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When the San Diego Beer News makes a recommendation, I tend to listen. And listening is the key word as there were two recent podcasts highlighted….
I found I Like Beer in my Overcast app and you can check out the Beer for Breakfast show HERE.
I am a beer traveler. When I go to a destination, part of my prep is a list of breweries to visit. That list will always be too long. Part of the reason why is that there are guides like San Diego Beer News that put a lot onto a plate.
And since fall is a great time to travel with fares down from summer highs until the holidays hit, you should check out the guides again since I have already told you about them before.
There are new ones out though!
You can start HERE with the local San Diego breweries.
Then head HERE for the rest of the U.S.
San Diego Beer News held their 2024 awards at Stone – Liberty Station a couple days ago with the theme of Celebrating the Next Generation.
Here are some takeaways from the event…
Burgeon, Pure Project and GOAL brewing won the most medals
I love that there are not only awards for beer but for customer service, expansion and interior
I was heartened to see that each medal was “presented by” a business which augurs well for an industry beset of late.
You can get the full recap HERE
I have given shout outs to San Diego Beer News and Brandon Hernandez a few times on this blog and have used his brewery travel guides to help when visiting a beer inundated part of the country and now he has a new guide up appropriate for hop season, Walla Walla.
One of my beer bucket list items, climate change permitting, is to visit that major hop growing area during harvest, and I will book mark the Walla Walla via San Diego page for sure.
Time to look to the south of L.A. to see who won at the San Diego Beer News Awards last night…
Let’s do the numbers….(rather, summarize the winners)
Eppig won the most combined medals for first, second and third place finishes amongst the 26 beer style categories.
Burgeon won most votes for best brewery with regional winners including…
North – Pure Project
Central – Societe
East – Stone
South – North Park Beer
Finally, Tomme Arthur won the first ever Vanguard Brewer Award.