Closure
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CRAFT Q&A
Opening up about closing down Rouleur Brewing
I remember first meeting Rawley Macias in 2016. A longtime homebrewer who had just secured a home in Carlsbad for…
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BEER NEWS
Barrio Logan brewery seeks public assistance
Eleven years ago, a family banded together to establish a brewing company celebrating Hispanic culture through beers infused with ingredients…
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CRAFT Q&A
Amplified Ale Works’ owner offers exit interview
A licensing requirement is what led entrepreneurial duo Alex Pierson and JC Hill to plunk a three-barrel brewery into their…
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BEER NEWS
Local brewery owners retiring, closing business
As is to be expected, there’s an element of sadness for business owners when they decide to call it a…
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BEER NEWS
WestBrew closing venues, focusing on distribution
This time last year, Joshua and Heather Lynn Schreer, the married owners of Vista-based craft-beer company WestBrew, were readying to…
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BEER NEWS
Ebullition Brew Works closes
After operating a North County bar and restaurant for four years, the owners of Ebullition Brew Works have announced that…
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BEER NEWS
Second Chance Beer Co. closing venues
Marty Mendiola had a safe head brewer position with, at the time, a rock-solid restaurant group he’d been employed by…
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BEER NEWS
Quantum Brewing’s owner looking to pass the torch
Martin Beaulieu had zero entrepreneurial or commercial-brewing experience when he put in an offer to purchase two-years-young Quantum Brewing from…
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BEER NEWS
Closing, consolidating and relocating
In the past year, 17 brewing facilities and brewery-owned venues in San Diego County have closed. At first blush, that…
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BEER NEWS
Coronado Brewing exiting IB
Over the past three years, a trio of craft-beer companies–Mike Hess Brewing, Novo Brazil Brewing and Pizza Port Brewing–have expanded,…
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