10 Most Popular Beers and Venues in San Diego, CA

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Post by Grace Lee-Weitz
September 30, 2022
10 Most Popular Beers and Venues in San Diego, CA

With over 9 million registered users, Untappd can easily tap into the trends and insights of drinkers in your city, state, region, and beyond.

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Get a sneak peek into what Untappd’s Analytics can show you as we take a look at the checked-in beers in San Diego, CA, over the last ninety days.

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Photography courtesy of Ballast Point Brewing Company

San Diego Cracks the Top Five Most Checked-In Cities on Untappd in 2021

Untappd Insights screenshot showing San Diego check-ins

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In October 2021, Untappd hosted its first in-person craft beer festival in over two years in San Diego, CA. The homebrewing capital of the country and craft beer destination was the perfect place to drink beers together again in real life. So it's fitting that San Diego kicked off the app’s top five cities with 237k venue check-ins in 2021.

According to the San Diego Brewers Guild, this Southern California city is home to over 150 craft breweries.

As the birthplace of behemoths such as Stone Brewing and Karl Strauss and smaller phenoms such as Burgeon Beer Company, Pure Project, Societe Brewing Company, plus so many more, San Diego continues to be one of the most famed beer cities in the entire country.

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The 10 Most Popular Beers in San Diego, CA - Last 90 Days

Following current trends in American craft beer, the beers that have dominated the San Diego market for the last ninety days pretty much all fall under the IPA umbrella (with the one exception of Stone’s Buenaveza Mexican lager). Five of the top ten most checked-in beers are hazies while the rest landed in either the American IPA or double/imperial IPA categories.

A side-by-side photo of beers from Harland Brewing Company (left) and Pure Project Brewing (right)
Photography courtesy of Harland Brewing Company (left) and Pure Project Brewing (right)

Take a look:

  1. Hazy IPA (NEIPA) - Harland Brewing Company
  2. Pliny the Elder (DIPA) - Russian River Brewing Company
  3. Formless Reflections (NEIPA) - Pure Project Brewing
  4. Buenaveza Salt & Lime Lager (Mexican Lager) - Stone Brewing
  5. Stone Delicious IPA (American IPA) - Stone Brewing
  6. Sea to Slope (DNEIPA) - Pure Project Brewing
  7. Sculpin (American IPA) - Ballast Point Brewing Company
  8. Mystery Veils the Desert (NEIPA) - Pure Project Brewing
  9. Aloha Sculpin (American IPA) - Ballast Point Brewing Company
  10. Weekend Vibes (American IPA) - Coronado Brewing Company

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The 10 Most Checked-In Venues in San Diego, CA - Last 90 Days

  1. North Park Beer Co. (4,456 check-ins)
  2. Stone Brewing World Bistro & Gardens Liberty Station (2,247 check-ins)
  3. Stone Brewing World Bistro & Gardens (2,223 check-ins)
  4. Ballast Point Tasting Room & Kitchen - Little Italy (1,982 check-ins)
  5. Modern Times Lomaland Fermentorium (1,965 check-ins)
  6. Mikkeller Brewing San Diego (1,514 check-ins)
  7. Pure Project Brewing (1,372 check-ins)
  8. Pure Project Brewing - Balboa Park (1,264 check-ins)
  9. Pure Project North Park Tap Room (1,230 check-ins)
  10. Half Door Brewing Company (1,122 check-ins)
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Grace Lee-Weitz
Post by Grace Lee-Weitz
September 30, 2022
Grace is the Managing Editor for Hop Culture and Untappd. She also organizes and produces the largest weeklong women in craft beer festival in the country, Beers With(out) Beards and the first-ever festival celebrating the colorful, vibrant voices in the queer community in craft beer, Queer Beer. An avid craft beer nerd Grace always found a way to work with beer. After graduating with a journalism degree from Northwestern University, she attended culinary school before working in restaurant management. She moonlighted as a brand ambassador at 3 Sheeps Brewing Co on the weekends before moving into the beer industry full time as an account coordinator at 5 Rabbit Cerveceria. Grace holds her Masters degree in the Food Studies program at NYU.
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