21st Amendment Brewery / トゥエニーファーストアメンドメント醸造所
人々の自由、権利、クラフト精神を取り戻すきっかけとなった憲法修正第21条「21st Amendment」をブリュワリー名に掲げ、2000年に設立。 舌の肥えたベイ・エリアのビールファン達に受け入れられ、地元の新聞紙のアンケートでは「ベスト・ブリューパブ賞」「ベストハンバーガー賞」「ベストハッピー・アワー賞」をトリプル受賞。 地元の人々のみならず、街を訪れる観光客にも愛され、現在では全米でもトップレベルの規模を誇るブリュワリーに成長を遂げています。
In 2000, Nico Freccia and Shaun O’Sullivan founded the 21st Amendment Brewery in San Francisco’s historic South Park neighborhood. The popular brewpub is now at the heart of the new city center, just south of the financial district and only two blocks from the San Francisco Giants baseball park. In addition to rotating taps of multiple award-winning hand-crafted house beers, the pub has been voted “Best Brewpub”, “Best Burger” and “Best Happy Hour” by the San Francisco press.
Freccia and O’Sullivan met in early 1995 in San Francisco. Both had just moved from southern California to the Bay area when they heard the calling of beer. O’Sullivan, a former photographer and paralegal, “traded his suits for boots and was saved by beer”. He moved to Berkeley and took a job as assistant brewer at the Triple Rock Brewery there. Freccia, a writer, actor and, by extension, restaurant professional, was also an avid homebrewer. Frustrated with the lack of beer culture in the L.A. area, he moved to San Francisco and began writing for the Celebrator Beer News, the west’s largest beer publication. Freccia and O’Sullivan met, became friends and, while sitting together in a summer class on brewing science at UC Davis, hatched their plan for what would become the 21st Amendment.