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Beer News Roundup
The cans arrived at Monkey Paw yesterday. Photo from brewer Derek Freese's Facebook page. YES, THEY CAN! — Scot Blair, owner of the East Village brewery and pub Monkey Paw, announced in an e-mail...
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Got Mother’s Day Plans?
Still looking for Mother’s Day plans? Well, luckily the San Diego beer community has you covered. One nice option is the “Bring Mom Out For A Beer Day” hop on/hop off bus that will shuttle you and...
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Plates & Pints: Going Whole Hog
This column appears on page 16 of the June 2012 print issue, which you can download or view here. The menu from the first edition of The Quarterly. Photo by Brandon Hernández The 30th Street block...
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Stone Company Store South Park, Year 1
The first expansion outside the Escondido location of the Stone Brewing Co. empire, the Stone Company Store South Park, is turning 1 this Friday, June 15th. According to Stone Media Lynchpin (actual...
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Perfect Storm: Weekend of 6/29 Packed With Beer Events
Through cosmic happenstance, this weekend, specifically Saturday, is absolutely PACKED with beer events. Below is a listing of what’s going down 6/29-7/1 with a few lines of explanation. Friday 6/29...
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Weekend Beer Preview
There’s a lot going on this weekend in San Diego beer. Not only do we brew the best beer in the world, we attract the best as well. Is your event not listed? Submit it to our calendar. Thursday 8/16...
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Weekend Events 10/19-21
We’ve got a big, wild weekend coming up in San Diego beer. Below you’ll find plenty of anniversary celebrations, plus an array of other beer-y events all around the county. Anniversary Events El Cajon...
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Publisher’s Picks: SDBW 2012
Happy San Diego Beer Week eve! As of this posting, there’s 363 events on SDBW.org. I’ve picked just one event for each day – which was pretty difficult. Please note that this list is VERY SUBJECTIVE...
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Weekend Forecast: Beer
It’s another big weekend in San Diego Beer… Friday - Swieners, Red Oven, The Sushi Bus, Casanova Fish Tacos and Kumpir, otherwise known as the “Fab 5 Foodie Group”, will join forces at the first Tent...
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CA Beer Invasion: South & North Park
Tonight: Los Angeles’ Golden Road’s co-founder Meg Gill and Brewmaster Jesse Houck will grace Hamilton’s Tavern in South Park until 7 p.m. with seven beers and a specialty cask. Wolf Among Weeds IPA,...
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San Diego Beer Week 2014 – Publisher’s Picks
Kegs have been hoarded, tap lines cleaned, and lineups finalized. It’s go time in the San Diego beer world. Lots of hard work has gone into this 6th incarnation of the 10 day confederation of beer...
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The 14 in ’14: Best of San Diego Beer
In past years, West Coaster ran a feature covering who we thought would be the movers and shakers of the upcoming year. Now, for 2014, we’ve opened up the feature to our readers by way of an online...
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Free Fall
Ray Astamendi “We’re getting the band back together,” says Ray Astamendi, owner and brewmaster of Fall Brewing Co. Ray and his team of merry misfits fell on the northern end of 30th Street on the...
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Q&A with Adam Carbonell
Assistant brewer Adam Carbonell (right) with his Left Hand Brewing counterpart at South Park Brewing Co. Assistant Brewer, South Park Brewing Company As a young and wily brewer, Adam Carbonell gained...
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Hamiltons 9th Anniversary Continues
There aren’t many beer drinkers in San Diego who haven’t heard of Hamiltons Tavern. Its vocal publican Scot Blair — an instructor in SDSU’s Business of Craft Beer program — has helped push the local...
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CityBeat’s Best of SD
Today San Diego CityBeat released its annual Best of San Diego issue, with the redesigned Tom Ham’s Lighthouse receiving a mini-feature. Then in the Readers Poll sections, several San Diego beer...
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15 in ’15: Best of San Diego Beer 2015
One of our main missions at West Coaster is to showcase the talented humans and businesses that create the San Diego brewing community. For this feature, we asked our readers for help. The 15 in ‘15...
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2015 Recap: Beer’s Present
Veteran Ray Astamendi’s Fall Brewing Co. tops my list of best new San Diego County breweries Each year, I take time to look back at the new brewing companies that opened within the past 12 months (or...
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Q&A: Scot Blair—Part 1
Owner; Monkey Paw Pub & Brewing, South Park Brewing Company & Hamilton’s Tavern Big Beer conglomerate AB-InBev’s 10 Barrel Brewpub project seemed to come out of nowhere. Slated for entry into...
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Q&A: Scot Blair—Part 2
Owner; Monkey Paw Pub & Brewing, South Park Brewing Company & Hamilton’s Tavern Last week, local bar and brewpub powerhouse Scot Blair (Monkey Paw Pub & Brewery, Hamilton’s Tavern, South...
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