Barrel & Stave Pour House opens in Vista, with brewery hall CoLab on the way

A group of people celebrating with a toast. The people cheers their glasses of beer (pints of beer) together

Feb. 11, 2021 9:30 AM PT

Barrel & Stave Pour House, a Fullerton-based brewery, opened its first San Diego County tap room last week in the former Mother Earth Brewing tap room in downtown Vista.

The new tap room at 206 Main St. has 40 taps serving its own beers as well as wine, seltzer, kombucha and more. The room has a large event space for private parties and live music and will work with nearby restaurants to serve food onsite.

Barrel & Stave will also be one of the local brewers taking part in Co-Lab Vista, a two-story brewery hall that will feature several brewery booths, food vendors, games and indoor and outdoor seating areas. It is scheduled to open in March at 2129 Industrial Court in Vista. Visit barrelandstave.com.

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Pam Kragen

Pam Kragen is the arts and entertainment editor, as well as the chief theater, dining and opera critic, for the San Diego Union-Tribune. She joined the Union-Tribune staff in October 2012 after 27 years at the North County Times, where she served as the Arts & Features Editor, as well as the paper’s longtime arts writer and theater and opera critic. She is the co-founder of the San Diego Theatre Critics Circle. She holds a bachelor of arts degree in journalism from San Diego State University and completed fellowships in theater criticism at the University of Southern California and opera-classical music criticism at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. And in 2022, she was chosen as one of the fellows in the prestigious National Critics Institute, run by the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center in Waterf, Conn.