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: Sandlot
Many people get into homebrewing because the beers they want to drink aren’t available at bars or on store shelves. That was the case for Aaron Justus, a co-founding brewer at East…
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Homebrew Summer: Thai Tea Haze
From 2023 to 2025, Derek Gallanosa and Cyrus Baluyot (pictured above) worked at North Park’s GOAL. Brewing. The former was head brewer and the latter was behind the bar, but their friendship…
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Homebrew Summer: Pils
Judd McGhee has more than just a little experience working with amateur brewers (not to mention complete newcomers to the art of fermentation) to create special beers. As the owner and Head…
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Taking a pro approach to GABF Pro-Am Competition
There are no bigger bragging rights than those earned at the Great American Beer Festival (GABF). Held each year in Denver, Colorado, it is not only the largest annual craft beer event…
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Homebrew Summer: CA Dreamin’
Most beer styles that are named after places reference European locales. Munich helles, Dortmunder export, Baltic porter. Few bear the names of American territories, which makes the “steam beer” or “California common”…
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Homebrew Summer: Coconut Hazy
While many of the local brewing companies participating in our Homebrew Summer program are teamed with their homebrew partners after blindly selecting their recipes from a bank of submissions, some pros choose…
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Homebrew Summer: Time Moving Slow
Not only does iconic Morena homebrew-supply outlet and nanobrewery Home Brew Mart help us out each year with our Homebrew Summer by transcribing every recipe into easy-to-use all-grain and extract templates for…
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Homebrew Summer: Monk’s Delight
One of the opportunities provided to local brewing companies care of our annual Homebrew Summer program is the chance to brew the types of beers that aren’t on their everyday menus. Take,…
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Homebrew Summer: Pair O’ Docs
Each year, fans of Night Parade Brewing rejoice over the Scripps Ranch brewery’s annual release of its fruited double IPA. That grapefruit- and orange-infused double IPA goes by the name Pair O’…
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Homebrew Summer: Helles Bells
Though he’s worked at a high level within the brewing industry for over a dozen years, Peter Perrecone still fondly remembers what it was like to be a homebrewer. As such, he…
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