{"id":13444,"date":"2016-04-05T08:00:38","date_gmt":"2016-04-05T15:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/?p=13444"},"modified":"2016-04-05T15:35:19","modified_gmt":"2016-04-05T22:35:19","slug":"best-beer-futures-north-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/2016\/04\/05\/best-beer-futures-north-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Beer Futures: North"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Indian Joe Brewing Co. owner Max Moran stands in front of his newly acquired building<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Twice a year, I assess the landscape of in-process brewery-owned projects and pick a few that I feel are the most promising. I\u2019ve been at this for nearly four years at this point, so I thought this time around I\u2019d take a look back on the ponies I bet my money on in previous years and see how they turned out. Today, we\u2019ll start with upcoming businesses in the northern expanses of San Diego County.<\/p>\n

Belching Beaver Tavern & Grill<\/a>, Vista: <\/strong>The name of the company and some of the beers would lead one to expect some sort of dive-bar with greasy fried vittles out of this soon-to-open brewery-equipped restaurant, but after touring the space, this former bank is going to look downright stylish and offer a great deal in the way of food, drink and indoor-outdoor comfort. Read more about why this tops my list of North County projects in the near future on the West Coaster<\/em><\/strong><\/a> site.<\/p>\n

Indian Joe Brewing<\/a>, Vista: <\/strong>The ownership behind this family brewery made a nondescript business park suite look downright beautiful and now they\u2019ll get a chance to work their magic with a large, two-story facility stocked with way more taps, a giant, high-def television, outdoor eating-and-drinking area and a full-time head brewer. That last one wasn\u2019t part of the equation before, so yeah, this figures to be a big next-step for this small business.<\/p>\n

Northern Pine Brewing Company<\/a>, Oceanside: <\/strong>Not a lot is known about this Kickstarter-funded brewery project, except that its owners hail from Idaho and New York, and one of them teamed with Vista\u2019s Mother Earth Brew Co.<\/a><\/strong> to brew a beer paying homage to fallen Marines. But the fact that giving back to the community is one of the few for-sures with this business gives it an anticipatory edge.<\/p>\n

Past Promising Projects: North<\/u><\/p>\n

2013: Bagby Beer Company<\/a><\/strong> (Oceanside; Grade\u2014A; spacious, unique, wide-ranging, outstanding quality), Pizza Port Bressi Ranch<\/a> <\/strong>(Carlsbad; Grade\u2014A; carries on the tradition with two stories and views of production), Prodigy Brewing Company<\/strong><\/a> (San Marcos; Grade\u2014B; still tons of promise, but beer production stunted by business hiccups and move), Plan 9 Alehouse<\/strong> <\/a>(Escondido; Grade\u2014C; great food and guest tap list, but house-beer production woefully sporadic)<\/p>\n

2014: Green Flash Brewing Company Cellar 3<\/a><\/strong> (Poway; Grade\u2014A; nice next chapter with good d\u00e9cor), The Hop Concept<\/strong><\/a> (San Marcos\u2014A; stellar hoppy beers from hoppy beer experts), Second Chance Beer Company<\/strong><\/a> (Carmel Mountain\u2014A; Rock Bottom\u2019s loss is inland North County\u2019s boon)<\/p>\n

2015: Belching Beaver Brewery \u2013 Oceanside<\/a> <\/strong>(Oceanside\u2014Grade B; better system maintaining company\u2019s quality beers); Mason Ale Works<\/a> <\/strong>(Oceanside; Grade\u2014B; early beers promising and place is perpetually packed); North 40<\/strong><\/a> (Carlsbad; Grade\u2014N\/A; farm-to-table, ground-to-glass collective project still getting off the ground)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Twice a year, I assess the landscape of in-process brewery-owned projects and pick a few that I feel are the most promising. I\u2019ve been at this for nearly four years at this point, so I thought this time around I\u2019d take a look back on the ponies I bet my money on in previous years […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[368,1],"tags":[1353,1340,376,1007,2630,442,1596,668,1918,1468,390,1259,2632,1982,1158,2459,2317,1827,1697,2631,475,296,1164,1467,1683,1093,131,1947,323,1546,44,1637],"class_list":{"0":"post-13444","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-beer-news","7":"category-san-diego-beer-beverage-news","8":"tag-sdbeer","9":"tag-bagby-beer","10":"tag-beer","11":"tag-belching-beaver","12":"tag-best-beer-futures","13":"tag-brandon-hernandez","14":"tag-bressi-ranch","15":"tag-carlsbad","16":"tag-carmel-mountain","17":"tag-cellar-3","18":"tag-craft-beer","19":"tag-escondido","20":"tag-green-flash-brewing","21":"tag-hop-concept","22":"tag-indian-joe","23":"tag-indie-beer","24":"tag-mason-ale-works","25":"tag-mother-earth-brew","26":"tag-north-40","27":"tag-northern-pine","28":"tag-oceanside","29":"tag-pizza-port","30":"tag-plan-9-alehouse","31":"tag-poway","32":"tag-prodigy-brewing","33":"tag-rancho-bernardo","34":"tag-san-marcos","35":"tag-second-chance-beer","36":"tag-urge-gastropub","37":"tag-usmc","38":"tag-vista","39":"tag-west-coaster","40":"entry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","wps_subtitle":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdtr4y-3uQ","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}