In honor of the San Diego Brewers Guild’s milestone anniversary, we take a look at the history of creativity and collaboration in the local beer community
Gina Marsaglia remembers a time before San Diego earned its stripes as one of the most collaborative cities in the craft beer industry.
“Everybody knew that there was a really small pool of drinkers ,” said Arthur, who got his start at Pizza Port in 1997. “I think that’s where the Guild came from. We were like, ‘OK, we now have X amount of operating breweries. We’re all preaching to the same people. Maybe we should try to work together to synergize the actual city as a drinking destination.”" started out almost like a meet-and-greet.
" really wanted to create an opportunity to get fans into tasting rooms instead of pulling them out of tasting rooms and hosting an event for ourselves,” Acers said. “The dollar goes a lot further in the brewing tasting rooms and their physical locations. ... They still need support; they’re still coming back; they’re still fighting to stay alive .”
“Nationally, the numbers are terrible for women — even the owners, much less the brewers — and San Diego is pretty parallel to those numbers ... when you think of a brewery, you think of a bearded White guy,” Downie said. “That’s just the stereotype. And we’re still dealing with stereotypes today.” “Their business plans are community-driven,” Acers said. “They are neighborhood-type breweries — each neighborhood has an identity and those breweries within that neighborhood. They all speak to that.”
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