HOMEBREWING
June 23, 2025
2025 Homebrew Summer participants
In 2021, San Diego Beer News launched an initiative designed to further strengthen the historic link between the county’s professional and recreational brewers. Dubbed Homebrew Summer, the program allowed commercial…
HOMEBREWING
June 18, 2025
The state of San Diego’s in-person homebrew supply scene
It wasn’t all that long ago it seemed local homebrew stores were going the way of the dodo. A number of longtime supply outlets like North Park’s The Homebrewer and…
CRAFT Q&A
June 17, 2025
What’s in store for Ramona’s lone brewery
After winning well over a hundred awards for their homebrewed ales and lagers, Mike Nelson and Natallie Phillips decided to go pro. In doing so, they secured a spot off…
BEER NEWS
June 10, 2025
Why out-of-town breweries are coming to San Diego
May 11 marked the last day of business for Half Door Brewing, a 10-year-old brewpub run by the family behind downtown’s venerable Irish pub, The Field. Installed in a charming…
BEER NEWS
June 6, 2025
Barrel & Stave moving out of CoLab Public House
In July 2022, a new beverage collective debuted off State Route 78 in Vista. Dubbed CoLab Public House, it brought four beverage-makers and a restaurant together under one roof in…
