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Champion amateurs brew at Melvin Brewing’s East Village brewpub
Homebrewing competitions allow recreational beer-makers to test their abilities against like-minded craftspeople. While such contests can include team awards for homebrew clubs, beer entries typically … [Read more...] about Winning homebrewers select San Diego
A quintet of brews medal at country’s largest homebrewing competition
Each year, recreational fermentationists from across (and beyond) the country get together at Homebrew Con to celebrate and revel in the homebrewing spirit. As part of that three-day convention put on … [Read more...] about Locals win big at National Homebrew Competition
The American Homebrewers Association's annual convention, Homebrew Con, took place in Portland, Oregon, over the weekend. The three-day recreational-fermentation meetup closed with an awards ceremony … [Read more...] about QUAFF wins Homebrew Club of the year…again!
From the Beer Writer: In a time that could have been labeled the "dark ages," beers bolstered by bright, green hops and obsidian malts were everywhere. They were the it beers of the early twenty-teens … [Read more...] about Beer of the Week: El Matador
Construction, permitting and the majority of trial-run services are in the books, and North Park-based Eppig Brewing is ready to open its new Point Loma tasting room to the public. That will … [Read more...] about Eppig Brewing opening Waterfront Biergarten February 9
When Mother Earth Brewing Co. opened a satellite tap room in Vista’s downtown Village area in 2012, it installed a homebrew shop on the corner of Main Street and Indiana Avenue. It was fitting, as … [Read more...] about Mother’s Provisions open for business in Vista
There may be no entrepreneurs better-suited to bring National City its very first local brewing company than the team behind Embarcadero Brewing (340 West 26th Street, Suite D, National City). A … [Read more...] about Embarcadero Brewing wants to be National City’s first brewery
From the Beer Writer: Stone Brewing hosts many top-tier events, but one of my favorite is the company’s American Homebrewers Association-sanctioned AHA Rally and its associated homebrewing … [Read more...] about Beer of the Week: Paul Bischeri & Patrick Martinez / Abnormal / Stone Neapolitan Dynamite
Brewmaster, Gravity Heights He hasn’t brewed a beer on a professional level since 2002, but Skip Virgilio has never strayed far from the San Diego brewing scene he was a major part of in its early … [Read more...] about Craft Q&A: Skip Virgilio
Head Brewer, Kilowatt Brewing Company For the past three years, Kearny Mesa-based Kilowatt Brewing Company has been the little brewery that could. Bolstered by flamboyantly outlandish beers and … [Read more...] about Craft Q&A: Brian Crecely
