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: Hammerhead
Like so many brewery owners, Sunny Grove Brewing‘s Scott Christian took the leap from fervent, accomplished homebrewer to opening his own commercial concern. When doing so, he brought along some recipes from…
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Homebrew Summer: Clever Kiwi
With this post, the 2026 edition of Homebrew Summer is official on! An occasion like that calls for a special beer; something critically acclaimed by both beer-drinkers and beer judges. And we’ve…
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Announcing this year’s Homebrew Summer brewers
Over the past five years, local breweries have generously participated in San Diego Beer News’ Homebrew Summer program. They’ve done so by allowing our outlet to publish homebrew-scaled recipes for some of…
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San Diegan named Homebrewer of the Year
On Saturday, the American Homebrewers Association announced winners from the 48th edition of the largest and most prestigious amateur brewing competition in the world. Held in Asheville, North Carolina, the National Homebrew…
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Homebrew Summer: Ryeders of Rohan
We still have about a month of spring left before the sunny season officially arrives, but thanks to BattleMage Brewing, Homebrew Summer is already here! On Friday, May 29, that Vista bastion…
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QUAFF dominates local homebrewing contest
Held on an annual basis since 1994, the America’s Finest City Homebrew Competition (AFC) is coordinated thanks to effort and elbow grease from the members of local homebrewing club QUAFF. Not surprisingly,…
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Join in the fun of Homebrew Summer 2026
In 2021, San Diego Beer News teamed with local breweries and homebrewers to launch a one-of-a-kind program developed to keep the ties between the county’s pro and recreational brewing communities strong. Over…
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A local homebrew event like no other
Over the past decade-and-a-half, I have homebrewed solo and with friends, and had the privilege of collaborating on beers brewed for charity (and fun) with career fermentationists. As a journalist, I’ve covered…
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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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