HOMEBREWING
San Diego Beer News’ annual Homebrew Summer program brings professional brewers and homebrewers together to share info and craft collaborative pro-am beers that are tapped at local breweries during the sunny season. Get the recipes for all of those beers as well as homebrew-scaled versions of popular beers from local breweries along with other homebrewing-related news items.
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Homebrew Summer: SISO
They say good things are worth waiting for, and we whole-heartedly agree. Especially when it comes to pro-am beers crafted by talented commercial and amateur brewers for our Homebrew Summer program. The…
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Homebrew Summer: Getaway Day
Earlier this year, the crew at Point Loma-based Bay City Brewing took notice of a trend that’s slowly sweeping the nation: extremely low-alcohol IPAs built for all-day, any-day consumption. Wanting to get…
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Homebrew Summer: The Smilinskie
When it comes to style selection, modern craft-brewers face the challenge of balancing adventurousness and marketability. Many would love to make all sorts of ales and lagers, including those of the obscure…
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Homebrew Summer: Green Truck
No other San Diego County brewery produces as many fresh-hop beers as Nickel Beer Co. Headed by former World Beer Cup Brewmaster of the Year Tom Nickel, the Julian operation cranks them…
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Homebrew Summer: Tierra Madre
When Mother Earth Brew Co. opened in Vista in 2010, the then-nanobrewery was equipped not only with scads of taps pouring super-small-batch beer, but also a homebrew supply store. While the company…
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Homebrew Summer: Sandlot
Many people get into homebrewing because the beers they want to drink aren’t available at bars or on store shelves. That was the case for Aaron Justus, a co-founding brewer at East…
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Homebrew Summer: Thai Tea Haze
From 2023 to 2025, Derek Gallanosa and Cyrus Baluyot (pictured above) worked at North Park’s GOAL. Brewing. The former was head brewer and the latter was behind the bar, but their friendship…
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Homebrew Summer: Pils
Judd McGhee has more than just a little experience working with amateur brewers (not to mention complete newcomers to the art of fermentation) to create special beers. As the owner and Head…
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Taking a pro approach to GABF Pro-Am Competition
There are no bigger bragging rights than those earned at the Great American Beer Festival (GABF). Held each year in Denver, Colorado, it is not only the largest annual craft beer event…
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Homebrew Summer: CA Dreamin’
Most beer styles that are named after places reference European locales. Munich helles, Dortmunder export, Baltic porter. Few bear the names of American territories, which makes the “steam beer” or “California common”…
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