TABLE OF CONTENTS - Minnesota Craft Brewer's Guild

21st Amendment Brewery - #40
San Francisco, CA | www.21st-amendment.com
In 2000, Nico Freccia and Shaun O’Sullivan founded the 21st Amendment Brewery in San Francisco’s historic South
Park neighborhood. Nico Freccia and Shaun 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.
Brewmaster: Shaun O’Sullivan* | Owner: Nico Freccia*
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Hell or High Watermelon Wheat [ 4.9 % ABV ]
We start by brewing a classic American wheat beer, which undergoes a
traditional secondary fermentation using fresh watermelon. A strawcolored,
refreshing beer with a kiss of watermelon aroma and flavor.
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Back in Black [ 6.8 % ABV ]
Inspired by Paul Revere’s midnight ride, we rebelled against the British
style IPA, embraced the more aggressive American version and then
recast it in bold, brave, defiant black. Our Black IPA is a Declaration
of Independence from the tyranny of the expected. Brewed like an
American IPA but with the addition of rich, dark malts, this beer has all
the flavor and hop character you expect with a smooth, mellow finish.
Voted one of the 25 Best Beers on Earth in Men’s Journal Magazine.
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Hop Crisis [ 9.7 % ABV | 94 IBU’s ]
The name is a tribute to the hop shortage a few years ago. A imperial
IPA aged in oak using Columbus, Centennial and cascades as the
bittering hops and dry hopping with Simcoe, Ahtanum, Amarillo, and
Cascades.
++ Sign up for the Pedal Pub 2 Seminar at 1:45 featuring Brewmaster
Shaun O'Sullivan!
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