![]() ![]() īeer festivals promoted the new styles and educated a new generation of beer drinkers. The local craft beer movement was inspired in part by homebrewing hobbyists, supported by the storefront Home Brew Mart, which opened in 1992 and later spun off the Ballast Point Brewing Company. In the mid-1990s a second wave of craft breweries appeared, led by Pizza Port, Stone and Alesmith. This was the first commercial brewery in San Diego since 1953, and for many San Diego consumers it was their first exposure to freshly brewed beer and to styles such as amber lager and pale ale. In 1989 the Karl Strauss Brewing Company opened a brewery and brewpub on Columbia Street in Downtown San Diego and expanded into distribution brewing in 1991. But changes in national and state law in the late 1970s made home brewing legal, and in 1982 California allowed breweries to operate restaurants on their premises, which made brewpubs possible. From 1953 until the 1980s the local beer market was dominated by the large national brewers, with the alternative being imported beer from Mexico. These were soon either purchased by the Big Three national brewing companies (Anheuser-Busch, Coors, and Miller) or driven out of business by the aggressive marketing practices of the Big Three. After repeal there were three: Aztec Brewing Company, San Diego Brewing Company, and Balboa Brewing Company. īefore Prohibition there had been seven breweries in San Diego. Several modern breweries were built in Mexicali to supply the demand. In the formerly small town of Tijuana more than 180 cantinas were built to serve American visitors, and the city's population grew tenfold between 19. ĭuring Prohibition (1920–1933), San Diegans could still drink beer by crossing the border into Mexico. The name Aztec Brewing Company has been revived in a Vista brewery which opened in 2011. ![]() For the next 36 years there was no local commercially brewed beer in San Diego County. The company was purchased by Altes Brewing Company in 1948 Altes was then bought by the National Brewing Company, which closed Aztec Brewing Company in 1953. By 1944 Aztec was the only brewery still operating in Southern California. It featured a large Rathskeller, or basement beer hall, decorated with murals, paintings, and woodcarvings by Jose Moya del Pino. It was located on Main Street in Barrio Logan. The company moved to San Diego in 1933, following the repeal of Prohibition, and became San Diego's largest brewery. During Prohibition it helped to supply Americans with the beer they could not legally buy in the United States. The Aztec Brewing Company was founded in Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico, in 1921 as Cerveceria Azteca SA. The name Mission Brewery was revived in 2007 by a brewery located in the historic Wonder Bread building in Downtown San Diego. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. It was never reopened as a brewery, but the landmark five-story brick building was repurposed several times, for kelp extraction until the 1980s and ultimately as an office building, still in operation. Mission Brewery, located in the Middletown neighborhood of San Diego, opened in 1913 and closed due to Prohibition. The old Mission Brewery building in San Diego A brewpub by the same name now operates in the Mission Valley neighborhood. It reopened in 1935 and continued in operation until 1942, when it was displaced by the U.S. It closed in 1920 because of Prohibition. It was located on 32nd street in San Diego. At the time it was the largest manufacturing enterprise in the county. The San Diego Brewing Company opened in 1896 as the first commercial brewery in San Diego County Alonzo Horton, the father of modern San Diego, was one of the founders. San Diego County breweries including Stone Brewing Co., AleSmith Brewing Company and Ballast Point Brewing Company are consistently rated among the top breweries in the world. Its beer culture is a draw for tourism, particularly during major festivals such as San Diego Beer Week and the San Diego International Beer Competition. San Diego County brewers pioneered the specialty beer style known as Double India Pale Ale (Double IPA), sometimes called San Diego Pale Ale. Based on 2016 sales volume, three San Diego County breweries – Stone, Green Flash, and Karl Strauss – rank among the 50 largest craft brewers in the United States. As of 2018, the county was home to 155 licensed craft breweries – the most of any county in the United States. San Diego County, California, has been called "the Craft Beer Capital of America". The previous location of AleSmith Brewing Company in San Diego ![]()
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