Industry Alcoholic beverage Products Beer | Founded 2000 Website 21st-amendment.com | |
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Headquarters 563 2nd St.
San Francisco, California, USA Owner Nico Freccia
Shaun O'Sullivan | ||
21st Amendment Brewery is a restaurant and brewery located in the South Park neighborhood of San Francisco, California, two blocks from AT&T Park. The brewery's name refers to the 21st Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which ended Prohibition.
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History
The brewery was founded in August 2000 by Nico Freccia and Shaun O’Sullivan. O’Sullivan had previously worked as an assistant brewer at Triple Rock Brewery & Alehouse in Berkeley, 20 Tank Brewery and Steelhead Brewing in San Francisco.
The San Francisco Business Times wrote that it "made a name for itself as a local brewery and restaurant where SoMa techies could lunch and Giants fans could gather before a game." It has been voted "Best Brewpub", "Best Burger" and "Best Happy Hour" by the San Francisco Press.
Prior to 2015, 21st Amendment's retail beers were canned in Cold Spring, Minnesota. In 2012, 21st Amendment planned to case 45,000 barrels of beer, up from 28,000 in 2011. In 2014, plans were announced to open a production facility and tasting room in San Leandro, California. That year, the company was the fiftieth top selling craft brewery in the US.
Beers
21st Amendment's slogan, "Celebrate the right to be original," is displayed on many of their cans, 6-pack and 4-pack carriers, posters, merchandise and web site.
They brew and can several year-round beers including Brew Free! Or Die IPA, Down To Earth session IPA, Back in Black black IPA; seasonal beers including Hell or High Watermelon wheat, Sneak Attack saison and Fireside Chat winter spiced ale; and limited-offering Insurrection Series beers including Hop Crisis imperial IPA, Monks Blood Belgian-style dark ale, Marooned on Hog Island oyster stout, and He Said Belgian Tripel/He Said Baltic Porter. They also offer a rotating assortment of beers that are available on tap only.