Hess Brewing Looking at Expanded North Park Location

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I’ve been hearing talk for a while now that Hess Brewing is looking to expand — they’re currently brewing on a 1.6 barrel system in the Miramar area. More recently I had been hearing that they might be looking for a location in North Park. Sign On San Diego’s Peter Rowe confirmed that today with a post on his Brewery Rowe blog. He spoke to Michael Hess over the weekend who told him they’re looking to run a 30-barrel system in North Park while maintaining their current nanobrewery in Miramar.

No word on exactly where Hess is looking in North Park, but the talk I’ve heard is that someone (although maybe not Hess) has been looking at the old Post Office building at the corner of Grim Ave and North Park Way to bring a brewery to North Park.

Hess tells Rowe that if all goes as planned they hope to be open by mid 2012.

I’ll post more on Hess’s move to North Park, and anything else beer related I hear about the old post office building as soon as I get more details.

Home Brews and Gardens Brewing Co.?

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I doubt that’ll be the name they end up going with, but last week Home Brews and Gardens, North Park’s homebrew and gardening supply and ingredients shop on Thorn Street applied for a type 23 small beer manufacturer’s license.

Seems like you can’t got a day in this town without hearing about a new craft beer bar, brewpub or brewery opening.

Assuming they pass all the scrutiny of the California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control, getting past neighbor complaints and protests and are issued a license, then they can start commercial brewing and selling their beer.

For an area as beer-centric as North Park, the prospect of this, what would be the first brewery in North Park is pretty exciting.

The Linkery Investigating Brewing on Premises

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The Linkery has always focused on well made, handcrafted (and often local) food. In their own words from their website, “Making everything by hand, from scratch, including house-baked bread, house made mustard and sauerkraut, and hand spun ice cream.” The Linkery has a great beer lineup but they have never been able to make their own beer, however in this blog post by Linkery owner Jay Porter he announces that The Linkery is looking into brewing their own beer.

I don’t have any more info than is in the Linkery’s blog post, and Porter stresses that this is still very early in the planning process, adding “It may be that making no change [to The Linkery] at all is the best action; we’ll see.”

Done right, I think a brewpub would be a great addition to the neighborhood. The uptown neighborhood’s of South Park, North Park, Normal Heights and University Heights have some of the best beer drinking establishment’s around in my opinion but only one “brewpub” (Blind Lady Ale House/Automatic Brewing Co. being the only current brewery in those neighborhoods).

Click over and read more about it on The Farm and the City (The Linkery’s blog). Their blog doesn’t allow comments, so if you have any thoughts on the prospect of a brewery at The Linkery feel free to leave a comment below.

Photo from The Farm and the City