10 Most Popular Beers and Venues in San Diego, CA

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By: Grace Lee-Weitz
September 30, 2022

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

Untappd’s Analytics discovers beers Untappd drinkers are consuming the most in your area along with what styles are trending and which are taking a turn downwards. And so much more.

Tap into all the data of the world’s largest craft beer social networking platform to help you make business decisions about what beers to make, which to put on tap, or even which to stock on the shelf.

With Untappd for Business, gain insights that you can’t find elsewhere. Make better decisions based on live, local data. Sign up for a free 7-day trial now.

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.

And if San Diego isn’t your city, we also have guides available for the following cities:

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

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

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