Local Beer Marches On: San Diego breweries announce expansion

April 13, 2018 12 PM PT

Even as Green Flash retreats and regroups, two San Diego breweries are going in the opposite direction, announcing major expansions.

Santa Barbara is the latest link in Modern Times’ chain of West Coast outposts, as a 5,000-square-foot tasting room and restaurant are planned for South State Street in that city’s downtown.

The precise address and opening day have not been revealed, but the announcement — delivered in the breathless, hyper-amped tones perfected by this brewery — named the new spot: the Modern Times Academy of Recreational Science.

Duck Foot, which opened in Miramar in 2015, is building a 1,500-square-foot tasting room and restaurant in San Diego’s East Village. The 16 taps will include some limited releases, while the kitchen — helmed by Logan Kendall, formerly with Acre, a James Beard-nominated restaurant in Auburn, Ala. — will focus on gluten-free dishes.

No opening date, but here’s the address: 550 Park Blvd., Suite 2104, downtown San Diego.

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Peter Rowe

Peter joined The San Diego Union-Tribune in 1984. A native Californian who grew up in Encinitas, Rowe is a graduate of UC Berkeley and Northwestern University. He is past president of the National Society of Newspaper Columnists and a former Fulbright scholar. He has won a few journalism awards, but would trade them all for a chance to avenge his 1994 “Jeopardy!” loss. Married to a terrific woman who has saved him from errors in writing and in life, he has three sons. At the U-T, Rowe writes profiles and features and is even paid to review beers, which hardly seems fair.

Local Beer Marches On: San Diego breweries announce expansion

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