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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Release & Recipe: Kuiki
“Captain” Eli Palma is no stranger to Homebrew Summer. At least one of his homebrew recipes has been selected in each of the past three years since we launched the program. The…
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Release & Recipe: PCT
Mission Brewery has quite a legacy in San Diego County. So, too, does the American pale ale. Early on in our nation’s craft-beer revolution, New World-hopped iterations of this U.K. beer style…
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Release & Recipe: School of Flocc
After two decades of amateur brewing, local homebrewer Jason Clark recently had the chance to produce one of his homespun beers on a commercial level. That opportunity was granted by the team…
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Release & Recipe: Belgian Smoked Ale
Deft Brewing is known for regularly treading in stylistic territory that’s less explored by the majority of local breweries. That Morena operation brews all manner of Old World beers, including a variety…
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Release & Recipe: Crimson Seas
You may be asking yourself, didn’t I already see a Homebrew Summer beer-release and recipe from Jacked Up Brewery just a few weeks ago? Don’t worry. You’re not losing it. We did…
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Release & Recipe: RIPA
One of the reasons we developed our annual Homebrew Summer program was so amateur brewers could be teamed with pro brewers and have a one-of-a-kind learning experience through the act of brewing.…
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Release & Recipe: Scotty’s Struggle
Local homebrewer Jim Connor has submitted his recipes for consideration by professional brewing companies as part of our Homebrew Summer program each of the past three years. And each of the past…
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Release & Recipe: Pulpasaur
Homebrew Summer launched in the sunny season of 2021. One of the pro-am beers from that inaugural program came from a pair of brewers with the same name, homebrewer Ben Cusey (pictured…
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Release & Recipe: Nectranomicon
When we launched our annual Homebrew Summer program back in 2021, one of the most eager local breweries to sign up was BattleMage Brewing. The pair of homebrewers who founded that Vista…
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Release & Recipe: Spruce Willis
The goal of San Diego Beer News‘ Homebrew Summer program is to bring San Diego’s commercial brewers together with members of the local homebrewing community. Thanks to the generosity of the pros,…
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