{"id":16396,"date":"2017-02-06T08:00:19","date_gmt":"2017-02-06T16:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/?p=16396"},"modified":"2017-02-06T08:51:30","modified_gmt":"2017-02-06T16:51:30","slug":"on-the-tracks-closes-stumblefoot-brewing-sells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/2017\/02\/06\/on-the-tracks-closes-stumblefoot-brewing-sells\/","title":{"rendered":"On-The-Tracks closes, Stumblefoot Brewing sells"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Amid a glut of new brewery openings, a beer interest of more than six years quietly shuttered recently. That business is Carlsbad\u2019s On-The-Tracks Brewery<\/strong>. The family-run business had soldiered on within a business park that later welcomed two other breweries\u2014Arcana Brewing Company<\/strong><\/a> (opened as Fezziwig\u2019s Brewing Company<\/strong> in 2012) and Guadalupe Brewery <\/strong><\/a>(installed inside Carlsbad Brew Supply <\/strong>in 2015).<\/p>\n

This development\u00a0comes on the heels of news that two San Diego County brewery owners are selling their businesses. As reported in December, Jim Crute<\/strong>, the owner and brewmaster at Poway\u2019s Lightning Brewery<\/strong><\/a>, is actively searching for an entrepreneur interested in a turnkey-brewery opportunity. Meanwhile, the owners of San Marcos\u2019 Stumblefoot Brewing Company<\/strong><\/a> have sold their six-year-old brand. The last local brewery to sell was Kearny Mesa’s\u00a0Quantum Brewing<\/strong><\/a>, which changed hands last summer.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Some might see these news items\u00a0as signs of bad times to come for local craft breweries, but I see it as a coming of age. This industry has grown by leaps and bounds over the past decade, consistently blowing beyond\u00a0all estimates. No boom is eternal. At some point, every manufacturing-based industry must come down to Earth. And that\u2019s where San Diego craft beer is. Some businesses will thrive and some will work desperately to eke out an existence. Some will fail and go out of business, and they will be replaced by new businesses or handed over to new owners. Companies shutting their doors or selling their operations is not cause for alarm. It\u2019s simply how business is done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Amid a glut of new brewery openings, a beer interest of more than six years quietly shuttered recently. That business is Carlsbad\u2019s On-The-Tracks Brewery. The family-run business had soldiered on within a business park that later welcomed two other breweries\u2014Arcana Brewing Company (opened as Fezziwig\u2019s Brewing Company in 2012) and Guadalupe Brewery (installed inside Carlsbad […]<\/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":[1353,1932,376,442,668,1821,391,743,1822,2483,1223,926,298,3159,1467,3599,1439,131,852,1637],"class_list":{"0":"post-16396","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-arcana-brewing","10":"tag-beer","11":"tag-brandon-hernandez","12":"tag-carlsbad","13":"tag-carlsbad-brew-supply","14":"tag-craftbeer","15":"tag-fezziwigs-brewing","16":"tag-guadalupe-brewery","17":"tag-indiebeer","18":"tag-jim-crute","19":"tag-kearny-mesa","20":"tag-lightning-brewery","21":"tag-on-the-tracks-brewery","22":"tag-poway","23":"tag-quantum-brewing","24":"tag-san-diego","25":"tag-san-marcos","26":"tag-stumblefoot","27":"tag-west-coaster","28":"entry","29":"has-post-thumbnail"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","wps_subtitle":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdtr4y-4gs","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16396","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=16396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16396\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}