Last July, Little Miss Brewing secured a 10,000-square-foot structure in Logan Heights to serve as its new headquarters. The company has since installed a 30-barrel brewhouse and fermentation tanks with plans of moving production over from the original Miramar location it’s occupied since 2015. Though that transition won’t take place until late spring or early summer, beer will soon be available on-site when Little Miss debuts the Logan Heights facility’s tasting room.
“The space had good bones to start with and work there has gone smoothly. At 2,000 square feet, it’s the largest tasting room we’ve had yet,” says co-owner Greg Malkin. Little Miss operates the most tasting rooms of any San Diego brewing entity with nine, all of which are themed around World War II and U.S. Allied countries.
Last July, Little Miss Brewing secured a 10,000-square-foot structure in Logan Heights to serve as its new headquarters. The company has since installed a 30-barrel brewhouse and fermentation tanks with plans of moving production over from the original Miramar location it’s occupied since 2015. Though that transition won’t take place until late spring or early summer, beer will soon be available on-site when Little Miss debuts the Logan Heights facility’s tasting room.
“The space had good bones to start with and work there has gone smoothly. At 2,000 square feet, it’s the largest tasting room we’ve had yet,” says co-owner Greg Malkin. Little Miss operates the most tasting rooms of any San Diego brewing entity with nine, all of which are themed around World War II and U.S. Allied countries.
“The new facility is in a Quonset hut, a structure that was designed during World War II to be easy to build and cheap to produce. Like we did with our original production brewery, we went with an American motif, but included mural-art depicting the Pacific Theater,” says Malkin. “We built a bar around the cellar area so that customers can check out the brewers and equipment.”
Little Miss Logan Heights is equipped with 16 taps. They will be stocked with the company’s beers, including three new offerings—a cold IPA, West Coast IPA and Belgian-style pale ale—brewed specifically to celebrate the new space, which will be Logan Heights’ first brewery.
“I’ve found the neighborhood to be very welcoming with residents stopping in, interested about when we’ll open,” says Malkin. “It’s quieter than some of the neighborhoods we would normally open a tasting room in, but with a lack of any drinking establishment within miles I think we’ll do OK.”
Bringing local beer to communities that lack it has been Little Miss’ MO for the past half-decade. In addition to operating the only brewery-owned venues in Lakeside and Normal Heights, they also have satellite locations in Poway, La Mesa, Eastlake and downtown Escondido. Malkin admits it’s a different business model and that the long-term viability of such an approach will have to be proven over time, but he says that it’s going well so far.
Once open, the Logan Heights tasting room will be open Monday through Thursday from 2 to 10 p.m., Fridays and Saturdays from 1 p.m. to midnight and Sundays from noon to 9 p.m.
Little Miss Brewing’s headquarters is located at 3192 Commercial Street in Logan Heights