{"id":9736,"date":"2014-05-15T16:50:39","date_gmt":"2014-05-15T23:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/?p=9736"},"modified":"2014-05-16T09:24:32","modified_gmt":"2014-05-16T16:24:32","slug":"rd-tap-takeover-ballast-point-518","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/2014\/05\/15\/rd-tap-takeover-ballast-point-518\/","title":{"rendered":"R&D Tap Takeover @ Ballast Point: 5\/18"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Ballast<\/a>
Chandler, left, with production employees Kelly Tidwell and Alan Schultz. Photo by Tim Stahl<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

With the San Diego City Council declaring this week Ballast Point Week, it’s fitting that this Sunday each location<\/a> (Ballast Point Little Italy, Old Grove & Home Brew Mart) will be tapping beers from the “research and development” department, aka Ballast Point’s newest brewhouse in Little Italy.<\/p>\n

As part of the R&D program, run by Julia Cain, specialty brewer Colby Chandler has\u00a0been bringing in Ballast Point employees to brew on the small system in an effort they’re calling Roots to Boots (R2B). “We’re working to get every employee in the brewhouse, and by the end of the quarter we’ll be close to 90%,” said Chandler. “I don’t know of any other brewery in the world that’s doing this.” As a former San Diego Brewers Guild President who travels extensively, that says a lot.<\/p>\n

Nearly 80 different types of beers have been brewed in Little Italy over the last six months: ~35 R2B beers and ~45 R&D beers. Below is a list Ballast Point provided of beers that will be on tap Sunday, showing the wide variety of ideas that brewery staff have come up with:<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>
The R&D\/R2B brewhouse. Photo by Tim Stahl<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Island Time,\u00a0Coconut Macademia Nut Brown <\/span>Trans Atlantic Belgian Triple, Belgian Triple
Cherry\/Vanilla Milk Stout\u00a0<\/span>
Firkin Hoppy,\u00a0English IPA<\/span>
Dead Water Dubbel,\u00a0Belgian Dubbel with Apricots<\/span>
Unite Pale Ale,\u00a0Cascade hopped Pale Ale<\/span>
FNG (100% Brett fermentation)\u00a0Brett IPA<\/span>
Limon Woocello,\u00a0Strong Cream Ale with Sorrento Lemon Zest<\/span>
The Commodore,\u00a0American Stout<\/span>
Baltic Sea of Cherries,\u00a0Baltic Porter with Cherries<\/span>
Guac The Plank,\u00a0Guac Saison<\/span>
Wort Hogs,\u00a0Session IPA<\/span>
The Bearded Rose,\u00a0Chocolate Raspberry Milk Stout<\/span>
Foggy Head,\u00a0Smoked Porter<\/span>
Manta Ray w\/Coffee,\u00a0Milk Stout with Coffee<\/span>
OG’s Mild,\u00a0English Mild<\/span>
Manta Ray,\u00a0Milk Stout<\/span>
Ball Tick C,\u00a0Baltic Porter<\/span>
Shore Leave,\u00a0Cream Ale<\/span>
Ginger Beerd, Green Flash Collaboration, (100% Brett fermentation) Brettoberfest with Ginger<\/span>
Coral,\u00a0Guava Wheat<\/span>
Out of Town Brown,\u00a0American Brown<\/span>
Shakaboom,\u00a0Double IPA<\/span>
Sushi Biru, Rice IPA with Ginger and Wasabi<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With the San Diego City Council declaring this week Ballast Point Week, it’s fitting that this Sunday each location (Ballast Point Little Italy, Old Grove & Home Brew Mart) will be tapping beers from the “research and development” department, aka Ballast Point’s newest brewhouse in Little Italy. As part of the R&D program, run by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9736","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-san-diego-beer-beverage-news","7":"entry","8":"has-post-thumbnail"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","wps_subtitle":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdtr4y-2x2","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9736","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}