{"id":20732,"date":"2018-07-23T12:30:58","date_gmt":"2018-07-23T19:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/?p=20732"},"modified":"2018-07-26T09:25:45","modified_gmt":"2018-07-26T16:25:45","slug":"intergalactic-brewing-to-close-at-months-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/2018\/07\/23\/intergalactic-brewing-to-close-at-months-end\/","title":{"rendered":"Intergalactic Brewing to close at month\u2019s end"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s been a long and winding road for Alex Van Horne<\/strong>, the owner and brewmaster at Intergalactic Brewing<\/strong><\/a> (9715 Carroll Centre Road, #107, Miramar)<\/em>. He opened his science-fiction-themed nanobrewery in 2013 and garnered a robust enough cult following to expand his business in 2016 to include a stand-alone tasting room much larger than the one at the brewing facility he maintained. While the environs were a step up, the business struggled to attract enough patronage for it be feasible in its enlarged state.<\/p>\n

In June of last year, Van Horne made it known he was entertaining investment offers from outside sources to keep Intergalactic in business, and this March, feeling he\u2019d found the right partners and game plan, he announced plans to pare down his operation by 1,100 square feet. Today, Van Horne took to social-media to announce that he and his wife have decided to close the business following a final service on Tuesday, July 31<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe had a couple of [potential deals] that almost came to fruition, but we ultimately decided that we wanted to get out of ownership roles, change the levels of stress in our lives and focus on ourselves and starting a family,\u201d says Van Horne.<\/p>\n

When asked if he is positive this is the end for Intergalactic\u2014Van Horne has wavered a bit in the past due mostly to his passion for the business and intense desire to keep it going\u2014he leaves the escape pod door open the slightest bit. \u201cI am 100% sure that next Tuesday will be the last pint of beer I intend to sell in my tasting room, [but] nothing in life is permanent. We are just along for the ride and sometimes things come back around or go away. So who knows, maybe I\u2019ll put a hat out?\u201d<\/p>\n

Intergalactic\u2019s announcement is the second in as many weeks from a brewery pulling the plug. Last week, Ramona-based ChuckAlek Independent Brewers<\/strong><\/a> announced it would close at summer\u2019s end after six years in business. This is the fifth San Diego County brewing company to shut down this year, and fifteenth to close since the start of 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s been a long and winding road for Alex Van Horne, the owner and brewmaster at Intergalactic Brewing (9715 Carroll Centre Road, #107, Miramar). He opened his science-fiction-themed nanobrewery in 2013 and garnered a robust enough cult following to expand his business in 2016 to include a stand-alone tasting room much larger than the one […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":20733,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[1353,2745,376,3463,442,5178,1966,390,2483,2675,880,2587,1439,5179,1637],"class_list":{"0":"post-20732","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-alex-van-horne","11":"tag-beer","12":"tag-beermar","13":"tag-brandon-hernandez","14":"tag-carroll-centre","15":"tag-chuckalek","16":"tag-craft-beer","17":"tag-indiebeer","18":"tag-intergalactic-brewing","19":"tag-miramar","20":"tag-ramona","21":"tag-san-diego","22":"tag-scifi","23":"tag-west-coaster","24":"entry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/intergalactic2.jpg?fit=1000%2C636&ssl=1","wps_subtitle":"Five-year-old cult-fave Miramar brewery to serve last beers July 31","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdtr4y-5oo","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20732","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=20732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}