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: Daywalker
One of the reasons local brewers take part in our Homebrew Summer program is because they fondly remember their days as amateur fermentationists and remember what it was like to spend countless…
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Homebrew Summer: BLAH Brewing
Each year when breweries sign-up to take part in our Homebrew Summer program, they typically team with a single homebrewer to brew up one of their recipes in their professional environs. Every…
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Homebrew Summer: Orderville
In addition to pairing local breweries and homebrewers to produce pro-am beers as part of our 2024 Homebrew Summer program, we’ve rounded up homebrew-scaled recipes for some notable San Diego commercial beers.…
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Homebrew Summer: Derby Day Debauchery
While one of the primary goals of Homebrew Summer is to provide local homebrewers with an educational experience, many of the professional brewers who have participated in the program over the years…
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Homebrew Summer: Mild of Cups
We’re kicking off the 2024 edition of our Homebrew Summer program with a first-time participant, Arcana Brewing. The Carlsbad brewery partnered up with longtime homebrewer and taproom customer, Chris High, to produce…
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This year’s Homebrew Summer participants
As has been a tradition since 2021, San Diego Beer News put out a call to local breweries to participate in our fourth-annual Homebrew Summer program. Nineteen businesses heeded said call, enthusiastically volunteering to brew…
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All-grain ain’t the only way
I recently did a segment for the FOX 5 Morning News featuring homebrew-supply outlets run by local brewing companies. One of them was the spot where many of San Diego’s amateur and…
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Be a part of Homebrew Summer 2024!
It was 2021 when San Diego Beer News launched its Homebrew Summer program as an initiative built to help maintain and advance the vital, synergistic connection between the county’s professional and amateur brewers. Over…
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QUAFF dominates local homebrewing melee
Last Tuesday night, while the 2024 San Diego Beer News Awards Ceremony was in full swing in Point Loma, winners from another big brewing-related contest were being announced less than three miles…
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Recipe: Surveza
As part of our third-annual Homebrew Summer program, several San Diego County breweries are generously allowing us to share homebrew-scaled versions of recipes for some of their most popular beers with our…
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