![]() ![]() Still very active in the homebrew community, he now served that community from the supplier side. You mind if we talk?’ And I said, ‘Are you serious!?’ He interviewed me during class break, and the job was mine if I wanted it.”Īnd so Cataulin joined the retail side of Home Brew Mart in October 2004. “He came up to me one night, like, ‘I saw your application. “Through QUAFF, I got signed up for the BJCP judging class that Colby also happened to be attending,” Cataulin says. ![]() “I interviewed him right as he was getting his BJCP certification.” “I met George at a BJCP class,” Chandler says. It’s the place that started it all in 1996. The facility is also home to the original Ballast Point brewhouse. He’s now the senior homebrew advisor at Ballast Point’s Home Brew Mart location, one of the oldest homebrew shops in the county. “We finally met, and we became friends over beer,” Cataulin says. George Cataulin… Who is this guy? Who is George Cataulin? We didn’t know each other, and we were in the same homebrew club.” “Now, I didn’t know George, but we’d always get the competition results and I would see his name among the winners. “As a homebrewer, I entered into a lot of competitions as a member of Quality Ale and Fermentation Fraternity (QUAFF),” he remembers. It was fun, which is why we’re mostly staying out of the way below, letting the people involved tell the story as they remember it, a pseudo-oral-history of one of the best beers ever made. At least one of the interviewees was very drunk when he talked to us. Then we called some folks who have sold the beer over the years, and emailed some others. To tell its story, we rounded up a few of the people who created the beer, got them together in a room drinking, and asked some questions. There are myriad factors at play contributing to this meteoric rise, but a major part of what this company has accomplished can be traced back and attributed to a beer called Sculpin. Ballast Point beers are available in bottles and cans on shelves all across the country-and they’ll be in all 50 states by the end of this year. Expect the ramping to continue in light of last fall’s $1 billion acquisition by Constellation Brands. Now, they’ve ramped up production exponentially. From Barons to Barrels with Captain PabstĪt first, their beers were only available in San Diego County on draft-and in very limited supply at that.Message in a Bottle with Brewery Ommegang.Beer is Labor with East Brother Beer Co.Let Go or Get Dragged by Jerard Fagerberg.Ferments at Low Temps by Stephanie Byce.
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