California State University San Marcos. Cross-Cultural Center
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This oral history was made possible in collaboration with the Cross-Cultural Center and with generous funding from the Instructionally Related Activities fund.]]> Sara Sheikh-Arvizu]]> Michael De Maria]]> Aaron Williams]]> https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/]]> English]]> Orange County (Calif.)]]> San Marcos (Calif.)]]> Bagby Beer Company (Oceanside, Calif.)]]> Brewers -- California -- San Diego County]]> Brewing industry -- California -- History]]> Microbreweries -- California -- San Diego County]]>
Jeff and Dande Bagby are the founders and owners of Bagby Beer Company in Oceanside, CA. Holly Sweat is Publicist at Katalyst Public Relations.

Jeff Bagby’s role was as head brewer and leading the on-site Beerleaders brewing education program. Jeff’s brewery experience includes Stone Brewing, White Labs, and Oggi’s Pizza and Brewing. His last brewery before opening Bagby Beer was Pizza Port, leading brewing operations for the chain from the Carlsbad location. During his time at Pizza Port, he led the team to win notable awards and medals such as the World Beer Cup and the Great American Beer Festival’s brewery and brewer awards multiple times. He is one of the most awarded San Diego region brewers, notably garnering more GABF Alpha King Challenge awards for best hoppiest beer in the United States than anyone to date (2005, 2010 and 2011.) He left Pizza Port in 2011 to devote his energy to finding a site for a brewery/restaurant in the San Diego North County beach area. With the sale of Bagby’s to Green Cheek Beer, he remains as the brewer and continues to focus on lagers and traditional styles.

Dande Bagby worked as Director of Operations including marketing and customer experience. She designed much of the building. Her employment background includes the San Diego Zoological Society, education, environmental science, restaurant and craft beer bar management, and marketing and finance responsibilities for multimillion-dollar budgets at a Fortune 500 company. She remains active in the transition to Green Cheek Beer Company at this time.

In their 2018 interview, Jeff and Dande discuss their introduction to craft beer; homebrewing; introduction of craft beer to the region; Jeff’s entry into the profession in the late 1990s; challenges and responsibilities of founding and building a brewery; packaging and distribution; charity work; competitions, judging, and awards; consumer education. ]]> Jeff Bagby]]> Dande Bagby]]> Judith Downie]]> Holly Sweat]]> In copyright.]]> English]]> Oceanside (Calif.)]]> Arts education]]> Basket making]]> California State University San Marcos]]> Death and remembrance]]> Education -- Native Americans]]> Illustration of books]]> Luiseño Indians]]> Pablo Tac Elementary School (Oceanside, Calif.)]]> Valley Arts Festival (Oceanside, Calif.)]]> Women artists]]> Linda Kallas]]> Diania Caudell]]> In copyright]]> English]]> Oceanside (Calif.)]]> Home brewing -- California -- San Diego County]]> Quality Ale and Fermentation Fraternity (San Diego, Calif.)]]> Women brewers -- California -- San Diego County]]> Rich Link, Mary Anne Bixby and Greg Lorton are all early members of Quality Ale and Fermentation Fraternity (QUAFF), a San Diego area homebrewing group. In this interview, Link, Bixby, and Lorton discuss their introduction to craft beer, early home brewing experiences, QUAFF, various local breweries, mead, and womens’ participation in homebrewing. None have worked in the industry professionally, but all are certified beer judges and Lorton and Bixby also judge mead competitions.

Link wrote for the Celebrator Beer News magazine on the Southern California beer scene and his experiences visiting European breweries. He served several terms as QUAFF President. He is a certified beer judge.

Lorton served as QUAFF Newsletter editor and President. (He has provided a separate oral history.)

Bixby, with her late husband, Horace, switched from wine making to beer making. She belonged to the SDSS (San Diego Suds Sorority) which was a women-only subgroup of QUAFF.

QUAFF was founded in 1989 for San Diego area homebrewers to learn, improve, and successfully compete with their beers, ciders, meads, and other fermented beverages. The group also assists members with earning national Beer Judge Certification (BJCP) and encourages participation in club-only and external competitions and charity events.

QUAFF is noted for sponsoring the America’s Finest City Homebrew Competition. One recipe from the pool of first-place winners considered for Best of Show at this event is selected for production at a local commercial brewery. Participating breweries have included Stone Brewing and AleSmith Brewing. The beers produced include Stone’s Xocovesa, developed by member Chris Banker. The club has garnered awards such as the American Homebrewers Association’s Radegast Award for community involvement and California and National Homebrew Club of the Year Awards, based on competition points earned.

Dozens of QUAFF members have ‘gone pro’ either finding employment in the beer industry in a variety of positions or opening their own brewery. Some have opened breweries in San Diego County and others have moved either elsewhere in California or out of state.

As the group has grown, the monthly meetings have moved from member’s homes, to Callahan’s Pub, Karl Strauss Brewery and Gardens, and now meet at The Gärten (Bay Park neighborhood beer garden space shared by Lost Cause Mead, Oddish Wine, and Deft Brewing.)

