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: 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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Homebrew Summer: Weser
Since opening in San Marcos last year, Michi Brew Co. has done a great job of endearing itself to locals, to the point where the young company is having trouble brewing enough…
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Homebrew Summer: Uncommon CA Common
Each year, when we present professional brewers with beer recipes submitted by local amateurs as part of our Homebrew Summer program, we do so without attribution. A blind selection process allows brewers…
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Homebrew Summer: Farmer Greg’s Witbier
When the ingredients for a beer are grown on a brewery’s home turf, the resultant ale or lager can feel “homebrew” in nature. After all, many are the recreational fermentationists who incorporate…
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Homebrew Summer: Flight to Cancun
As a major brewing company that was born in the backroom of a local homebrew-supply store, it’s fitting that Ballast Point Brewing is once again taking part in our annual Homebrew Summer…
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Homebrew Summer: Scottish Fold
When looking for a brewing partner for this year’s edition of Homebrew Summer, Daniel Guy didn’t even have to leave his brewery. The individual he selected, Damon Adamo, has been a regular…
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