{"id":450831,"date":"2026-09-02T07:50:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T07:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/450831\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T07:50:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T07:50:17","slug":"layoffs-hit-former-stone-brewing-employees-as-production-leaves-escondido","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/450831\/","title":{"rendered":"Layoffs Hit Former Stone Brewing Employees As Production Leaves Escondido"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The closures come after Sapporo USA sold Stone Brewing to Firestone Walker Brewing Co. and Duvel Moortgat USA in a deal completed May 15, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/story\/2026-08-21\/stone-brewing-bumble-bee-foods-layoffs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Los Angeles Times<\/a> reported. The new owners plan to move beer production to breweries in Paso Robles and Kansas City, Missouri.<\/p>\n<p>The deal did not include Sapporo USA&#8217;s Stone-branded facilities in Escondido, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsandiego.com\/news\/local\/sapporo-usa-to-wind-down-stone-brewing-branded-operations-in-escondido\/4065413\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">NBC 7 San Diego<\/a> reported. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The closures come after Sapporo USA sold Stone Brewing to Firestone Walker Brewing Co. and Duvel Moortgat USA&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":450832,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[74,76,75],"class_list":["post-450831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=450831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/450832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}