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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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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Homebrew Summer: B.Right.On
Even those of us who appreciate every style of beer, from English mild to Belgian quad, Grodziskie to gueuze, and any type of lager or IPA the brewing world throws at us,…
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Homebrew Summer: Beach Bones
Few local breweries have remained as devoted to keeping strong ties to the homebrewing community as Escondido’s Jacked Up Brewery. That family-run operation has its own homebrew-supply store, regularly holds homebrew competitions…
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Homebrew Summer: Sojourner Sunset
Some breweries are so adventurous in their style selection and experimentation that, despite being commercial enterprises, they seem more like homebrew operations. One such business is Smoking Cannon Brewery. From the moment…
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Homebrew Summer: Enlightenment
It was the worst of times…period. While one would have to have the most potent pair of rose-colored specs in the world to pretend the pandemic wasn’t a confusing, challenging and dismal…
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