WTSP

Ballast Point significantly damaged from Hurricane Helene

TAMPA, Fla. — The pier at Ballast Point is barricaded from visitors with rolls of caution tape over metal grates with locks after Hurricane Helene wrecked it, leaving the walkway inaccessible. Video ...
San Diego Union-Tribune

Ballast Point sold for the second time in four years

For the second time in four years, Ballast Point — a San Diego craft beer pioneer that became one of the areas’s largest breweries — has been sold. Kings & Convicts Brewing Co., a tiny Illinois firm, ...
Food & Wine

Ballast Point Was Once Valued at $1 Billion. It Just Sold for a 'Surprisingly Low' Amount

Chicago's Kings & Convicts purchased the brewery from Constellation Brands which paid $1 billion for it four years ago. Mike Pomranz has been covering craft beer for nearly two decades and trending ...
Los Angeles Times

Ballast Point’s rise, fall and sale: Inside craft beer’s most baffling deal

Fresh off a family trip to Rome, Chris Bradley sat down with Brendan Watters, his partner at Kings & Convicts, a little Illinois brewery. Anything happen, Bradley asked, during his vacation? “We’re ...
Los Angeles Times

$1-billion Ballast Point deal continues heady year for beer industry mergers

Constellation Brands, the third-largest beer company in the U.S., with Corona, Modelo and Pacifico in its portfolio, has purchased San Diego’s Ballast Point Brewing and Spirits for $1 billion. The ...