![]() He worked as a producer for Cable News Network and as a corporate law clerk at a large New York law firm’s office in Los Angeles. Prior to brewing, Shaun was a photojournalist for a local weekly in Los Angeles shooting political and punk rock club photographs and was once offered a position in the kitchen at Chez Panisse in Berkeley. Shaun started his brewing beginnings at the Triple Rock Brewery in Berkeley, California and also in San Francisco at Steelhead Brewery and 20 Tank Brewery. He manages and oversees brewing operations and innovation. Shaun is the 21st Amendment Brewmaster and co-founder with Nico Freccia. At the 21st Amendment, they celebrate the culture of the great breweries of old, making unique, hand crafted beers, great food, and providing a comfortable, welcoming atmosphere that invites conversation, interaction and a sense of community. For 13 years, social interaction was largely driven underground, to the speakeasies, where regular citizens became a nation of outlaws.īut with the passage of the 21st Amendment, repealing Prohibition, we, as a society, were able to begin the slow climb back to reclaiming the essence of the neighborhood gathering place. In 1920, Prohibition wiped out this culture and put the “local” out of business. Places that provided something unique-hand crafted beer that was different at every brewery and that defined the taste of a neighborhood. Places for families to come together on weekends. Places to exchange ideas, debate politics and philosophy. They realized that the brewery captured the essence of the neighborhoods of San Francisco. ![]() When Freccia and O’Sullivan were researching old San Francisco breweries (trying to find a cool name for their new brewery), what really made an impact was the discovery that there were about 40 breweries operating just within the city limits of San Francisco. 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.Īround the turn of the 20th century, in the year 1900, there were thousands of small breweries operating across America. area, he moved to San Francisco and began writing for the Celebrator Beer News, the west’s largest beer publication. Frustrated with the lack of beer culture in the L.A. Freccia, a writer, actor and, by extension, restaurant professional, was also an avid homebrewer. ![]() He moved to Berkeley and took a job as assistant brewer at the Triple Rock Brewery there. O’Sullivan, a former photographer and paralegal, “traded his suits for boots and was saved by beer”. Both had just moved from southern California to the Bay area when they heard the calling of beer. 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.įreccia and O’Sullivan met in early 1995 in San Francisco. 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 2000, Nico Freccia and Shaun O’Sullivan founded the 21st Amendment Brewery in San Francisco’s historic South Park neighborhood.
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