{"id":21218,"date":"2018-10-08T08:00:57","date_gmt":"2018-10-08T15:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/?p=21218"},"modified":"2018-10-04T16:00:59","modified_gmt":"2018-10-04T23:00:59","slug":"dos-desperados-brewery-expanding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/2018\/10\/08\/dos-desperados-brewery-expanding\/","title":{"rendered":"Dos Desperados Brewery expanding"},"content":{"rendered":"

From the outside, much seems the same about San Marcos\u2019 Dos Desperados Brewery<\/strong><\/a>, but enter the tasting room and you\u2019ll notice new beers intermingled with longtime flagships. Witness a brew day and you\u2019ll see a new individual leading production. And soon there\u2019ll be more, namely more space following acquisition of the suite next-door, plus beer in cans. These are exciting times for this small, neighborhood operation, and owner Steve Munson<\/strong> is excited for what\u2019s happening and what\u2019s to come. He\u2019s particularly high on the fast maturation of his new head brewer, Hayden Weir<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\u201cHayden was an environmental studies student and baseball player at CSU San Marcos. We hired him as a part-time beertender and brewer\u2019s assistant, and when he graduated we hired him full-time as our brewer,\u201d says Munson. \u201cHayden has networked with several local brewers to hone his trade, primarily Dean Rouleau<\/strong> and Doug Hasker<\/strong> (Gordon Biersch<\/strong><\/a>). He worked with Dean one-on-one for almost two years, learning process techniques and recipe design, preparing him to run brewing operations.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Rouleau brewed many years for San Diego Brewing<\/strong><\/a> before opening his own company, Prodigy Brewing<\/strong>, in the same complex as Dos Desperados. He has since closed the business. It is his space that Munson and company are taking over. Though Rouleau has moved to the East Coast, his teachings live on with Weir, who is excited to continue expanding Dos Desperados\u2019 portfolio. In doing so, he\u2019ll utilize an 18-gallon research-and-development fermenter in the new space. Other equipment that will be moved into that additional 1,200 square feet of real estate include a 15-barrel mash tun, 10-barrel brew kettle and five 10-barrel fermenters. Meanwhile, a trio of 10-barrel tanks will remain in the original 2,400-square-foot brewery.<\/p>\n

Should sales dictate an increase in production capacity, 20-barrel fermenters and bright tanks will be added to the mix. Dos Desperados\u2019 2018 barrelage will come in at 600 barrels. Its expansion will allow the company to reach approximately 1,000 barrels next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From the outside, much seems the same about San Marcos\u2019 Dos Desperados Brewery, but enter the tasting room and you\u2019ll notice new beers intermingled with longtime flagships. Witness a brew day and you\u2019ll see a new individual leading production. And soon there\u2019ll be more, namely more space following acquisition of the suite next-door, plus beer […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":21221,"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-21218","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\/10\/hayden2.jpg?fit=700%2C453&ssl=1","wps_subtitle":"San Marcos operation has new space and new head brewer","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdtr4y-5we","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21218","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=21218"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21220,"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21218\/revisions\/21220"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}