Question: San Diego County, California has been called "the Craft Beer Capital of America.", San Diego County breweries like Stone Brewing Co., a brewery headquartered in Escondido, California, founded in which year?
Context: Beer Wars is a 2009 documentary film about the American beer industry.  In particular, it covers the differences between large corporate breweries, namely Anheuser-Busch, the Miller Brewing Company, and the Coors Brewing Company opposed to smaller breweries like Dogfish Head Brewery, Moonshot 69, Yuengling, Stone Brewing Co., and other producers of craft beer.  Also covered is how advertising and lobbyists are used to control the beer market, implying that these things harm competition and consumer choice. Christian Moerlein Brewing Co. is a private beer company that began production in 1853 in Cincinnati, Ohio by German immigrant Christian Moerlein.  Before closing its doors in 1919 as result of prohibition, Christian Moerlein was among the ten largest American breweries by volume.  In 1981, the brand was revived by the Hudepohl Brewing Company as a "better beer" a precursor to the current craft beer category and is considered a pioneer craft beer of today's craft beer movement.  In 1999, Hudepohl-Schoenling Brewing Co. sold out to a group of out-of-town owners, a sale that included the famed Christian Moerlein craft beer brand.  In 2004, Greg Hardman a Cincinnati resident purchased Christian Moerlein, as well as 65 other historic Cincinnati brands, returning local ownership to Cincinnati in a move that included a plan to return Cincinnati's grand brewing traditions.  The four phase plan was, 1) return the local ownership of Cincinnati's great beer brands to Cincinnati; 2) build their base of sales to; 3) open local brewing operations in the heart of Cincinnati's historic Brewery District and; 4) open a World-class Moerlein Lager House on the banks of the Ohio River to act as a signal that beer is back in Cincinnati. Stone Brewing is a brewery headquartered in Escondido, California, USA.  Founded in 1996 in San Marcos, California, it is the largest brewery in Southern California.  Based on 2016 sales volume it is the ninth largest craft brewery in the United States. Port Brewing Company is a craft brewery headquartered in San Marcos, California.  It was founded in 2006 in San Marcos, San Diego County, California.  The brewery also produces beers under the name Lost Abbey Brewing. The San Diego County District Attorney is the elected district attorney for San Diego County, California.  This office is responsible for the prosecution of both felony and misdemeanor violations of California state law that occur within the jurisdiction of San Diego County, California.  Courts within their jurisdiction includes the San Diego Superior Court, the California Court of Appeal for the Fourth District, and the California Supreme Court.  Federal law violations are prosecuted by the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of California.  The current District Attorney (since 2003) is Bonnie Dumanis.  Her predecessor was Paul Pfingst. The San Diego Mountain Rescue Team (SDMRT) is an all-volunteer organization located in San Diego County, California operating under the jurisdiction of the San Diego County Sheriff's Department.  With approximately seventy active members, SDMRT responds to calls at any time to search for and rescue missing, injured or stranded persons in San Diego County and, through mutual-aid requests, in other counties within the state of California.  SDMRT is a fully accredited member of the international Mountain Rescue Association as well as an accredited Type I Mountain Search and Rescue Team.  SDMRT routinely works with the San Diego Sheriff's Office Search and Rescue Bureau and San Diego's Aerial Support to Regional Enforcement Agencies (ASTREA) on operations within the county.  On operations outside of San Diego County, SDMRT works under the particular agency having jurisdiction for the region in question. Karl Strauss Brewing Company is a San Diego, California-based craft brewery with eleven brewpub locations across Southern California and an onsite tasting room at their main brewery in the Pacific Beach neighborhood of San Diego.  Besides being available at its own brewpubs the company’s beers are distributed across all of California.  Karl Strauss is the oldest surviving brewery in San Diego County, having been founded in 1989, and is credited with launching the county's rise to prominence in the craft brewing industry.  Based on 2016 sales volume it is the 47th largest brewery in the United States.  In 2016 Karl Strauss was declared the Mid-Size Brewery of the Year at the Great American Beer Festival. San Diego County Credit Union (SDCCU) is San Diego's largest locally owned financial institution.  This credit union is based in San Diego, California.  SDCCU was founded in 1938 as San Diego County Employees Credit Union and was formed to provide for the financial needs of local county government employees.  During the 1970s, San Diego County Employees Credit Union changed its name to San Diego County Credit Union and expanded its membership to include all San Diegans.  Today, SDCCU is open to everyone living or working in San Diego, Riverside and Orange counties. San Diego County, California has been called "the Craft Beer Capital of America."  As of 2016 the county was home to 125 licensed craft breweries - the most of any region in the United States.  Based on 2016 sales volume, three San Diego County breweries - Stone, Green Flash, and Karl Strauss - rank among the 50 largest craft brewers in the United States.  San Diego County brewers pioneered the specialty beer style known as Double India Pale Ale (Double IPA), sometimes called San Diego Pale Ale.  Its beer culture is a draw for tourism, particularly during major festivals such as San Diego Beer Week and the San Diego International Beer Competition.  San Diego County breweries like Stone Brewing Co., AleSmith Brewing Company and Ballast Point Brewing Company are consistently rated among the top breweries in the world. Ballast Point Brewing & Spirits Company is an American brewery founded in 1996 by Jack White in San Diego, California.  Ballast Point Brewing Co. started in the back of Home Brew Mart, a homebrew supply store White founded in 1992.  As of 2015, it was the second largest brewer in San Diego County and the 17th largest brewery in the country based on sales volume.  The company's main production facility is in Miramar.  It also has brewery locations in San Diego's Little Italy and Scripps Ranch neighborhoods, as well as its original Home Brew Mart location in San Diego's Linda Vista neighborhood.
Answer: 1996