Dispatch From the Front 02/15/11
Lightning Turns On the Power Lightning Brewery just turned on their new cold room. Related news, the delicious and very European Lightning Thunderweizen is now available in 22oz bombers. We love the...
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Marching On
It seems as though every week is Beer Week in San Diego. Here’s a short rundown of some of the great events in San Diego Beer we caught this past weekend. For upcoming events, click over to our online...
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Dispatch from the Front 03/08/11
Missing in March While we included a great number of women in our most recent issue, we realize that it’s incomplete. If we left you out, it’s not a character judgement – we just ran out of space....
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Into the Brew: Bocking the Trend
This column appears on page 16 of the March 2012 issue. BOCKING THE TREND — The historic, springtime Bavarian lager styles can be found in San Diego Enjoying a few beers at Andechs As spring...
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Event Preview: Beer & Food Fest @ Stone Brewing World Bistro & Gardens —...
The Craft Brewers Conference is in town this week, and even though it’s not open to the public, there are plenty of events going on as industry professionals from near and far celebrate the world’s...
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Craft Beer Block @ the North Park Festival of Arts this Sunday
We’re stoked to once again be a part of the Craft Beer Block located within this year’s North Park Festival of Arts. A festival within a festival, the Craft Beer Block made its debut last year to the...
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SD Brewers Win 23 Medals at 2012 LA Int’l Commercial Beer Comp.
Results for the 2012 Los Angeles International Commercial Beer Competition were posted yesterday, with San Diegan brewers taking home 23 medals — six gold, ten silver and seven bronze — plus one...
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SoCal Business of Beer Symposium: Tuesday, March 12
Formed by Lightning Brewery’s Jim Crute, Drown Consulting’s Dan Drown and RSR Law Group’s Bill Reavey, the upcoming Southern California Business of Beer (SoCal BOB) Symposium at White Labs in Miramar...
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The Friday Five: 5Q w/ Jim Crute
Jim Crute is the President and Head Brewer of Lightning Brewery in Poway, as well as one of the founders of the upcoming SoCal Business of Beer Symposium being held next Tuesday, March 12 at White...
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Exporting the Craft
via Antenna America’s Facebook page (Japan) Shawn DeWitt now knows what it feels like to be a rock star. On a recent trip to Japan, the co-founder and director of brewery operations for Coronado...
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Beer of the Week: Lightning Dark Current Ale
Lightning Red Current Ale, a black saison brewed with currants and citrus for Beer to the Rescue From the Beer Writer: Before I was a beer writer, I merely drank beer. It was fun, tasty and something I...
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Best Beer Futures: West
This is the third part of a four-article series exploring some of the more interesting and highly anticipated brewery projects throughout San Diego. Today’s post covers the county’s westerly expanses,...
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SD shows up at LA International Beer Competition
Council Brewing Company’s winning entries from the Los Angeles International Beer Competition After the opening series at Petco Park, wherein this native San Diegan’s beloved Friars failed to score a...
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October Events Sampler Flight
There’s no shortage of fermentable fun to be had during the month bridging Oktoberfest and All Hallow’s Eve, and we’ve culled through the plethora of beery affairs to highlight a few standouts. But...
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Poway’s Lightning Brewery up for sale
In 2006, when Jim Crute transitioned from a long career as a biochemist to become a brewery owner, the landscape in San Diego County was very different. For one thing, the story of a starry-eyed...
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On-The-Tracks closes, Stumblefoot Brewing sells
Amid a glut of new brewery openings, a beer interest of more than six years quietly shuttered recently. That business is Carlsbad’s On-The-Tracks Brewery. The family-run business had soldiered on...
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Q&A: Jim Crute
Founder, Lightning Brewery Yesterday, news broke that all manufacturing assets of Poway’s Lightning Brewery had been purchased by Santa Ana interest Cismontane Brewing. Lightning owner Jim Crute put...
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Intergalactic Brewing’s uncertain future
When I first met Alex Van Horne he was looking to install a sci-fi-themed brewery in Poway. The plot reminded me of that of Jim Crute, who installed his science-themed Lightning Brewery in Poway a...
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Cismontane opening Knø Beverage House in Escondido
More San Diegans became familiar with Orange County’s Cismontane Brewing earlier this year when it purchased the majority of Poway interest Lightning Brewery’s equipment. Those mechanisms will be...
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