This craft brewery once sold for $1 billion. Its taproom in S.F.'s hottest neighborhood has closed

This San Diego-based craft brewery, once one of the country's largest breweries, has closed its taproom in San Francisco.
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Ballast Point Was Once Valued at $1 Billion. It Just Sold for a 'Surprisingly Low' Amount

Mike Pomranz has been covering craft beer for nearly two decades and trending food and beverage news for Food & Wine for 7 years. "Buy low; sell high." It's an obvious investing maxim but it bears ...
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Constellation Brands buys Ballast Point for $1 billion

SAN DIEGO (CNS) - Ballast Point Brewing & Spirits, one of San Diego's top craft beer producers, was acquired Monday by Constellation Brands for $1billion. Ballast Point, a nearly 20-year-old operation ...
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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 ...