As I’ve disclosed in the past, I spent most of my formative years growing up in the South Bay. All of them, in fact, if you count Encanto. Before getting my first job in Kearny Mesa and having reason to branch out, I knew nothing of San Diego north of Interstate 8, but I knew Chula Vista, National City, Imperial Beach and Lemon Grove like the back of my hand. Thankfully, there’s now a small but growing influx of breweries and beer bars popping up in the old neighborhoods, billed as a movement with its own spiffy hashtag—#southbayuprising.
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