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: Chilly Nelson
In addition to a roster of fun pro-am beers being tapped at San Diego County breweries, our Homebrew Summer will include the sharing of recipes for popular beers from local brewing companies,…
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Medals and mead mastery at NHC
This weekend marked the close of the 47th edition of the National Homebrew Competition (NHC). The most prestigious event of its kind for amateur producers of beer, cider and mead, it is…
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Homebrew Summer: Banana Wars
In publishing our very first pro-am beer recipe of this year’s Homebrew Summer program, we’re taking the opportunity to clear up a common misconception about this annual initiative. With competitions so prevalent…
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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 breweries to…
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Be part of Homebrew Summer 2025!
It was 2021 when San Diego Beer News launched its Homebrew Summer program as an initiative built to help maintain and advance the all-important connection between the county’s professional and amateur brewers. Over the…
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Homebrew supply venture starting out online
If there’s one thing homebrewers love to do – other than brew, of course – it’s talk about beer and the process of making it. This extends to owners and staffers of…
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QUAFF is “America’s Finest” homebrew club
There have been so many different brewing competitions going on of late that it’s getting tough to cover them all. To be fair, that’s always the case with the America’s Finest City…
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QUAFF named Homebrew Club of the Year
Yesterday marked the start of the three-day free-for-all that is the Great American Beer Festival. Held annually at Denver’s Colorado Convention Center, it draws droves of ale-and-lager fans looking to down as…
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Homebrew Summer: Skyline
When Aaron Justus and Brandon Green traded in high-level brewing positions at Ballast Point Brewing to build their own little piece of craft-beer heaven in the East Village, they did so, in…
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Homebrew Summer: Kölsch of the Titans
The science of fermentation is rich, nuanced and traces back to an item of paramount significance: yeast. For nearly 30 years years, local brewers have benefited from having one of the world’s…
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