{"id":9333,"date":"2014-02-26T11:16:01","date_gmt":"2014-02-26T19:16:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/?p=9333"},"modified":"2014-02-26T12:05:15","modified_gmt":"2014-02-26T20:05:15","slug":"americas-finest-city-competition-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/2014\/02\/26\/americas-finest-city-competition-winners\/","title":{"rendered":"America&#8217;s Finest City Competition Winners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Screenshot_2014-02-26-10-49-06_1.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-9341\" alt=\"Screenshot_2014-02-26-10-49-06_1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Screenshot_2014-02-26-10-49-06_1.jpg?resize=275%2C387&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"275\" height=\"387\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Screenshot_2014-02-26-10-49-06_1.jpg?resize=727%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 727w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Screenshot_2014-02-26-10-49-06_1.jpg?resize=213%2C300&amp;ssl=1 213w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Screenshot_2014-02-26-10-49-06_1.jpg?w=1080&amp;ssl=1 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 275px) 100vw, 275px\" \/><\/a>Over three sessions this past weekend 555 beers were judged for the annual America&#8217;s Finest City homebrew competition by local club QUAFF. Scoring the beers were some serious heavyweights, including AleSmith founder Skip Virgilio, current AleSmith owner and BJCP Grand Master level 1 judge Peter Zien, Kelsey McNair of the upcoming North Park Beer Co., Paul Sangster, current co-owner at Rip Current Brewing and former Ninkasi Award winner (aka top national homebrewer), among many other accomplished brewers and beer judges.<\/p>\n<p>Last night the awards were presented at Randy Jones BBQ in Hazard Center. You can view the full PDF of winners <a href=\"http:\/\/www.quaff.org\/afc-2014-results\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>; top honors included Peter Perrecone&#8217;s Best of Show Ruten Tuten Raspberry Fruit Lambic (watch for more of Perrecone&#8217;s creations at brewery-in-planning \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.twitter.com\/ToolboxBrewing\" target=\"_blank\">Toolbox Brewing<\/a>), Bob Mac Kay&#8217;s Best of Show Cyser in the mead and cider category, and Brian Trout&#8217;s designation as &#8220;Brewing Machine&#8221; thanks to six medals &#8212; four gold, one silver, and one bronze. He sits atop the homebrewer of the year\u00a0leaderboard with 29 points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over three sessions this past weekend 555 beers were judged for the annual America&#8217;s Finest City homebrew competition by local club QUAFF. Scoring the beers were some serious heavyweights, including AleSmith founder Skip Virgilio, current AleSmith owner and BJCP Grand Master level 1 judge Peter Zien, Kelsey McNair of the upcoming North Park Beer Co., [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9333","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-san-diego-beer-beverage-news","7":"entry","8":"has-post-thumbnail"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","wps_subtitle":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdtr4y-2qx","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}