Los Angeles Times

Craft beer pioneer Ballast Point is sold again — this time to a microbrewery

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

Ballast Point set up a brewpub in the West Loop and surprised everyone. Now, the California brewery’s Chicago spot is closed for good.

A sprawling Ballast Point brewpub in Chicago’s trendy West Loop neighborhood never made much sense. And now, less than three years later, it is gone for good. Ballast Point owner Brendan Watters said ...
National Academies of Sciences%2c Engineering%2c and Medicine

Stemming the Tide: Controlling Introductions of Nonindigenous Species by Ships' Ballast Water

Ships have always required ballast to operate successfully and safely. For millennia, ships carried solid ballast in the form of rocks, sand, roof tiles, and many other heavy materials. From the 1880s ...