2 years after Ballast Point deal, Kings & Convicts Brewing abandons Wisconsin plans to instead sink its roots in San Diego

Kings & Convicts Brewing, the tiny north suburban operation whose founder stunned the beer world in late 2019 by buying the famed Ballast Point brewery, is scrapping a plan to build a new headquarters in southern Wisconsin and heading instead to Ballast Point’s longtime home of San Diego...

...Kings & Convicts broke ground in 2019 on what was to be a 50,000-square-foot production brewery in Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin, about 5 miles north of the Illinois border. The project was not completed, and the deal between the brewery and the land’s developer dissolved...