Groundswell Brewing Company

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Our Beer

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Established in November 2013, Groundswell Brewing Company focuses on high-quality, well-balanced beer with nuanced flavor. Our beers are often lower in alcohol content to highlight flavors. This means our beer pairs well with food, and plays well with a San Diego lifestyle. It can be enjoyed playing sports, during a day at the beach, and with friends and family. We do the hoppy, dank thing too…but overall, our portfolio of beers is balanced.

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We love beer, and we want you to love beer too. Our beer philosophy is simple: beer is social.

We’ve met some great people while drinking beer, and the San Diego beer community is the finest in the land. Our beer is designed to be sessionable, flavorful, and with a lot of variety. Enjoy a few beers with good people and it is a good day.

Beer Portfolio

Our core beers represent a variety of beer styles, all with focus on aroma, mouthfeel, and flavor. These beers are available year-round in the taproom and for growler fill. You will also find these beers in a number of restaurant and craft beer locations throughout Southern California. We announce styles on tap and new beers on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.

Our seasonal brews are available in limited quantity in the tasting room with occasional distribution.

Tasting Room

We built Groundswell with a sense of community in mind. Our tasting rooms are designed to reflect that. We welcome dogs, kids….the in-laws (all must be well behaved, and for safety keep the dogs on leash.)

Sit at the bar top and chat up our beer tenders or enjoy community couches/benches with electrical outlets (AKA: “the remote office”), large community tables, and patio areas. We have board games, large activity games, and cards to loan.

Our tasting rooms are designed with TV’s, and often show sports, movies, but we encourage you to get to know your neighbors. We think beer in social, and we think you’ll enjoy getting to know the folks in the tasting room. We do!

We don’t have a kitchen (yet, hint, hint), but we sell snacks. We often have food trucks in the yard. We’ll post the schedule on the board in the tasting rooms and on social media. You are always welcome to bring your own too.

Grantville Tasting Room

Grantville Tasting Room

 

Santee Tasting Room

Santee Tasting Room

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About Us

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Founding

Groundswell Brewing Company was founded in our living room with a small group of friends.

Kevin had been home-brewing for about 25 years and taking up all the space in the garage with his growing array of brew equipment. He finally agreed to move it to a large shed in the backyard, but then bought a commercial, one-barrel system that HAD to go somewhere other than the shed or the garage.

Today, Groundswell is a team of passionate and skilled craft brew lovers. Together, this team advances a beer philosophy of high-quality and flavor-filled beers that enhance the San Diego lifestyle and seek to build community.

We are huge advocates of craft beer. If you are looking to try craft beer, we’d love to be your first. We just want you to drink craft. Craft is craft. Drink it here. Drink it there. Drink it anywhere. (With apologies to Dr. Seuss.)

 

Operations

Brewing operations are centrally located in Santee, California in an 11,500 square foot industrial space with a 30-barrel brewhouse and a 1,800 square foot tasting room. In its current configuration, this space can brew 10,000 barrels per year, and has space to grow to more than 30,000 barrels per year.

Additionally, Groundswell has two auxiliary tasting rooms. “OG” Groundswell, in the Grantville community of San Diego, is the original brew facility (home to the one barrel system Kevin bought in 2012), but today serves only as a tasting room. In November, 2017 we opened another auxiliary tasting room in downtown (Third Avenue) Chula Vista, California.

Contact

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Grantville (San Diego) Tasting Room 
6304 Riverdale Street
San Diego CA 92120
619-795-BEER

Grantville Tasting Room Hours
Monday – Tuesday: closed
Wednesday -Thursday: 3 – 9 PM
Friday – Saturday: 12 – 10:00 PM
Sunday: 12 – 9 PM

Santee Brewery and Tasting Room
10151 Prospect Avenue
Santee CA 92071
619-749- 9123

Santee Tasting Room Hours
Monday – Tuesday: closed
Wednesday – Thursday: 3 – 9 PM
Friday – Saturday: 12 -10 PM
Sunday: 12 – 9 PM

Chula Vista Tasting Room
258 Third Avenue
Chula Vista CA 91910
619-934-7676

Chula Vista Tasting Room Hours
Monday – Tuesday: closed
Wednesday – Thursday: 3 – 9 PM

Friday – Saturday: 12  – 10 PM
Sunday: 12 – 9 PM

President:
Kevin Rhodes

Head Brewer:
Fred Hollman

Events and Donation Requests:
Christianne Penunuri

Grantville Tasting Room

  • Tuesday & Friday: 3-7 PM
  • Chula Vista Tasting Room
  • Thursday - Saturday: 4-10 PM
  • Sunday: 1-7 PM
  • Santee Tasting Room & Brewery
  • Wednesday & Saturday: 2-6 PM

Address & Phone

  • 6304 Riverdale Street
  • San Diego, CA 92120
  • (619) 795-BEER
  • groundswellbrew@gmail.com

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Groundswell Brewing Company
6304 Riverdale Street
San Diego, CA 92120
(619) 795-BEER



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Our thanks to Nick Jose "Brewcrawler" for the photos.

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