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Background Gravity Heights is a 13,000-square-foot, multi-level indoor/outdoor brewpub and beer garden located in the heart of Sorrento Mesa. Gravity Heights was created in collaboration with Arturo Kassel, the founder of Whisknladle Hospitality and brewers Skip Virgilio and Ryan Trim. The …
Background Poor House Brewing Company, a nano-brewery on 30th Street in the North Park area opened in September 2012. Chris Finch and longtime business partner Jennifer Alexander opened Barn Brewery. Finch and Alexander used to operate Firehouse Brewing Company that closed in 2010 and …
Background Barn Brewery, a nano-brewery on El Cajon in the North Park area opened in April 2015. Chris Finch and longtime business partner Jennifer Alexander teamed up with David Baker, who owns the building, along with the shopping plaza across the street …
Background Tom Vogel is the CEO, Owner, and General Manager of Belching Beaver Brewery. He had been a backyard brewer and winemaker for many years and decided that he wanted to open a brewery. He worked with Troy Smith, his fellow poker …
Background Ramon Astamendi began homebrewing in 1995 and took the great leap to professional brewing in 2007. After working at two start ups, Saint Archer and Mission Brewing, Ramon and a coworker Dave Lively opened Fall Brewing Company in November …
Background In 2009, Mike Hess relocated his financial services office into an industrial park along Miramar Road. At that point he had 15 years of home brewing experience under his belt. This new industrial office was chosen because of an …
Background Cameron Pryor got into home brewing sour beer and soon got his friends Zack Brager and Bill DeWitt interested. Feeling there was not enough sour beer being produced in Southern California, the trio felt it was an opportunity. Although …
Background Modern Times Beer is the brainchild of Jacob McKean, a longtime home brewer and Stone Brewing’s former social media guru. In January 2012, McKean walked away from his job at Stone Brewing and raised enough capital in 6 months to …
Background The idea of BrewLAB started in 2012 by three home-brewing friends, Rob Peed, Peter Goldammer, and Steve Jarmie. The opportunity for the space soon came up and the trio began piecing together the brewery. Everything in the tasting room …
Background Melissa & Josh Fisher opened Escape Craft Brewery in 2015. Josh has been a craft beer enthusiast and home brewer since his early 20s. He actually worked up to an impressive 10 tap kegerator system at home. At the encouragement …
