{"id":18439,"date":"2017-10-10T14:08:08","date_gmt":"2017-10-10T21:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/?p=18439"},"modified":"2017-10-11T10:46:00","modified_gmt":"2017-10-11T17:46:00","slug":"mikkeller-san-diego-hires-new-head-brewer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/2017\/10\/10\/mikkeller-san-diego-hires-new-head-brewer\/","title":{"rendered":"Mikkeller San Diego hires new head brewer"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Last month, Joe Lisica <\/strong>resigned from his post heading fermentation operations for Miramar-based Little Miss Brewing<\/strong>. He cited an amicable parting of ways with owners Greg and Jade Malkin<\/strong>, who brought him on as the company\u2019s first-ever brewmaster and a partner (though goals that would have triggered part-ownership were not reached prior to Lisica leaving). The Malkins wanted to go one direction with the beers they produced, while Lisica favored an altogether different creative trajectory.<\/p>\n

Lisica departed without a plan for his next step. He said he was actually looking forward to enjoying a little down-time after spending the past year-plus planning, hammering together and running a brand-new brewery. A life of rest and refueling must not have agreed with him, because he went back to work yesterday after being hired by Mikkeller Brewing San Diego<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0to serve as its head brewer. Lisica worked at Green Flash Brewing Company <\/strong><\/a>in Mira Mesa before moving on to move up with Little Miss. Here, he will be responsible for the manufacture of many more styles than he tackled at his last place of employ, filling a beer-board 19 strong and crafting weekly new releases.<\/p>\n

This will be the Miramar-based brewery\u2019s second head brewer. Initially, the company\u2014the brick-and-mortar overseas interest of Copenhagen, Denmark-based entrepreneur Mikkel Borg Bjergso<\/strong>\u2014brought veteran brewer Bill Batten<\/strong> over from sister-company AleSmith Brewing Company<\/strong><\/a> to lead brewery operations. Batten resigned in March and has gone on to consult for several San Diego County brewing companies while waiting to take the reins at his eventual home, TapRoom Beer Company<\/strong>, which is currently being birthed in North Park by the owners of Pacific Beach bar SD TapRoom<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Back at Mikkeller San Diego, the company maintains a cult following, but appears to be struggling with the inherent difficulties of having an owner that spends the majority of his time away from the business while guiding brewery decisions from afar. In other Mikkeller San Diego news, the company has removed the anvil that was formerly a component of its logo meant to communicate its partnership with AleSmith. AleSmith owner\u00a0Peter Zien<\/strong> says that, although he sold stocks in 2016 to give control of Mikkeller San Diego to Bjergso, he remains a partner from an artistic and financial perspective until Mikkeller San Diego’s lease expiration, at which time Zien will transition to a point where he is no longer a financial principal.<\/p>\n

Author’s Note:<\/strong> This article has been updated to reflect facts presented following its initial posting.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last month, Joe Lisica resigned from his post heading fermentation operations for Miramar-based Little Miss Brewing. He cited an amicable parting of ways with owners Greg and Jade Malkin, who brought him on as the company\u2019s first-ever brewmaster and a partner (though goals that would have triggered part-ownership were not reached prior to Lisica leaving). […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":18440,"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":[1353,865,376,1436,1289,442,4024,390,1350,2632,2737,2483,2738,3521,1348,1349,4364,61,880,1439,3569,3898,1637],"class_list":{"0":"post-18439","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-beer-news","8":"category-san-diego-beer-beverage-news","9":"tag-sdbeer","10":"tag-alesmith","11":"tag-beer","12":"tag-beeramar","13":"tag-bill-batten","14":"tag-brandon-hernandez","15":"tag-copenhagen","16":"tag-craft-beer","17":"tag-denmark","18":"tag-green-flash-brewing","19":"tag-greg-malkin","20":"tag-indiebeer","21":"tag-jade-malkin","22":"tag-joe-lisica","23":"tag-mikkel-borg-bjergso","24":"tag-mikkeller","25":"tag-mikkeller-brewing-san-diego","26":"tag-mira-mesa","27":"tag-miramar","28":"tag-san-diego","29":"tag-sd-taproom","30":"tag-taproom-beer","31":"tag-west-coaster","32":"entry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/mikkellersd.jpg?fit=851%2C315&ssl=1","wps_subtitle":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdtr4y-4Np","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18439","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=18439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}