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How Craft Beer Built San Diego's Food Scene and What's Brewing Next
#406 On this week's Happy Half Hour, Troy Johnson traces how our beer nerds turned San Diego into a food town—from Karl Strauss in '89 to the Brewers Guild in '97, the 2018 peak of 150+ breweries, and today's saner "new normal." Guests Estela Davila (Guild president), Kevin Hellman (Capital of Craft co-founder), and Brandon Kroegel (Coronado Brewing) preview San Diego Beer Week and its kickoff party, Capital of Craft. The event takes place Saturday, Nov. 8 at San Diego Harley-Davidson with more than 40 breweries participating and special collab pours. We discuss West Coast IPA's DNA, hop tech…
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