{"id":18037,"date":"2016-04-30T19:09:27","date_gmt":"2016-05-01T02:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/69.46.6.243\/?p=18037"},"modified":"2016-04-30T19:09:27","modified_gmt":"2016-05-01T02:09:27","slug":"21st-amendment-brewery-goes-wild-scenic-with-o-a-r-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=18037","title":{"rendered":"21st Amendment Brewery Goes Wild & Scenic With O.A.R.S"},"content":{"rendered":"

Angels Camp, CA…A surfer, a punk photographer, a paralegal and finally a brewmaster, Shaun O\u2019Sullivan has lived many lives. Now running the wildly successful San Francisco-based 21st Amendment Brewery<\/a>, O\u2019Sullivan has found a new challenge in bringing his wares on river trips. We sat down with O\u2019Sullivan at his new San Leandro brewing location to talk about getting hooked on rafting, how he was inspired by the Wild & Scenic Tuolumne River<\/a>, and which beer goes best with late night campfires.<\/p>\n

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What\u2019s 21st Amendment known for?<\/strong><\/p>\n

We have a saying that we \u201ccelebrate the right to be original.\u201d It starts with the beer and our personalities. We created the Hell or High Watermelon wheat beer and when it first came out people heard it and went, \u201cHuh?\u201d Now it\u2019s huge. We also made a Session IPA before session IPAs were popular. And in 2008, we started packaging our beer in cans. Nobody was really doing that back then. Now everybody\u2019s doing it.<\/p>\n

\"Shaun<\/a><\/p>\n

And cans are a no-brainer for the river.\u00a0<\/strong>Was the Tuolumne River Craft Beer Tasting your first rafting trip?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yeah, I was scared to death. I was afraid of falling in \u2013 I think I actually did fall in. It was exhilarating going through the rapids, but there was also the reflective time in camp; eating great meals, making new friends, getting to know people. My first time absolutely surprised me.<\/p>\n

What surprised you the most?<\/strong><\/p>\n

How beautiful it was. There\u2019s a reason it\u2019s called a \u201cWild and Scenic\u201d river. My mom had just died a couple weeks before, so I was having this amazing experience, but also having these reflective moments. Now I\u2019m hooked.<\/p>\n

After several of these trips now, what have you learned?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Bring more beer than you think you need! Although we haven\u2019t ever run out, I panic. I get all my stuff together and I literally think to myself, \u201cI don\u2019t have enough!\u201d Then I just bring more. I just bring it all.<\/p>\n

\"Shaun<\/a><\/p>\n

What can people expect on a Craft Beer Tasting trip?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Chef Chip Roberts<\/a> [from the Arnold Pantry] and I will start communicating probably a month before the trip. He\u2019ll come up with a menu idea and I\u2019ll let him know what beer I have available for the trip and then he starts thinking about pairing those beers.<\/p>\n

The anticipation of the nighttime meal and beer consumption is always fun. People really get into it. We all become 21-year-olds on the trip. Everyone says, \u201cI can\u2019t wait to get a beer!\u201d \u00a0Hopefully you show up and you like craft beer and if you don\u2019t\u2026get on a\u00a0wine trip<\/a>.<\/p>\n

How do you choose the beers for a trip?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Really the \u201cEl Sully\u201d beer was designed for a trip like theTuolumne<\/a>; it\u2019s easy drinking, it\u2019s my favorite beer. It\u2019s 4.8% alcohol, with flaked maize in it to keep it dry and bright. But in large part it\u2019s driven by what we\u2019re making at the time. Sometimes I\u2019ll pull vintage beers out. I\u2019ve brought a beer called \u201cMonk\u2019s Blood,\u201d which is a dark Belgian with dried mission figs aged on oak and vanilla bean \u2013 a super complex beer with a great malt character to it and it\u2019s fruity and spicy. We usually pair it with dessert.<\/p>\n

One of the California guides, Eli, used to always say, \u201cWild and scenic!\u201d and he got me doing it so I made a beer called \u201cWild and Scenic.\u201d It\u2019s an English summer beer, with really refreshing English hops. That\u2019s something I\u2019m looking forward to bringing on the next trip.<\/p>\n

\"Shaun<\/a><\/p>\n

Is there typically a crowd favorite?<\/strong><\/p>\n

It amazes me what people respond to. I\u2019ll bring an 11.5% alcohol \u201cLower the Boom\u201d barley wine and there are people that love it. It just depends what you\u2019re into, what scratches that itch. I usually go for the IPAs and lighter beers, but around the campfire late at night when the guitar comes out, that barley wine looks pretty good!<\/p>\n

What do you love most about craft beer?<\/strong><\/p>\n

The sense of community. How people can sit around and dissect a beer, talk about where it came from and who brewed it. Beer is the common person\u2019s drink that anybody can enjoy. Beer really brings people together and the craft beer community is even tighter. The beer gets you here, but the community is what makes you stay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Angels Camp, CA…A surfer, a punk photographer, a paralegal and finally a brewmaster, Shaun O\u2019Sullivan has lived many lives. Now running the wildly successful San Francisco-based 21st Amendment Brewery, O\u2019Sullivan has found a new challenge in bringing his wares on river trips. We sat down with O\u2019Sullivan at his new San Leandro brewing location to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18039,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,10,19,20,4,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-advertising","category-angels-camp","category-entertainment","category-featured","category-life-style","category-news","last_archivepost"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/T.beer14-653x490-1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}