{"id":22305,"date":"2019-06-04T08:00:42","date_gmt":"2019-06-04T15:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/?p=22305"},"modified":"2019-06-04T18:05:47","modified_gmt":"2019-06-05T01:05:47","slug":"belching-beaver-expanding-and-diversifying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/2019\/06\/04\/belching-beaver-expanding-and-diversifying\/","title":{"rendered":"Belching Beaver expanding and diversifying"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Only in a county with roughly 160 operating brewhouses could Belching Beaver Brewery<\/a> <\/strong>fly under the radar the way they have over the past seven years. Few local beer fans know it, but it is a big-time operation; the 99th largest U.S. brewery by volume, in fact, according to owner Tom Vogel<\/strong>. This was accomplished with zero investors and accumulation of very little debt compared to many of the North San Diego County business\u2019 industry contemporaries. And they\u2019re not done growing\u2014not by a long shot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Belching Beaver recently acquired\n24,000 square feet of additional space catty-corner to the company\u2019s Oceanside\nheadquarters. This brings the Oceanside campus to just under 49,000 square feet\ntotal. The new space will primarily be designated for beer packaging and\nmanufacturing a line of Belching Beaver-branded hard seltzers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c[Belching Beaver Brewery Tavern and Grill<\/strong> brewer] Thomas Peters<\/strong> brought hard seltzers up a while back. We are always looking for fun, new things to do,\u201d says Belching Beaver owner Tom Vogel<\/strong>. \u201cHard seltzers are doing well in the market. Having the extra square-footage and an extra canning line gives us ample room and ability to get into new product lines.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Belching Beaver\u2019s seltzers will be\nmade with fresh fruit. The initial edition, which was recently produced by head\nbrewer Troy Smith<\/strong>, will incorporate\nmangoes and oranges. Future varieties will draw on acai berries, blueberries\nand raspberries. Vogel and company have decided to go with neon packaging for a\nfresh look that will diversify the seltzers from Belching Beaver\u2019s beers at\nmarket.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In other news, the company has struck a deal with the owners of Ensenada\u2019s famous party-spot Hussong\u2019s<\/a><\/strong> <\/a>Cantina<\/a><\/strong> to revitalize its brand by brewing its official beer. A mutual friend connected Vogel with Hussong\u2019s ownership team, who came over and tried Belching Beaver\u2019s award-winning Buenos Tiempos Mexican-style lager. It won them over and a deal was struck. This project is of particular significance to Vogel, who used to frequent Mexico\u2014and Hussong\u2019s\u2014during his days as a college student at San Diego State University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mexico isn\u2019t the only international\narena Belching Beaver is playing in. In recent months, it began distributing\nits beer in Japan and Canada. Already, the company has taken first place in the\nDark Beer category at the Japan Brewers Cup and Best Specialty Beer, Best of\nU.S.A. and Best of Show at the Canadian International Beer Awards for its\nPeanut Butter Milk Stout. The company is on target to finish the year having\nproduced 40,000 to 45,000 barrels of beer, with the two new international\nterritories receiving around 8,000 case-equivalents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Only in a county with roughly 160 operating brewhouses could Belching Beaver Brewery fly under the radar the way they have over the past seven years. Few local beer fans know it, but it is a big-time operation; the 99th largest U.S. brewery by volume, in fact, according to owner Tom Vogel. This was accomplished […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":22325,"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":[367,1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-22305","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-beer-events","8":"category-san-diego-beer-beverage-news","9":"entry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/thumbnail_Hussongs_mockup_2.jpg?fit=682%2C1024&ssl=1","wps_subtitle":"North County brewery adding on, getting into hard-seltzer game","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdtr4y-5NL","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22305","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=22305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22305\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}