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7roadmap for generations of brewers by offering products that differed from the mass-produced lagers and by mentoring and offering advice to future brewers.Jack McAuliffe was decidedly not influenced by Anchor Brewery.23 McAuliffe%u2019s New Albion Brewery opened in 1976 in Sonoma, California, an hour drive from Anchor Brewing, and used repurposed dairy and soda industry equipment. Truly independent, McAuliffe recreated the pale ale, porter, and stout styles he discovered and enjoyed while serving in the Navy in Scotland and England, styles he first started homebrewing while overseas.24 McAuliffe hand-bottled his beer and self-distributed it, driving between bars and restaurants in the Bay Area to deliver beer from his trunk. Since his products and operations were so unique, and because he explicitly marketed brewery tours so visitors could see how the beer was made, interested beer drinkers flocked to his old fruit warehouse brewery.25 After visiting Anchor Brewing and New AlbionBrewery in 1978, Ken Grossman and Paul Camusi, the founders of Sierra Nevada Brewing Company, noted that McAuliffe%u2019s brewery worked with %u201c[a] little elbow grease, some start-up capital, [and] a willingness [...] work tortuous [sic] hours.%u201d26 Unfortunately, McAuliffe%u2019s brewery closed in 1983 due to too much elbow grease, too little capital, and too many torturous hours.27Fred Eckhardt wrote, however, his legacy was already in place, inspiring a generation of do-ityourself brewers.28 He established the pattern of being inspired by European beer styles and trying to emulate them, first at home and then on a commercial level.Ken Grossman felt called to beer by his first taste of Anchor Steam which led him to homebrew beer and study chemistry for years before opening a homebrew supply shop and then, with Paul Camusi, Sierra Nevada Brewing Company in 1979. Grossman and Camusi were the first generation of brewers influenced by Maytag and McAuliffe, and would subsequently influence many other brewers, particularly with their pale ale, which created the %u201cWest Coast%u201d