{"id":20901,"date":"2018-08-27T08:00:09","date_gmt":"2018-08-27T15:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/?p=20901"},"modified":"2018-08-24T08:22:08","modified_gmt":"2018-08-24T15:22:08","slug":"chula-vista-brewery-adds-head-brewer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/2018\/08\/27\/chula-vista-brewery-adds-head-brewer\/","title":{"rendered":"Chula Vista Brewery adds new head brewer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since opening Cinco de Mayo of last year, Chula Vista Brewery<\/strong><\/a> has been a one-man operation. That one man is Russell Clements<\/strong>, who came to the South Bay city\u2019s eponymous brewery after years of refinement at Ballast Point Brewing<\/strong><\/a> and La Jolla\u2019s Rock Bottom Brewery and Restaurant<\/strong><\/a>. With beer-interest and business booming on Third Avenue\u2014especially the block that houses not only Chula Vista Brewery, but Thr3e Punk Ales Brewing<\/strong><\/a>, a tasting room for Santee\u2019s Groundswell Brewing<\/strong><\/a> and Bar Sin Nombre<\/strong>\u2014Clements and owner Timothy Parker<\/strong> decided it was time to bring on more production manpower.<\/p>\n

Parker recently announced the hiring of James Hodges<\/strong>, an industry veteran who comes to the South Bay from the North County city of San Marcos, where he most recently worked at the production facility for Port Brewing <\/strong><\/a>\/ The Lost Abbey <\/strong><\/a>\/ The Hop Concept<\/strong><\/a>. Hodges began his career in beer as an opening bartender at Pizza Port<\/strong><\/a>\u2019s Ocean Beach brewpub in 2010. He later moved to the company\u2019s Carlsbad brewpub where he became a delivery driver and had the chance to begin assisting that facility\u2019s head brewer, Mike Aubuchon<\/strong>. In 2013, he was offered a position on the brewing team for Pizza Port\u2019s triple-threat sister company. He accepted and became an integral member of the brewhouse, cellar operations and barrel-blending team.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s bittersweet to leave the nest,\u201d says Hodges. \u201cI love and owe a lot to every brewer I worked with in my eight years in the Pizza Port and Lost Abbey fam, but I am looking forward to this next challenge of being the head guy and applying everything I have learned from those brewers.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hodges will begin work for Chula Vista Brewery at the start of September with his first beers finding their way onto tasting-room taps in early October. In the near-term, few changes are expected to the brewery\u2019s portfolio. While Hodges intends to bring forth new ideas and fresh concepts, he is pleased with the company\u2019s beers at present and his primary objective will be to refine their manufacture from a technical standpoint, with Clements providing oversight in a mentoring capacity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Since opening Cinco de Mayo of last year, Chula Vista Brewery has been a one-man operation. That one man is Russell Clements, who came to the South Bay city\u2019s eponymous brewery after years of refinement at Ballast Point Brewing and La Jolla\u2019s Rock Bottom Brewery and Restaurant. With beer-interest and business booming on Third Avenue\u2014especially […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":20903,"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":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-20901","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":"entry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_0016.jpg?fit=837%2C628&ssl=1","wps_subtitle":"South Bay operation hires brewer from popular North County brewery","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdtr4y-5r7","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20901","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=20901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20901\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}