For the second time in four years, Ballast Point — a San Diego craft beer pioneer that became one of the area’s largest breweries — has been sold. Kings & Convicts Brewing Co., a tiny Illinois firm, ...

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 ...

A sprawling Ballast Point brewpub in Chicago’s trendy West Loop neighborhood never made much sense. And now, less than three years later, it is gone for good. Ballast Point owner Brendan Watters said ...

CHICAGO — Tiny suburban Chicago brewery Kings & Convicts stunned the beer industry Tuesday afternoon by announcing the acquisition of California’s legendary Ballast Point Brewing. Terms were not ...