{"id":23507,"date":"2020-02-26T09:44:25","date_gmt":"2020-02-26T17:44:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/?p=23507"},"modified":"2020-02-26T09:45:14","modified_gmt":"2020-02-26T17:45:14","slug":"nick-corona-purchasing-barrel-harbor-brewing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/2020\/02\/26\/nick-corona-purchasing-barrel-harbor-brewing\/","title":{"rendered":"Nick Corona purchasing Barrel Harbor Brewing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Last year was a turbulent one for <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.barrelharborbrewing.com\">Barrel Harbor Brewing<\/a><\/strong> owner <strong>Tim St. Martin<\/strong>. In May, he closed the Vista-based company\u2019s Miramar tasting room. In July, he launched a crowdfunding campaign to keep Barrel Harbor afloat. It was ultimately unsuccessful. In October, the California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control revoked his license, forcing him to shutter, but come December, he was able to reopen after selling off select assets to soldier on. But 2020 is looking up for St. Martin as homebrewer and entrepreneur <strong>Nick Corona <\/strong>is in negotiations to purchase the business so he can install his <strong>Five Suits Brewing<\/strong> concept.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier this year, St. Martin and Corona discussed a contract-brewing relationship. During that process, they learned that they share many similarities. Both started as home brewers, are part of families with public-service (military, police, fire department, etc.) backgrounds and share an affection for four-legged family members. As they grew more familiar with one another, St. Martin saw an opportunity to \u201cpass the proverbial torch,\u201d and their conversations shifted from contracting to a full-scale purchase.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Though Barrel Harbor\u2019s recipes and brand assets will\nbe part of the sale, Corona intends to focus solely on developing the Five\nSuits Brand. He will do so with his wife, <strong>Kandy\nCorona<\/strong>, overseeing tasting room\noperations, and his brother, <strong>Shane\nSmith<\/strong>, handling sales,\nmarketing and cellar duties. Business operations will be the charge of mom and\ndad, <strong>Leslie and Joe Corona<\/strong>, while Nick will head brewing, bringing many of his\naward-winning recipes to life on a professional scale amid a casino motif\nreminiscent of Las Vegas\u2019 Rat Pack Era.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cGaming is our theme, but we\u2019re much more than that,\u201d\nsays Corona. \u201cWhile we develop our brand, we envision there being a lot of\ncrossover between craft beer fans who love good beer and those who are just\nlooking to be entertained and leave their troubles at the door. Most of the\nbeers I\u2019ve brewed have been to-style, but I\u2019ll be listening to our guests more\nthan anything. The more people in a crowd that I can satisfy, the happier I\u2019ll\nbe.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Opened in 2013, Barrel Harbor is located at <strong>2575 Pioneer Avenue, #104<\/strong>. It is equipped with a ten-barrel brewing system\nand a sizeable tasting room. Originally, Corona had planned to install Five\nSuits as part of a multi-concept collective in Escondido that included <strong>Notorious Burgers<\/strong>, <strong>Good\nOmen Mead<\/strong> and <strong>Stoke Distilling<\/strong>. As reported in October, issues that led to\nNotorious Burgers and Stoke Distilling pulling out of the project, caused\nCorona to follow suit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Though Barrel Harbor\u2019s sale has yet to be finalized,\nCorona already has his eyes on the future. While creating an entertaining\nexperience at the Vista tasting room will be his priority, Five Suits beers\nwill be distributed to a handful of select accounts in San Diego\u2019s North County\nregion. He also hopes to open a satellite tasting room in a coastal locale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI was raised in La Costa, but went to school in Solana Beach,\u201d says Corona. \u201cGrowing up as a San Diegan is something I\u2019ll never take for granted. There is no better place to live and starting a family business here is absolutely a dream come true.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If all goes as planned, Barrel Harbor will continue to operate as it has through the end of April, at which time the Five Suits team will take over with a grand-opening timetable of late-May or early-June. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year was a turbulent one for Barrel Harbor Brewing owner Tim St. Martin. In May, he closed the Vista-based company\u2019s Miramar tasting room. In July, he launched a crowdfunding campaign to keep Barrel Harbor afloat. It was ultimately unsuccessful. In October, the California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control revoked his license, forcing him to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":23512,"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-23507","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\/2020\/02\/fivesuits.png?fit=2424%2C976&ssl=1","wps_subtitle":"Award-winning homebrewer to install Five Suits Brewing concept in Vista","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdtr4y-679","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23507","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=23507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}