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: Violet
Each year, me and my friend and fellow Leo, Tom Nickel (pictured above, at right), use the fact our birthdays fall on consecutive days in August as an excuse to convene at…
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Homebrew Summer: Ascent
This is far from the first run around the block for Mother Earth Brew Co. where our Homebrew Summer program is concerned. There have been years when they contributed multiple homebrew-scaled recipes…
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Homebrew Summer: Turnstable
Yes, summer officially ended on September 22, but we’re happy to say that our annual Homebrew Summer program is still going strong thanks to the generosity of time, energy and spirit displayed…
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Homebrew Summer: Portrait of Van Gogh
Ih the spring, when local breweries were choosing homebrew partners to pair up with as part of our Homebrew Summer program, Chris van Hamersveld was selected by a North County brewery. Unfortunately,…
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Homebrew Summer: A Californian in King Arthur’s Porter
Earlier this year, local brewer Josh Avina started working at Breakwater Brewing, crafting ales and lagers from its shared space at Vista’s CoLab Public House. Since then, he’s been enjoying the process…
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Homebrew Summer: Gavroche
Homebrewing is more than a pastime. In some cases, it’s a necessity. Before the modern craft-beer movement, many styles of beer were largely unavailable in the U.S., requiring stateside amateurs to brew…
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Homebrew Summer: Rye Tai
While many of the pro-am pairings from our five-years strong Homebrew Summer program match brewers who have never met one another, there are plenty of cases where longtime friends come together to…
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Homebrew Summer: The Kölsch
They say lightning never strikes the same place twice, but this is the second year that Lightning Brewery owner and Brewmaster Jim Crute (pictured above, at left) has taken local homebrewers under…
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Homebrew Summer: Chata F*** Up
No local business has brought more amateur brewers and civilians’ beery dreams to life over the past decade than Citizen Brewers. A Grantville hideaway that works with clients to brew up and…
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Homebrew Summer: Rowley’s Last Rye’d
There are some constants in life. Death will come for all of us. So, too, will the IRS. And when our Homebrew Summer program puts out its annual call for beer recipes,…
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