San Diego-based homebrew club QUAFF held their monthly meeting at Randy Jones All American Sports Grill in Hazard Center on Tuesday night. The meeting doubled as an awards ceremony for the 2011 AFC (America’s Finest City) Competition held February 18th & 19th. This year marked the biggest AFC ever thanks to 502 entries. Winners came from 16 different homebrew clubs, with QUAFF standing tall on their home turf, taking 41 medals over 23 categories of beer and 5 categories of cider & mead. In the specialty beer category, North Park Beer Co.‘s Kelsey McNair won for his German Pilsner brewed with 20% rye, and as an added bonus, will be brewing the beer with Hess Brewing for the AHA National Homebrewers Conference Pro/Am in June. Finally, it was hometown hero Paul Sangster who nabbed the Jim Howard Memorial Best of Show Beer with his “Tri-Paul-Bock” Eisbock. Paul also won the Brewing Machine Award, having amassed the most amount of points. Well done, San Diego!
