SD shows up at LA International Beer Competition
After the opening series at Petco Park, wherein this native San Diegan’s beloved Friars failed to score a single run against the Dodgers, it’s hard to even type the letters LA. But fortunately, I have...
View ArticleOctober Events Sampler Flight
There’s no shortage of fermentable fun to be had during the month bridging Oktoberfest and All Hallow’s Eve, and we’ve culled through the plethora of beery affairs to highlight a few standouts. But...
View ArticlePoway’s Lightning Brewery up for sale
In 2006, when Jim Crute transitioned from a long career as a biochemist to become a brewery owner, the landscape in San Diego County was very different. For one thing, the story of a starry-eyed...
View ArticleOn-The-Tracks closes, Stumblefoot Brewing sells
Amid a glut of new brewery openings, a beer interest of more than six years quietly shuttered recently. That business is Carlsbad’s On-The-Tracks Brewery. The family-run business had soldiered on...
View ArticleQ&A: Jim Crute
Founder, Lightning Brewery Yesterday, news broke that all manufacturing assets of Poway’s Lightning Brewery had been purchased by Santa Ana interest Cismontane Brewing. Lightning owner Jim Crute put...
View ArticleIntergalactic Brewing’s uncertain future
When I first met Alex Van Horne he was looking to install a sci-fi-themed brewery in Poway. The plot reminded me of that of Jim Crute, who installed his science-themed Lightning Brewery in Poway a...
View ArticleCismontane opening Knø Beverage House in Escondido
More San Diegans became familiar with Orange County’s Cismontane Brewing earlier this year when it purchased the majority of Poway interest Lightning Brewery’s equipment. Those mechanisms will be...
View ArticlePoway’s Lightning Brewery resurfacing as nanobrewery
Last June, Lightning Brewery owner and brewmaster Jim Crute sold his brewing equipment to Orange County’s Cismontane Brewing but maintained the leased space for his Poway tasting room and beer garden....
View ArticleTasting room space available in Old Poway Village
In its history, the North County inland community of Poway has played home to just two breweries. The first was Lightning Brewery, which recently reopened as a nanobrewery after selling off its...
View ArticleBest #SDBeer Futures: South Bay & Urban Core
This is the fourth and final installment of a series of roundups assessing the most promising brewery-owned projects currently in the pipeline in San Diego County. We’ve looked at work in progress in...
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