{"id":14405,"date":"2016-07-25T12:29:15","date_gmt":"2016-07-25T19:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/?p=14405"},"modified":"2016-07-25T12:35:05","modified_gmt":"2016-07-25T19:35:05","slug":"a-departure-from-ballast-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/2016\/07\/25\/a-departure-from-ballast-point\/","title":{"rendered":"A Departure from Ballast Point"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_14407\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14407\" style=\"width: 165px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/13619920_10207035173903343_6803087836018919313_n.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-14407\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/13619920_10207035173903343_6803087836018919313_n.jpg?resize=165%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Kight (right) w\/ Zach Borba: &quot;The final Longfin from my man Zach Borba...all good things must come to end...my last day at Ballast Point...on to the next project (s)....&quot;\" width=\"165\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/13619920_10207035173903343_6803087836018919313_n.jpg?resize=165%2C300&amp;ssl=1 165w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/13619920_10207035173903343_6803087836018919313_n.jpg?w=528&amp;ssl=1 528w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 165px) 100vw, 165px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14407\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kight (right) w\/ Zach Borba: &#8220;The final Longfin from my man Zach Borba&#8230;all good things must come to end&#8230;my last day at Ballast Point&#8230;on to the next project (s)&#8230;.&#8221;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ballastpoint.com\/\">Ballast Point Brewing &amp; Spirits\u2019<\/a> Chief Commercial Officer Earl Kight posted online that today is\u00a0his last day with\u00a0the company.<\/p>\n<p>Kight joined Ballast Point as a consultant in 2008 and became the company\u2019s Vice President of Sales and Marketing in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>In that year, Ballast Point broke into the Brewers Association\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brewersassociation.org\/press-releases\/brewers-association-releases-top-50-breweries-of-2012\/\">Top 50 craft breweries by sales volume<\/a>\u00a0at #46. In\u00a0the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brewersassociation.org\/press-releases\/brewers-association-lists-top-50-breweries-2015\/\">2015 rankings<\/a>, the brewery stood at #11.<\/p>\n<p>The San Diego company was acquired by Constellation Brands in November 2015 for $1 billion.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesman for Ballast Point would not comment on this story, and Kight could not be immediately reached.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ballast Point Brewing &amp; Spirits\u2019 Chief Commercial Officer Earl Kight posted online that today is\u00a0his last day with\u00a0the company. Kight joined Ballast Point as a consultant in 2008 and became the company\u2019s Vice President of Sales and Marketing in 2012. In that year, Ballast Point broke into the Brewers Association\u2019s Top 50 craft breweries by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-14405","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-san-diego-beer-beverage-news","7":"entry","8":"has-post-thumbnail"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","wps_subtitle":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdtr4y-3Kl","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14405","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}