After years of hunting, Ballast Point has sealed the deal on a new production facility at 9045 Carroll Way in Miramar.
At nearly 107,000 sq. ft., there’s enough space for a 15,000 sq. ft. kitchen, restaurant, tasting room and retail area, plus a 150-BBL, five-vessel copper brewhouse from Germany, a bottling and canning line that will both run at ~500 units/minute, and a cold room nearly the same size as the company’s Scripps Ranch brewery — which will remain open and utilized mainly for specialty beers.
When the Miramar brewhouse is up-and-running (estimated July 2014), the four 450-BBL fermentors will bring the company’s production pace to 150,000 BBL/year, including 100,000 at Scripps. After a few batches, the first of which will be Sculpin, 750-BBL fermentors will be ordered.
The company has no plans to produce spirits at this location, although the program will be expanded at Scripps.
This brewery will be the eighth in the Miramar area, close to Saint Archer, Hess, White Labs, AleSmith, Rough Draft, 2Kids, and Intergalactic.
Michael Puente says
Go Ballast Point! We love your beers and so do our brewery tour customers. WC, do you think Habenaro Sculpin will ever go into regular production?
Mike Shess says
Hey Michael,
I think that beer is popular enough where they could do it. It’s a pretty labor-intensive beer so I don’t know about a year-round release but we I could see it coming out regularly as a seasonal.