido’s Backyard Brewery. Located in the literal shadow of the hill that houses Stone Brewing’s castle-like headq...
From Halloween to Hops: Marty and Brandon Gear Up for San Diego Beer Week
It may be Halloween, but Marty and Brandon have their sights set a week in the future when San Diego Beer Week will be in full swing and they'll be joining in t...
Capital of Craft Pt. 1 — Kilowatt + Hodad’s
Capital of Craft Beer Festival (Part 1) | Friday, October 24: San Diego Beer Week will take place from November 7 to 16, but its official kickoff event, the Cap...
Oct 18: Taste the Tradition at Lightning Brewery’s Oktoberfest
It's one of the county's smallest beer-making operations, Poway's lone brewery, and it’s been going strong for nearly 20 years. An institution devoted to German...
Oct 11: Shrektober at Weir Beer
When a '90s-obsessed husband-wife duo opened a new brewery in South Vista last year, they instantly amazed the BFB crew with the quality and inventiveness of no...