San Diego Beer Week is the longest, two-weekend-spanning mother of all beer weeks that includes more than 600 events, with 20,000 visitors expected. It starts on Friday, November 7.
To best tell the San Diego craft beer week story, I tracked down Karl Strauss Brewing Company’s Cofounder Chris Cramer. Not only is he responsible for helping start one of San Diego’s oldest and most successful craft breweries, he’s also to thank for initiating what’s now one of the country’s most-visited beer weeks.
“Sometimes you make plans and goals and they don’t work out, and other times things come together beautifully and people come to support it,” says Cramer. “That’s really the case with this beer week and how it has grown over the past few years.”