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: I’m Not Bitter, You’re Bitter
When sharing the list of San Diego breweries participating in this year’s Homebrew Summer program, Fall Brewing wasn’t on it. But when we heard about their pro-am collaboration with local amateur Jeff…
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Homebrew Summer: Wheels of Confusion
Like so many of his craft-beer industry colleagues, Peter Perrecone was an avid, award-winning homebrewer before going pro. And like so many of his contemporaries, he has maintained his connection with San…
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Homebrew Summer: Paddle Boat
Few, if any, American beers have been as inspirational or played such a significant role in escorting drinkers to the craft-beer subculture as Sierra Nevada Brewing‘s namesake pale ale. Introduced to the…
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Homebrew Summer: X Extra Pale Ale
There are certain local beers that hold a place in the pantheon of all-time trailblazing creations conjured by San Diego County breweries. Venerable Miramar outfit, AleSmith Brewing has several to its credit,…
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Homebrew Summer: Summer Honey Ale
This week, we’re highlighting another Homebrew Summer pro-am collaboration beer involving first-time participants on the professional and amateur sides of the coin. Appropriately enough for a beer-making operation sited on a sustainability-based…
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Homebrew Summer: Beach Buzz
Each year, when throwing up the bat signal to see which local brewers are interested in contributing recipes and expertise to our Homebrew Summer program, there’s one guy we know we can…
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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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