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: Shark Bait
In addition to providing a mechanism for sharing information, ales and lagers, homebrew clubs serve as the starting point for friendships based on shared interests and respect. Often, members with similar approaches…
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Homebrew Summer: Port of Coffee
One of the greatest things about our Homebrew Summer program is when local beer companies are able to invite regulars from their barstools into their breweries to collaborate on something delicious. The…
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Homebrew Summer: None Shall Pass
Often homebrewing is as much about hanging out as cooking up a beer. After all, the beermaking process is a lengthy one marked by downtime spent waiting for science to do its…
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Homebrew Summer: Hop Water
Bine-borne character and hydration collide in the brewing industry’s latest and most unexpected trend: hop water. A non-alcoholic beverage conveying hop flavors and aromas while quenching one’s thirst, the it-is-what-it-is offering has…
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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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