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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Release & Recipe: Pulpasaur
Homebrew Summer launched in the sunny season of 2021. One of the pro-am beers from that inaugural program came from a pair of brewers with the same name, homebrewer Ben Cusey (pictured…
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Release & Recipe: Nectranomicon
When we launched our annual Homebrew Summer program back in 2021, one of the most eager local breweries to sign up was BattleMage Brewing. The pair of homebrewers who founded that Vista…
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Release & Recipe: Spruce Willis
The goal of San Diego Beer News‘ Homebrew Summer program is to bring San Diego’s commercial brewers together with members of the local homebrewing community. Thanks to the generosity of the pros,…
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Release & Recipe: Citra! Fasho?
When it comes to homebrewing, few are the locales, here or anywhere, with as much history and significance as Home Brew Mart. The starting point for Ballast Point Brewing and thousands of…
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Recipe: The Cure
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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Release & Recipe: Crowd Pleaser
The latest pro-am beer release for our third-annual Homebrew Summer program is a pale ale developed by local homebrewer Justin Fix and produced on a professional level at Pacific Beach AleHouse. That…
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Breweries expanding homebrewers’ options
When trusted Escondido homebrewing supply outlet Smokin Beaver Brew Shop closed during the pandemic, Tim McClintic set out on a mission to not only preserve the space but create a business model…
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Release & Recipe: Hippy Hoppy Hazy
The latest pro-am beer release for our third-annual Homebrew Summer program is a hazy IPA, the recipe for which was developed by local homebrewer Buck Schott (yes, that’s his real name) and…
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Recipe: Wild Child
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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Local 2023 NHC Winners
Last Thursday through Saturday, the largest annual amateur-brewing event in the country was held in America’s Finest City. Presented by the American Homebrewers Association, that convention goes by the name Homebrew Con,…
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