Guadalupe Brewery is preparing to close its Vista tap house. In a Nov. 13 interview with The Coast News, co-owner Raúl Dejú said a farewell bash with live music is set for Friday, Nov. 20, and that the business at 631 S. Santa Fe Ave. will be closed by Dec. 1.
Those dates come from that single Coast News conversation, written by Jim Trageser. They have not been independently confirmed on the brewery’s own site. As of Nov. 13, guadalupebrewery.com was still branded Guadalupe Taphouse, still advertised private events in the historic Vista building, and still carried no closing notice. Dejú told The Coast News that the tap house is running limited hours, which he said are posted on its Instagram page; we were not able to read that account directly for this story. He also said the room may open a few more evenings after Nov. 20, but that the schedule is still in flux. “Closed by Dec. 1” is not the same thing as a promised last pour on Nov. 30.
Guadalupe Brewery’s last weeks in Vista
Raúl and Lisa Dejú, a husband-and-wife team, own the building as well as Guadalupe Brewery itself. They bought it in 2018 and spent a year renovating, pulling out a suspended ceiling to open a vaulted, A-frame dining room with original timbers from 1930. An open-air patio out back has given food trucks a place to serve guests. Guadalupe Brewery held the Vista tap house’s grand opening in December 2019, only a few months before the COVID-19 lockdowns.
The Coast News report did not name a band or a start time for the Nov. 20 bash, and we have not seen a lineup on the brewery’s site. Anyone hoping to say goodbye should check the Instagram hours Dejú pointed to, and should not assume Guadalupe Brewery will keep a regular calendar through the end of the month.
This is not the only recent goodbye on the same stretch of North County beer country. We covered Prohibition Brewing’s Vista shutdown earlier this month, and our Vista Breweries Guide already listed Guadalupe Taphouse in its “skipped: closed or unverified” section after the site’s hours page returned a 404. Our San Diego Brewery List still has the Vista tap house marked open; we are leaving that list alone until the closing is further confirmed. The wider contraction is laid out in our roundup of California craft brewery closings.
From Valle de Guadalupe to Carlsbad, then Vista
The couple’s beer story started south of the border. Dejú and a neighbor founded Cervecería Guadalupe at a winery in Francisco Zarco, Mexico, north of Ensenada, in the Valle de Guadalupe. After considering a move to Tijuana, Dejú and his wife bought out their partners and opened a Carlsbad brewery in 2014. The Coast News says they learned the city had recently tightened tasting-room permits, so they brewed in Carlsbad and poured the beer in Vista. We wrote about that Carlsbad chapter back in 2018, when Guadalupe Brewery appeared among the stops in our Hoppy Happenings in Carlsbad guide.
Dejú told The Coast News that Guadalupe Brewery closed the Carlsbad production facility last month — that is, in October 2026, relative to the Nov. 13 article — and has been renting space from other breweries to keep brewing its own recipes. The story did not give an exact Carlsbad street address or an exact October shutdown date, and we have not independently confirmed either one.
What may come next for the room
The Dejús would like to move the space toward more of a beer and wine bar, or maybe a restaurant, Dejú told The Coast News. His former day job as a product manager in software development fell through, and he is looking for new work. “If I have to move, that’s not going to happen,” he said of the shift to a dining room. If they do relocate, they would look to sell both the building and the business.
Until those next steps are clearer, the sure date on the calendar is the Nov. 20 closing bash. After that, Guadalupe Brewery’s remaining Vista evenings, if any, will be decided week by week.
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