PEOPLE, PLACES & THING
18-year homebrewer and Scripps Ranch resident Dan Drown, also known as Safety Dan, has worked all over the world engineering ways to prevent employee injury and illness. “The point is to get people to think about the consequences of their behaviors,” says Drown, who can literally walk into a room and point out the accidents waiting to happen. “I have a risk-based approach: what are the hazards and what am I doing to take care of them?” Drown now plies his trade on a consulting basis for local breweries Lightning, The Lost Abbey/Port Brewing and Ballast Point. Commonly encountered safety concerns in breweries include slips, trips, falls, thermal burns and the moving parts on the bottling line. “I wanted to get into the craft brewery business because I enjoy beer and brewing. It’s serious work but fun.” How does Drown know when his work is done? “When employees self-police their safe behavior and talk to co-workers about safety. I love to see that.”
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Swedish blogger Viktor Sjöberg provides an interesting perspective on the craft beer world through
sentencebeer.com, the blog he started with Jonas Lindgren in September of 2009. The site’s tagline? “One beer, one sentence.” Long or short, the beer photo-accompanied sentences give insight into a myriad of craft beers and the people behind them. “I try to think closely about what I choose to express and at times I aim to challenge what beer writing could/should be about. I also do lengthy interviews with interesting beer people,” said Sjöberg, whose interview with Pat McIlhenney of Alpine Beer Company was published last month in West Coaster. You can read the full, unabridged interview over on Sjöberg’s blog, dated September 1st. Although Sjöberg just recently relocated to San Luis Obispo, California with his wife Ashleah, you’ll find him in town for the tail end of SDBW, November 11-13. Buy him a beer!
Ryan Lamb is the t-shirt printer to the stars here in San Diego, with customers like The Lost Abbey/Port Brewing, Pizza Port, Mother Earth Brew Co., URGE Gastropub and Churchill’s Pub & Grille. Lamb’s dad bought the business from his brother about 20 years ago, and he took over the business for pops in 2003. “I first got acquainted with the craft beer world through The Lost Abbey/Port Brewing, our first industry customer,” explained Lamb, who names Wipeout IPA from Port Brewing as one of his favorite local beers. “I really enjoy working within the beer industry. The way the businesses collaborate is pretty amazing.” His business, Lamb Screen Printing, currently has eight employees and prints upwards of 8,000 t-shirts a day. They’ve also printed for No Fear, Rip Curl, Quiksilver, Spencers and Hot Topic as well as local high-end fashion companies.
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Native San Diegan artist Benjamin DeHart, best known to the beer world for his chalk artistry, has etched himself quite the local niche over the last three years. “My chalk art is currently featured in about 35 bars, restaurants and coffee shops all over San Diego,” said DeHart, whose clients include Sessions Public, PB Ale House, Union Kitchen & Tap, Ciro’s Pacific Beach, Sea Rocket Bistro, Mission Brewery, The Tipsy Crow and The Local—just to
Jim Christensen and brewery electrician partner Chad Bennett have been working in the San Diego beer scene since the mid- 90s. “We first started at White Labs and then through word-of-mouth got work at local breweries.” Jim and Chad maintain a satisfied list of local brewery clients, including Green Flash (“since their inception”), Mother Earth Brew Co., Karl Strauss, AleSmith, Ballast Point, Breakwater, and The Lost Abbey/Port Brewing. “Brewery owners have called at 2 or 3 in the morning saying, ‘Umm, my beer’s getting warm.’ Those calls take priority over everything,” insisted Christensen, who’s been on quite a few of these “beer rescue missions” over the years; and yes, he did reveal that bonuses for his successes do come in liquid form. Christensen’s company’s work can also be seen at beer-y local restaurants The High Dive, The Linkery and El Take It Easy.
name a few. “Mina from The Local was the first bar owner to ask me to do her chalkboards. I still worked for Trader Joes at the time – at the Point Loma store where she shops.” In the pipeline for DeHart is a graphic and web design firm that will offer the complete marketing package for businesses, but in the more near future you can see what DeHart Designs is all chalked up to be during a live demonstration/art show October 20th at Sea Rocket Bistro.
It is October aer all. And we are especially proud of Festivus, our Düssledorf Altbier, in which we celebrate some of the oldest (“Alt” in German) brewing traditions in the German Rhineland. We’re so proud of our altbier that we’re holding our own alternative to Oktoberfest—we call it OktoberHess. Join us Saturday, October 15 from noon-6pm. Food. Friends. Music. Beer. We may have an alter ego, but we’re single-minded about brewing great beer—no exceptions. No excuses.
7955 Silverton Ave. #1201, San Diego, CA (Off Miramar Road)
hessbrewing.com
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