Just a few years ago, JuneShine was one of San Diego's loudest hometown success stories. The company proudly marketed itself as a San Diego-born craft beverage brand, raised tens of millions of dollars to expand local production, purchased the former Ballast Point brewery in Scripps Ranch, promised to hire more employees, opened tasting rooms, and publicly discussed ambitious plans to expand its brick-and-mortar footprint across the country. Now, nearly all of that physical infrastructure has disappeared.
Less than five months after announcing it would permanently shut down brewing operations in San Diego, outsource manufacturing, eliminate local production jobs and sell its flagship brewery, JuneShine has announced it will permanently close its final two company-owned tasting rooms, leaving the brand with no known company-operated public locations anywhere in the United States.
In a statement posted Sunday on social media, JuneShine announced its Scripps Ranch and Santa Monica tasting rooms will permanently close following business on August 28.
"There's no easy way to say this: our beloved Santa Monica and Scripps Ranch tasting rooms are closing," the company wrote. "This was certainly not a decision that came easy, but the right one for what's next."
The company thanked customers for years of support and encouraged fans to visit during what it called "The Last Splash," while emphasizing that its beverages will continue to be sold through retailers, grocery stores and bars.
The announcement represents another dramatic reversal for a company that spent years promoting its San Diego identity as one of its greatest strengths.
Founded in 2018 by University of San Diego classmates Greg Serrao and Forrest Dein, JuneShine launched inside Brewery Igniter in North Park, opening its first tasting room at 3052 El Cajon Boulevard while positioning itself as California's first organic hard kombucha brewery.
Growth came quickly.
In 2019, JuneShine acquired the former Ballast Point Brewing headquarters in Scripps Ranch, transforming the roughly 30,000-square-foot facility into its flagship brewery and tasting room. The acquisition dramatically expanded the company's brewing capacity and symbolized its ambitions to become a national beverage company while maintaining manufacturing in San Diego.
The company also announced plans to relocate its original North Park tasting room into a larger approximately 2,000-square-foot space at The Jackson development on 30th Street. Although the original location eventually closed, the new tasting room never opened.
By 2021, JuneShine had become one of San Diego's fastest-growing beverage startups, raising $24 million in funding led by Amberstone Ventures and Litani Ventures. Company executives said the investment would be used to expand production at its Scripps Ranch brewery, hire additional employees, increase marketing efforts and continue building the company around San Diego. Serrao told the San Diego Union-Tribune at the time that JuneShine had been "really aggressive about building an organization that is bigger than our business and then growing into that business."
The following year, the founders spoke publicly about producing more than one million cases annually, expanding their ready-to-drink cocktail business nationwide and opening additional tasting rooms beyond California. They described JuneShine as evolving from a hard kombucha producer into a broader "better-for-you" beverage platform and announced the company's first East Coast taproom in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, complete with local brewing equipment intended to create neighborhood-exclusive beers and collaborations with New York breweries.
That optimism proved short-lived.
The Brooklyn tasting room quietly closed in March 2024 after roughly two years in operation.
Earlier this year, JuneShine confirmed to SanDiegoVille that it would permanently cease brewing operations in San Diego, transition all production to third-party contract manufacturers, eliminate local production jobs and place its former Ballast Point brewery up for sale.
The company described the move as a transition to a "horizontal production model" designed to improve efficiency and profitability while allowing it to focus on product development and brand building rather than brewing.
Now, with the closure of its final tasting rooms, JuneShine appears to have fully completed that transformation.
Rather than operating breweries and hospitality venues, the company is becoming primarily a nationally distributed beverage brand whose products are manufactured by outside partners.
The closures also mark the end of JuneShine's last remaining public spaces where customers could experience the brand in person—an approach the company once viewed as central to its long-term strategy.
Taken together, JuneShine has now closed its original North Park tasting room, abandoned plans for its replacement, shuttered its Brooklyn location, ended brewing operations in San Diego, listed its Scripps Ranch brewery for sale, and will soon close its remaining California tasting rooms.
What remains is the brand itself.
"JuneShine isn't going anywhere," the company wrote in Sunday's announcement. "You'll still find us on shelves, at your favorite watering holes, and out in the real world."
SanDiegoVille has contacted JuneShine seeking comment regarding the latest closures, whether additional employees will be affected, and whether the company intends to maintain any physical presence in San Diego going forward. This article will be updated if a response is received.
JuneShine's Scripps Ranch tasting room is located at 10051 Old Grove Road in San Diego. Its Santa Monica tasting room is located at 2914 Main Street in Santa Monica. Both locations are scheduled to permanently close following business on August 28.
For more information, visit juneshine.com.
Originally published on August 3, 2026.
