At 23,000 square feet, this facility contains a 50-barrel brew house that operates 24/7 and produces 100,000 barrels of beer a year. The craft brewer and distiller’s next endeavor was Scripps Ranch, also within the city limits of San Diego. The craft brewery and distillery might have started in the back of Home Brew Mart - which houses a 20-barrel brew house that manufactures specialty beers and features a tasting room - but since then has added four other points of operation. Room to growĪs depicted in the 1976 Schoolhouse Rock! song “Elbow Room,” “it’s nice when you’re cozy, but not when you’re tangled nose to nosey, oh everybody needs some elbow, needs a little elbow room.”Īlthough the educational children’s song was describing Thomas Jefferson’s Louisiana Purchase in 1803, the notion of expansion is one that Ballast Point has embraced. Homebrewers interested in competing can visit /OG20 for more information. In celebration of this milestone, the company will pay homage to its start with the Ballast Point Original Gravity 20th Anniversary Homebrew Competition, a nationwide homebrewing contest that rolled out at the end of February. With the core of its brewing and distilling process unfazed by the acquisition, Ballast Point is gearing up for its 20th anniversary. … The reality is nothing’s really changed.” We have our own national account teams and sales rep teams. We’re making the decisions on our distributor relationships. “We make the decisions of what we’re brewing,” he says. The team at Constellation shares our values, entrepreneurial spirit and passion for beer, and has a proven track record of helping successful premium brands reach the next level of growth and scale.”īecause Ballast Point is treated as an independent business, not much has changed at the company, Kight explains. “To achieve that vision, we needed to find the right partner. “We started this business nearly 20 years ago with a vision to produce great beer that consumers love and to do it the right way,” White said in a statement in November 2015. Although the acquisition allows Ballast Point access to Constellation’s financial position and willingness to invest in growth, the company continues to operate as a standalone business. Constellation acquired the craft brewery and distillery to enable it to compete in the craft beer market.
In 2015, Ballast Point’s success garnered the attention of Victor, N.Y.-based Constellation Brands Inc.
If you step back and think about it, we try to brew, distill and deliver food that we like to eat.”
“The goal of our company is we brew and we distill things that we like to drink and we hope that our customers do also, so we’ve stayed really true to that. “Pretty much everything has stayed the same,” he notes. But even with those expansions, it remains true to where it began, Kight says. Now 20 years removed from the launching of Ballast Point, the company has seen the fruits of its labor flourish as it continues to expand its brick-and-mortar operations.