The Launch of San Diego Beer News®
Beer Paper is excited to share with our readers that Brandon Hernández, one of our favorite beer writers on the planet and the leading voice, champion of the critically acclaimed San Diego beer scene has created an all-things-San Diego-beer website, San Diego Beer News.
Hernández and Beer Paper’s Daniel Drennon have been colleagues, contemporaries and have shared a friendship and mutual respect since each began covering their respective beer scenes well over a decade ago. Drennon was thrilled when Hernández reached out to offer an alliance in which Beer Paper will provide north of San Diego coverage for San Diego Beer News and, similarly, San Diego Beer News will be the de facto San Diego correspondent for Beer Paper.
Courtesy of SD Beer News
“It is the proverbial win, win scenario. We have had tremendous respect for Brandon over the years. His relentless honesty and integrity covering San Diego’s breweries and beers won us over early and remains the foundation of the mutual respect we share. We are super stoked to be able to share his unparalleled knowledge of everything San Diego beer with our readers and aspire to do the same about the Los Angeles, Orange County, Inland Empire and Ventura County for his readers.”
Beer Paper will run a monthly San Diego feature from our sister publication San Diego Beer News in our newspaper and on our website. Beer Paper’s hard copy edition is currently on hiatus until such time that brewery tap rooms are back open to capacity with beer fans and readers.
Cheers! Stay safe. Stay strong!
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Press Contact: Brandon Hernández
Founder & Executive Editor, San Diego Beer News®
Phone: (858) 945-3462
Email: brandon@sandiegobeer.news
New San Diego Beer News® website is on tap online!
Most extensive, comprehensive online resource for key information on San Diego’s world-famous brewing scene debuts to help struggling businesses during COVID-19 pandemic and beyond
SAN DIEGO, CA (August 10, 2020)—Last week marked the launch of the SAN DIEGO BEER NEWS® website (www.sandiegobeer.news), a one-stop resource for all things #SDBeer. Packed with news on San Diego’s 150-plus breweries, openings, closings, work-in-progress projects, and what’s happening and tapping around the county, it’s the most extensive resource that’s ever existed for information on the region’s renowned beer scene. And it arrives when local brewing companies need it most as they struggle to survive during the pandemic.
“With our world-class breweries facing so many challenges due to COVID-19, I was motivated to pull the trigger on my longtime ambition to create a modern, comprehensive platform for telling their stories and helping people further discover and patronize the businesses making up San Diego’s vibrant beer scene,” says founder Brandon Hernández, a native San Diegan who has covered the county’s brewing industry for local and national magazines, newspapers and online outlets for 13 years (full bio provided below).
Designed by local film and multimedia firm Paradeigm, the San Diego Beer News® website features:
- Articles on local beer-industry news, beers, events and industry happenings
- Guest columns from industry insiders sharing opinions on subjects that matter to them
- A constantly updated map listing every San Diego brewery-owned venue in the county
- Up-to-date COVID-related information for the county’s breweries and tasting rooms
- Beer-and-food pairing articles and recipes for dishes and beers from local chefs and brewers
- Job listings from San Diego County breweries (coming soon)
- Dedicated platforms for partners, including:
- 91X FM’s Beer for Breakfast video series
- ALT 949 FM’s Rock & Roll Happy Hour broadcasts
- The Indie Beer Show podcast series
- California Craft Brewers Association, local breweries’ representatives in Sacramento
- Pink Boots Society, a women’s advocacy industry non-profit organization
- Mujeres Brew Club, a Latina women’s education group
- QUAFF, San Diego’s largest, most award-winning homebrew club
- Beer Paper, a trusted publication serving L.A., Orange, Riverside and the Central Coast
Each week, San Diego Beer News® delivers a This Week in #SDBeer email newsletter to subscribers listing beers being released at breweries around the county, as well as events (post-pandemic) and other features such as a Beer of the Week and beer selections from local bottle shop chain, Bottlecraft, providing a valuable informational resource that has never existed in San Diego County.
To further assist the local brewing industry during these tough times (and beyond), a percent of annual profits earned through the website will be donated to the San Diego Brewers Guild, the volunteer-driven organization serving and composed of staff from local brewing companies.
“People are under the impression there is little or nothing going on in the brewing industry during the pandemic, but one look at the site will disprove that,” says Hernández, who also worked in the local industry for seven years and wrote two guides to the county’s breweries. “There has never been a greater need to give San Diego breweries a helping hand an spotlight their high-quality beers, hard work, and indomitable spirit, It’s an honor to do the best job I can for them while also giving people like me—fans of amazing San Diego beer—the type of reliable resource we’ve been thirsting for.”
The San Diego Beer News® website URL is: http://sandiegobeer.news. Fan can sign up for the weekly email newsletter there, and follow San Diego Beer News® on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Those looking to support the site can sign up to do so and get news first at: http://patreon.com/sandiegobeernews.
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ABOUT BRANDON HERNÁNDEZ: A native San Diegan, Brandon Hernández is an award-winning journalist who has covered his hometown’s brewing industry for 13 years and authored two editions of the San Diego Beer News® Complete Guide to San Diego Breweries. He was the first-ever beer columnist for San Diego Magazine and San Diego Reader, and served as Senior Editor for beverage publication West Coaster for nearly a decade. He has served as a craft-beer correspondent for FOX 5 San Diego and The CW San Diego, consulted for Food Network, Zagat and numerous San Diego County breweries, ghost-written and contributed to numerous cookbook projects, and been featured on numerous TV shows, radio programs and podcasts. He and his work have been featured in dozens of publications, including USA Today, Wine Enthusiast, Los Angeles Times, San Diego Union-Tribune, All About Beer Magazine, Beer Magazine, The Beer Connoisseur Magazine, Beer Paper, Celebrator Beer News, Craft Beer & Brewing Magazine, Imbibe Magazine, The New Brewer Magazine, The Full Pint, Edible San Diego Magazine, Modern Luxury, Pacific San Diego Magazine, Ranch & Coast Magazine, Tasting Table and many more. He worked within the brewing industry in marketing roles with Stone Brewing, AleSmith Brewing and Societe Brewing, and is the founder of Beer to the Rescue, a charity campaign that has raised more than $150,000 for the Lupus Foundation of Southern California since 2015. For more information, consult Brandon Hernández’s writing website.
