More and more San Diego breweries are planning, or have already completed, satellite tasting room operations that don’t have a brewery component. Currently, under state law, brewers can receive an unlimited number of duplicate licenses to open these spots, but Assembly Bill 2010 may soon limit that number to six.
Stone led the charge, opening the first Stone Company Store in South Park in June of 2011. They have since created outposts on Kettner Boulevard by the train station, right outside Petco Park, in Oceanside, and in Pasadena.
Modern Times Beer was invited to build their “Flavordome” inside the burgeoning North Parker on 30th Street, and they held a soft opening in May of this year.
8/10 mile directly north, San Marcos-based Rip Current is planning to build out a tasting room/restaurant combination right across the street from Ritual Tavern, with a prospective fall opening. 2/10 mile north of there, Belching Beaver swung up their garage door-style windows for the first time in April of 2013.
AleSmith’s space is TBD, while Port Brewing is closing in on a date for the unveiling of their Cardiff digs. Fellow North County brewery Iron Fist just signed a deal in Barrio Logan (close to the space of Border X Brewing’s satellite operation). Also south of downtown, Coronado’s new restaurant is soon coming to Imperial Beach.
The next to set up shop will be Santee-based Manzanita Brewing Company, who are hoping to open their Pacific Beach operation just north of Bare Back Grill in early September, just in time for the release of their pumpkin beer. There, they’ll have 23 taps and two beer engines.
This post was updated to include a few more businesses-in-planning. Know of other San Diego breweries planning satellite tasting rooms? E-mail me at ryan@westcoastersd.com
Jonathan says
I’d like to see the Westcoaster do an investigation on the relationships between non-brewery owned bars and restaurants as they compete with breweries/tasting rooms opening in close proximity. I’m curious because as a PB resident I have heard some chatter that Duck Dive, which currently carries Manzanita beers, will no longer carry their beer as a result of them opening a tasting room essentially next door. At what point does a producer cannibalize their own customers?