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On the cover: QUAFF member Tom Kelly brewing an ESB. Brewing system: B3 sculpture


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Join the Club Continued from Page 1


started last year. This year’s Spring Fling was held May 13th and 14th at Lake Morena out in Campo.


Homebrewing is a fun and rewarding hobby, and being a member of a homebrew club only enhances the enjoyment of the hobby. If you are a homebrewer and don’t belong to a club, check them out and see what you are missing.


Big Brew Day - May 7th, 2011


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Sweet Sixteen Month of the homebrewer


This issue is our nod to the craft of homebrewing. With the 2011 American Homebrew- ers Association National Homebrewers Conference in town this month, we figured the timing was right. Thank you to everyone that shared their time and experience with us to help make this issue awesome.


Four more


This month marks our expansion into 16 pages. It’s a big move that we didn’t make lightly, but there was just no way we could fit everything necessary into 12 pages. We’re also printing more. This month we printed 9000 issues and are delivering to 113 loca- tions. Thank you for reading!


Fresh faces


Part and parcel with our expanded page count is new advertising. We can afford to ex- pand to 16 pages and print more issues because our advertisers have placed their faith in us. If you’d like to help us survive, please support our advertisers. With some of our ads you can save up to 20% on your tab. Tell ‘em West Coaster sent you!


Thank you! We’re very grateful to PubQuest for giving us a great map over the past few months. Our in-house design guru, Josh, wanted a chance to make a new map. He’s done great work for us so far with westcoastersd.com, so we gave him a shot. Check out the new map on the the last page.


Salud,


Photo by Jered Greenwald


Local homebrew club QUAFF gathered at award-winning homebrewer Paul Sangster’s house to join in on a world-wide toast to Big Brew Day at 9am PST (pictured). Straight from the American Homebrewers Association (AHA) website: “In 1988, May 7th was announced before Congress as National Homebrew Day. The American Homebrewers Association created AHA Big Brew as an annual event to celebrate National Homebrew Day around the world. AHA Big Brew is held each year on the first Saturday in May [...] AHA Big Brew is about: home- brewers getting together all over the world to share their love for the hobby.” The club received 100 gallons of wort (unhopped and pre-boiled) from Mother Earth Brew Co. in Vista. From this, nine brewers (out of many more brewing that day) created more than 80 gallons of finished IPAs, the sole difference being the hop schedules and in a couple cases the hop varieties used. Club members were doing whirlpool hop additions, hopback additions, traditional flavoring and aroma additions, etc. The final beers will be served at the Beer Judge Certification Program (BJCP) reception which takes place the day before the National Home- brewers Conference (NHC) commences. The judges will evaluate how different addition timings and techniques affect the final flavors and aromas in the beers.


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