Hot Regional Brewery Updates: New Facilities, Flagships and Cans

Dear Client: Remember the Little Italy outpost, Ballast Point Brewery and Kitchen [see CBD 04-23-2013 ], the brewery promised earlier this year? The three-barrel brewhouse (plus "food they like to eat") is slated to open next month under the guidance of R&D director Colby Chandler. That's an interesting study in the increasingly popular brewery outpost model. But Ballast is still hunting for their second full-blown production facility, which they'd originally hoped to have opened by mid-2013. One building already fell