Ballast Point Brewing Company is an American brewery founded in 1996 by Jack White in San Diego, California.

[5] In December 2019, Chicago-based brewery Kings and Convicts announced it was buying Ballast Point from Constellation for undisclosed terms.

Many of Home Brew Mart's customers went on to found breweries of their own, and the store has been credited with helping to launch San Diego County's reputation as a craft beer mecca.

[7][8] While White ran Home Brew Mart and dreamed of starting his own brewery, A'Hearn went off to the University of California, Davis to get a master brewer's certificate.

A'Hearn and Cherney developed a “back room” brewery behind the shop, and in 1996, Ballast Point Brewing was born.

By 2004, Ballast Point had outgrown its back room location and moved into a larger production brewery in Scripps Ranch.

In September 2013, Ballast Point added a third location: a brewery, tasting room, and restaurant in San Diego's Little Italy neighborhood, which functions as the company's laboratory for research and development.

The departures reportedly stemmed from disputes with the new owner, Constellation Brands, over the status of Ballast Point's distilled spirits operation, which was not part of the sale.

On June 12, 2017, Ballast Point opened its new East Coast Brewery and Tap Room in Daleville, part of Virginia's Roanoke Valley.

The facility began producing beer in September 2017, with the first keg of Grapefruit Sculpin being sent to Virginia governor Terry McAuliffe in Richmond.