With Ballast Point brewery shutdown, is San Diego's beer mug half-full?

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With Ballast Point brewery shutdown, is San Diego's beer mug half-full?
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Also this week, local victors at the World Beer Cup competition and Quick Sips from Oregon

I was vacationing in Oregon — see “Quick Sips” — when Ballast Point announced plans to abandon its flagship 107,00 square-foot-brewery in San Diego's Miramar area. Now owned by Kings & Convicts, Ballast hopes to cut costs by brewing in smaller facilities. This may be fiscally responsible, but what a dismal development! Home of the fabled Sculpin IPA, a brewery that once enjoyed a national following is shrinking before our eyes.

The World Beer Cup, one of the largest beer competitions anywhere, took place last month in Las Vegas. Our breweries captured 14 medals, improving on the 12 nabbed at the previous WBC. The winners: Coronado Brewing: gold, Nado, “international Lager” category. North Park Beer : gold, Ice-Fu!, “Hoppy Lager” category Pizza Port Ocean Beach: gold, Junk in the Trunk Dunkel, “South German-style Dunkel Weizen” category.

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