HOMEBREWING
Our annual Homebrew Summer program brings professional brewers and homebrewers together to share info and craft collaborative pro-am beers that are then tapped at brewery tasting rooms across San Diego County during the sunny season. Get the recipes for all of those beers as well as homebrew-scaled versions of popular beers from local breweries here along with other homebrewing-related news items.
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Homebrew Summer: Ryeders of Rohan
Before he was hired as a brewer for vaunted North County operation, The Lost Abbey, Andrew Konopak (pictured above, at left) was infatuated with local beer yet oblivious to how it was…
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Homebrew Summer: Sleeping with the Fishes
We’re only two weeks into the second coming of famed, historic local craft-beer spot, Home Brew Mart, and the eager team there is already getting into the Homebrew Summer action. It’s not…
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Homebrew Summer: Volante
Our annual Homebrew Summer program provides an opportunity for local breweries to reaffirm their connection with the amateur brewing sect, but at Jacked Up Brewery, they interact with homebrewers year-round. The brewery…
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Homebrew Summer: Daywalker
One of the reasons local brewers take part in our Homebrew Summer program is because they fondly remember their days as amateur fermentationists and remember what it was like to spend countless…
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Homebrew Summer: BLAH Brewing
Each year when breweries sign-up to take part in our Homebrew Summer program, they typically team with a single homebrewer to brew up one of their recipes in their professional environs. Every…
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Homebrew Summer: Orderville
In addition to pairing local breweries and homebrewers to produce pro-am beers as part of our 2024 Homebrew Summer program, we’ve rounded up homebrew-scaled recipes for some notable San Diego commercial beers.…
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Homebrew Summer: Derby Day Debauchery
While one of the primary goals of Homebrew Summer is to provide local homebrewers with an educational experience, many of the professional brewers who have participated in the program over the years…
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Homebrew Summer: Mild of Cups
We’re kicking off the 2024 edition of our Homebrew Summer program with a first-time participant, Arcana Brewing. The Carlsbad brewery partnered up with longtime homebrewer and taproom customer, Chris High, to produce…
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This year’s Homebrew Summer participants
As has been a tradition since 2021, San Diego Beer News put out a call to local breweries to participate in our fourth-annual Homebrew Summer program. Nineteen businesses heeded said call, enthusiastically volunteering to brew…
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All-grain ain’t the only way
I recently did a segment for the FOX 5 Morning News featuring homebrew-supply outlets run by local brewing companies. One of them was the spot where many of San Diego’s amateur and…
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