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In announcing closing, OC business owners foretell of future in San Diego
Yesterday, husband-and-wife team Brandon Fender and Robyn Spevacek announced they will be closing their six-year-old Santa Ana craft brewery, The Good Beer Co. It was sad news for Orange County fans, … [Read more...] about The Good Beer Co. founders set sights on Julian
Miramar THC beer op expands to offer CBD-infused, non-alcoholic brews
It was three years ago when Marty Reed, Lyden Henderson, Greg Haap, and Charlie Reed came together to create THC-infused, non-alcoholic craft beverages under the brand name High Style Brewing. Those … [Read more...] about High Style rebrands to Outbound Brewing
Oceanside brewery secures space in San Diego’s “it” craft community
Last week, Black Plague Brewing signed a lease on a tasting room spot that will give the Oceanside-based company a presence in one of the most high-profile neighborhoods in San Diego—North Park. … [Read more...] about Black Plague spreading to North Park
Vista brewery’s satellite tasting room to officially open on January 25
Around the start of the New Year, Booze Brothers Brewing soft-opened its tasting room in Oceanside. It’s the first satellite venture for the six-year-old Vista-based brewing company. Located at 606 … [Read more...] about Booze Brothers’ Oceanside grand opening
The Lost Abbey building new brand and tasting room in a downtown church
The Lost Abbey is more than a name to one of its co-founders. Even before the San Marcos-based brewing company’s 2006 debut, director of brewery operations Tomme Arthur foresaw a time when its … [Read more...] about Tiny Bubbles in Church
Amplified Ale Works has secured space for HQ, brewery and tasting room
In 2015, Amplified Ale Works became the first established business to lease space in developer H.G. Fenton’s Brewery Igniter rent-to-brew industrial suites in Miramar. While those facilities were … [Read more...] about Amplifying Lemon Grove’s brewing landscape
North County brewery adds spontaneously fermented beers to product line
While Belching Beaver Brewery is largely known for everyday styles and its fan-favorite Peanut Butter Milk Stout, the North County business sports an extensive barrel-aging program. Headed by barrel … [Read more...] about Belching Beaver’s cool(ship) runnings
What can be gleaned from this year’s #SDBeer debuts and farewells?
I have been closely covering the San Diego beer beat for more than a dozen years. Over that span, the industry has gone through many ups and, in more recent years, its fair share of downs. Through it … [Read more...] about 2019: An open and shut case
North Park-based interest expanding to popular downtown tourist area
In 2017, a commercial-property broker saw promise in building a biergarten at downtown’s popular Seaport Village retail establishment. The plan was to have a half-dozen or so local breweries share … [Read more...] about Mike Hess Brewing to build at Seaport Village
Tribe-owned Valley Center operation to open to the public on January 30
In September, we reported that Valley Center’s SR76 Beerworks had undergone a full-scale rebrand that included a new name, Rincon Reservation Road Brewery. That interest, which is owned and operated … [Read more...] about Rincon Reservation Road Brewery set to debut
