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Purciel’s jump into professional brew- ing wasn’t by accident. An avid home- brewer and member of the North County Homebrewers Association, once the idea was conceived to open a brewery Purciel decided to test himself and his beers before opening his wallet. He success- fully entered and won a homebrewing competition in every state in the union, except Oregon. Now, with five core beers and a team of nine people – OAW is fo- cused on expanding their draft accounts beyond Northern San Diego County. Recently, OAW hired a new San Diego sales representative to help them with this goal. (The furthest south we’ve seen OAW brews has been at Village Pizzeria in Coronado.) On the horizon is a bot- tling line, which is currently being built in Seattle. Also coming up is the release of their barrel-aged beers, which are cur- rently aging in bourbon and chardonnay barrels.
Purciel, Thomas, and OAW were fea- tured on the business-developing reality show Bloomberg’s The Mentor last year. Purciel and Thomas flew out to Boston to meet Jim Koch, the CEO of Boston Beer Company, where they got some beer sage advice: grow slowly and responsibly. Watch the episode online @ bloomberg.
com/tv/shows/the-mentor OAW’s devoted and slightly fa- natical followers make for a party every Thursday night – come check it out for yourself. There’s free street tacos at the weekly Brewer’s Thursday, and on Octo- ber 22nd OAW will celebrate Oktoberfest with a release of their Oktoberfest beer (brewed with Munich grain as well as Willamette and Millenium hops) and Big Ru, which is a memorial beer brewed for Brewmaster Purciel’s late canine friend, Rudy. The OAW Oktoberfest celebration also includes a chicken wing cook-off competition; contestants get 2 lbs of chicken wings and two days to prep the meat. Entries will be judged and win- ners selected by a panel of judges at the Oktoberfest celebration. For $20, you’ll get a commemorative OAW Oktoberfest t-shirt and a pint glass. Each and every OAW pint glass serves as a coupon, so bring the pint glass in to the brewery for a dollar off any beer. Party proceeds will be donated to the armed forces. This is one part of our ongoing web series “Brewery Spotlight.” Each week, we interview a different brewery and write about it on our website. To read all of the other Brewery Spotlights, please visit our website
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Each Oceanside Ale Works glass is a coupon. Bring in your OAW glass and receive $1 off any beer in the house.
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