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Brewery Rowe: Fox Point Brewing growing its own organic ingredients

Farmhouse-style ales? Oodles of San Diego County breweries make them. But beers made in a farmhouse? Fox Point Brewing, a year-old venture in Encinitas, stands alone. Plopped within an “agrihood” of ...
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Brewery Rowe: Beer columnist is sweet on sours

As I learned with my first sip, beer is an acquired taste. But even among those who’ve acquired a passion for lagers, stouts, pale ales and IPAs, there’s an oddball member of the beer family that can ...
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Brewery Rowe: Why Deft Brewing is sitting out this year’s Great American Beer Fest

San Diego’s Deft Brewing has regularly entered the Great American Beer Festival, winning a silver medal in 2021 with its Belgian table beer, Austere Abbot. But Deft won’t enjoy a repeat triumph when ...
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Brewery Rowe: Raise a glass to New England’s beers and baseball

Re: craft beer, East is East and West is best? Maybe not. My West Coast chauvinism crumbled during a recent tour of New England beer and baseball. San Diego’s David Jay led a six-person party on an ...
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Brewery Rowe: Looking back on 30 years of beer-writing

Decades ago, I jotted down a comment by Greg Koch, co-founder of Stone Brewing. The exact quote is buried in a mountain of notebooks, but I recall he spoke of the “beer journey,” the long excursion ...