From the Beer Writer: Last October, when wildfires raged throughout Northern California, Santa Rosa-based Russian River Brewing partnered with King Ridge Foundation to create a way for breweries to … [Read more...] about Beer of the Week: Made in San Diego
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Ballast Point moving Scripps Ranch production, employees to Miramar
Yesterday, Ballast Point Brewing president Marty Birkel informed employees at the company’s Scripps Ranch brewery and tasting room that beer-production would soon cease. The brewing company—San Diego … [Read more...] about Ballast Point moving Scripps Ranch production, employees to Miramar
San Diego winners from 2017’s Great American Beer Festival
Winners from the 2017 edition of the Great American Beer Festival were announced earlier this morning. Held annually by brewing-industry trade organization, the Brewers Association, in Denver, … [Read more...] about San Diego winners from 2017’s Great American Beer Festival
Ballast Point holding Family Reunion brews
Before Ballast Point Brewing was a company capable of commanding decuple figures, before it grew into San Diego County’s largest brewery and one of the biggest beer-producers in the country, before … [Read more...] about Ballast Point holding Family Reunion brews
Battlemage Brewing set to open in Vista
You can scarcely throw a 100-sided die in Vista without hitting a brewery, and come the weekend of May 6, two guys used to utilizing that role-playing game tool will debut the latest entrant into that … [Read more...] about Battlemage Brewing set to open in Vista
Meet Wiseguy Brewing Company
Brett Gent lived in Linda Vista and passed vaunted recreational supply-store, Home Brew Mart, almost daily. On one such day, he finally turned his steering wheel, pulled into the driveway, entered the … [Read more...] about Meet Wiseguy Brewing Company
Littles going big bear route with Bear Roots Brewing
When we first met Terry and Page Little, they were installing a nano-brewery into their business, Vista's Home Brew Supply. They weren’t the first to do so (ever heard of a wee operation called Home … [Read more...] about Littles going big bear route with Bear Roots Brewing
Behind the Scenes at Top Chef San Diego beer episode
I’m pretty good at maintaining confidence, but I hate keeping secrets. So it pleases me that I can finally share what, up until now, I have been contractually obligated to keep under wraps for over … [Read more...] about Behind the Scenes at Top Chef San Diego beer episode
2015 Recap: Beer’s Future?
There is never a shortage of news in the San Diego beer industry, especially with so many businesses opening. Keeping up with newcomers is a job all its own, but there was more than the normal thrush … [Read more...] about 2015 Recap: Beer’s Future?
Meet Bear Roots Brewing Company
Though one of San Diego County’s biggest brewing successes, Ballast Point Brewing & Spirits, started out as an ale-and-lager outfit based in the back room of a home brew store back in 1996, that … [Read more...] about Meet Bear Roots Brewing Company