{"id":16364,"date":"2017-01-31T12:13:46","date_gmt":"2017-01-31T20:13:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/?p=16364"},"modified":"2017-01-31T12:13:46","modified_gmt":"2017-01-31T20:13:46","slug":"groundswell-brewing-sets-opening-date-for-santee-facility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/2017\/01\/31\/groundswell-brewing-sets-opening-date-for-santee-facility\/","title":{"rendered":"Groundswell Brewing sets opening date for Santee facility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/logo_groundswell.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-16369\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/logo_groundswell.jpg?resize=300%2C150&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/logo_groundswell.jpg?resize=300%2C150&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/logo_groundswell.jpg?resize=768%2C384&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/logo_groundswell.jpg?w=1000&amp;ssl=1 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Last year, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.groundswellbrew.com\"><strong>Groundswell Brewing Company<\/strong><\/a> took large, highly visible steps toward increasing the size and scope of its operations by purchasing the 12,000-square-foot brewing and distilling facility vacated by defunct Santee business, <strong>Twisted Manzanita Ales and Spirits<\/strong>. This move came shortly after Groundswell brought on veteran brewer <strong>Callaway Ryan <\/strong>(Surly Brewing, Stone Brewing, URBN St. Brewing) to shore up its fermentation operations. With him on-board, ownership felt comfortable taking this step forward. After months of work transforming its new environs, Groundswell is ready to debut its Santee tasting room to the public at a grand-opening event taking place <strong>Sunday, February 12<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>A few pieces of d\u00e9cor remain to be placed in the facility\u2019s public-area, but on the brewing-side, company president <strong>Kevin Rhodes <\/strong>says his team is hitting their stride, brewing roughly every other day after cleaning out and modernizing the space to fit their needs. Ryan has overseen the transition from the company\u2019s original, much smaller location in Grantville. Groundswell has also brought on additional talent in the form of ex-<a href=\"http:\/\/www.toolboxbrewing.com\"><strong>Toolbox Brewing Company<\/strong><\/a> brewer <strong>Brent Donovan<\/strong>, who will be charged with implementing programs for sour and barrel-aged beers.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_16370\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16370\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/gswell.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-16370\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/gswell.jpg?resize=300%2C198&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/gswell.jpg?resize=300%2C198&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/gswell.jpg?resize=768%2C506&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/gswell.jpg?resize=1024%2C675&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/gswell.jpg?w=1442&amp;ssl=1 1442w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16370\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Groundswell Brewing&#8217;s new Santee tasting room<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Groundswell plans to hold on to its Grantville venue, converting the brewery into storage space while reconfiguring the tasting room so that it includes additional seating. Tickets to the opening event for the Santee tasting room will go on sale <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/groundswellsantee.brownpaperticket.com\/\">online<\/a>, tomorrow at 6 a.m.<\/strong>.\u00a0That venue is located at <strong>10151 Prospect Avenue<\/strong>\u00a0and the event will take place <strong>from 12 to 8:30 p.m.\u00a0<\/strong>That tasting room&#8217;s regular hours are\u00a0<strong>1 to 10 p.m. Monday through Friday, 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. on Saturdays, and 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. on Sundays<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, Groundswell Brewing Company took large, highly visible steps toward increasing the size and scope of its operations by purchasing the 12,000-square-foot brewing and distilling facility vacated by defunct Santee business, Twisted Manzanita Ales and Spirits. This move came shortly after Groundswell brought on veteran brewer Callaway Ryan (Surly Brewing, Stone Brewing, URBN St. [&hellip;]<\/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":[367,368,1],"tags":[1353,376,442,3587,3588,2009,391,43,1462,1297,2483,3214,3026,1439,446,1473,1474,3589,1832,1538,1347,1637],"class_list":{"0":"post-16364","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-beer-events","7":"category-beer-news","8":"category-san-diego-beer-beverage-news","9":"tag-sdbeer","10":"tag-beer","11":"tag-brandon-hernandez","12":"tag-brent-donovan","13":"tag-cal-ryan","14":"tag-callaway-ryan","15":"tag-craftbeer","16":"tag-grand-opening","17":"tag-grantville","18":"tag-groundswell-brewing","19":"tag-indiebeer","20":"tag-kevin-rhodes","21":"tag-prospect-avenue","22":"tag-san-diego","23":"tag-santee","24":"tag-stone-brewery","25":"tag-stone-brewing","26":"tag-surly-brewing","27":"tag-toolbox-brewing","28":"tag-twisted-manzanita","29":"tag-urbn-st","30":"tag-west-coaster","31":"entry","32":"has-post-thumbnail"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","wps_subtitle":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdtr4y-4fW","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16364","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=16364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}