{"id":15172,"date":"2016-10-18T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-18T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/?p=15172"},"modified":"2016-10-16T11:43:55","modified_gmt":"2016-10-16T18:43:55","slug":"catching-up-with-belching-beaver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/2016\/10\/18\/catching-up-with-belching-beaver\/","title":{"rendered":"Catching up with Belching Beaver"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The facade of Belching Beaver’s new tasting room in Ocean Beach<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Belching Beaver Brewery<\/strong><\/a>\u2019s growth has been some of the fastest and most obvious of any local brewing company. What started as a single, Vista-based brewery operation has come to include (in order of construction) a North Park tasting room, Oceanside production brewery, Vista indoor-outdoor brewpub and, as of last month, a second satellite tasting room in Ocean Beach. It\u2019s a lot of properties to manage. Might there be some sort of potential consolidation in the works\u2026or perhaps even more <\/em>expansion. A recent conversation with Belching Beaver owner Tom Vogel<\/strong> confirms that anything is possible, but nothing has been decided.<\/p>\n

Even with two brewhouses in Vista\u2014a 15-barrel system at the original headquarters plus a 10-barrel system at the brewpub\u2014and 60,000 annual production capacity at its current Oceanside base of operations, Vogel would like to add a small production facility to his empire. This one would be outside San Diego, within Los Angeles\u2019 budding beer-scene. He would also like to see a tasting room or two connecting the dots from SD to LA in Orange County.<\/p>\n

Belching Beaver is currently scouting both LA and the OC for potential sites. Vogel is currently focusing on Tustin and Huntington Beach on the tasting-room front, and sees Culver City as an advantageous spot for a production facility. He actually attempted to sign a lease on a space within that community, but parking issues squashed the deal. Should a brewery be installed in LA, it will be much smaller than Belching Beaver\u2019s others, likely a system coming in at under 5,000 barrels in batch-size.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Belching Beaver Brewery\u2019s growth has been some of the fastest and most obvious of any local brewing company. What started as a single, Vista-based brewery operation has come to include (in order of construction) a North Park tasting room, Oceanside production brewery, Vista indoor-outdoor brewpub and, as of last month, a second satellite tasting room […]<\/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":[1353,376,1007,442,391,3257,3256,2483,3252,1307,15,3253,763,475,3254,1439,2660,3255,44,1637],"class_list":{"0":"post-15172","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-beer","10":"tag-belching-beaver","11":"tag-brandon-hernandez","12":"tag-craftbeer","13":"tag-culver-city","14":"tag-huntington-beach","15":"tag-indiebeer","16":"tag-la","17":"tag-los-angeles","18":"tag-north-park","19":"tag-oc","20":"tag-ocean-beach","21":"tag-oceanside","22":"tag-orange-county","23":"tag-san-diego","24":"tag-tom-vogel","25":"tag-tustin","26":"tag-vista","27":"tag-west-coaster","28":"entry","29":"has-post-thumbnail"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","wps_subtitle":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdtr4y-3WI","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15172","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=15172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}