Ballast Point Brewing Company is an American brewery founded in 1996 by Jack White in San Diego, California. Ballast Point Brewing Co. started in the back of Home Brew Mart, a homebrew supply store White founded in 1992.[1] As of 2015, it was the second largest brewer in San Diego County and the 17th largest brewery in the country based on sales volume.[2] The company's main production facility is in Miramar. It also has brewery locations in San Diego's Little Italy and Scripps Ranch neighborhoods, as well as its original Home Brew Mart location in San Diego's Linda Vista neighborhood.[3] In 2017, Ballast Point opened its first East Coast brewing facility in Daleville, Virginia, near Roanoke.
Ballast Point was also the first microdistillery in San Diego since Prohibition. The brewery was sold to Constellation Brands for $1 billion in 2015.[4] Its distillery business was spun off to a new company, Cutwater Spirits, in 2017 and subsequently purchased by Anheuser-Busch in 2019.[5] In December 2019, Chicago-based brewery Kings and Convicts announced it was buying Ballast Point from Constellation for undisclosed terms.[6]