Their website is found at https://quaff.org/

This recording was made on the front exterior patio of Burning Beard Brewery in El Cajon; there are periods of traffic noise which interfered with recording.]]> Rich Link]]> Mary Anne Bixby]]> Greg Lorton]]> Judith Downie]]> In copyright]]> English]]> San Diego County (Calif.)]]> Art Miles Project]]> Bosnian Women's Initiative]]> International Atomic Energy Agency]]> Military base closures]]> Mural painting and decoration]]> Muramid Art and Cultural Center (Oceanside, Calif.)]]> Orphanages--Bosnia and Herzegovina]]> Srebrenica Massacre, Srebrenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1995]]> Unesco]]> United States. Army]]> United States. Navy]]> Women artists]]>
Tawfilis has had a storied career and has worked with the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the Women of Srebrenica Project, and UNESCO. In her interview, Tawfillis discusses her career working as a civilian employee of the military, as well as her work with the United Nations, IAEA, and the Women of Srebrenica Project. Tawfilis also discusses the creation of the Art Miles Mural Project, the Muramid Arts and Cultural Center, and her thoughts on art as a vehicle for healing, empathy, and peace.]]> Joanne Tawfilis]]> Linda Kallas]]> In copyright]]> https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/]]> English]]> Oceanside (Calif.)]]> Srebrenica (Bosnia and Herzegovina)]]> Bagby Beer Company (Oceanside, Calif.)]]> Brewers -- California -- San Diego County]]> Brewing industry -- California -- History]]> Microbreweries -- California -- San Diego County]]>
Jeff and Dande Bagby are the founders and owners of Bagby Beer Company in Oceanside, CA. Holly Sweat is Publicist at Katalyst Public Relations.

Jeff Bagby’s role was as head brewer and leading the on-site Beerleaders brewing education program. Jeff’s brewery experience includes Stone Brewing, White Labs, and Oggi’s Pizza and Brewing. His last brewery before opening Bagby Beer was Pizza Port, leading brewing operations for the chain from the Carlsbad location. During his time at Pizza Port, he led the team to win notable awards and medals such as the World Beer Cup and the Great American Beer Festival’s brewery and brewer awards multiple times. He is one of the most awarded San Diego region brewers, notably garnering more GABF Alpha King Challenge awards for best hoppiest beer in the United States than anyone to date (2005, 2010 and 2011.) He left Pizza Port in 2011 to devote his energy to finding a site for a brewery/restaurant in the San Diego North County beach area. With the sale of Bagby’s to Green Cheek Beer, he remains as the brewer and continues to focus on lagers and traditional styles.

Dande Bagby worked as Director of Operations including marketing and customer experience. She designed much of the building. Her employment background includes the San Diego Zoological Society, education, environmental science, restaurant and craft beer bar management, and marketing and finance responsibilities for multimillion-dollar budgets at a Fortune 500 company. She remains active in the transition to Green Cheek Beer Company at this time.

In their 2018 interview, Jeff and Dande discuss their introduction to craft beer; homebrewing; introduction of craft beer to the region; Jeff’s entry into the profession in the late 1990s; challenges and responsibilities of founding and building a brewery; packaging and distribution; charity work; competitions, judging, and awards; consumer education.]]> Jeff Bagby]]> Dande Bagby]]> Judith Downie]]> Holly Sweat]]> Ernest Cisneros]]> In copyright]]> English]]> Oceanside (Calif.)]]> Agricultural laborers -- California]]> Mesa Community College (San Diego, Calif.)]]> Mexican Americans]]> Photojournalists]]>
As a child and teen laborer Rios, due to extreme heat, convinced his field worker family to leave the Central Valley and join his aunts in San Diego. They moved in 1953. As a 14 year old teen high school drop-out, Rios started his own gardening and landscaping business in La Jolla, California. A client convinced Rios to attend night school to get his high school degree. Rios then pursued a civil engineering degree at community college, eventually dropping the pursuit of engineering when he finds his passion for photography. Rios acquired a degree in commercial and portrait photography at San Diego Community college where he met his mentors. After graduation he sought work as a photographer and landed an interview in Escondido for the regional newspaper, the Escondido Times-Advocate.]]> Daniel Flores Rios]]> Alexa Clausen]]> In copyright]]> English]]> Escondido (Calif.)]]> Hanford (Calif.)]]> La Jolla (San Diego, Calif.)]]> Ocean Beach (San Diego, Calif.)]]> Arts education]]> Basket making]]> California State University San Marcos]]> Death and remembrance]]> Education -- Native Americans]]> Illustration of books]]> Luiseño Indians]]> Pablo Tac Elementary School (Oceanside, Calif.)]]> Valley Arts Festival (Oceanside, Calif.)]]> Women artists]]> Linda Kallas]]> Diania Caudell]]> Melissa Martin]]> In copyright]]> https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/]]> English]]> Oceanside (Calif.)]]> Home brewing -- California -- San Diego County]]> Quality Ale and Fermentation Fraternity (San Diego, Calif.)]]> Women brewers -- California -- San Diego County]]> Rich Link, Mary Anne Bixby and Greg Lorton are all early members of Quality Ale and Fermentation Fraternity (QUAFF), a San Diego area homebrewing group. In this interview, Link, Bixby, and Lorton discuss their introduction to craft beer, early home brewing experiences, QUAFF, various local breweries, mead, and womens’ participation in homebrewing. None have worked in the industry professionally, but all are certified beer judges and Lorton and Bixby also judge mead competitions.

Link wrote for the Celebrator Beer News magazine on the Southern California beer scene and his experiences visiting European breweries. He served several terms as QUAFF President. He is a certified beer judge.

Lorton served as QUAFF Newsletter editor and President. (He has provided a separate oral history.)

Bixby, with her late husband, Horace, switched from wine making to beer making. She belonged to the SDSS (San Diego Suds Sorority) which was a women-only subgroup of QUAFF.

Their website is found at https://quaff.org/