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9storeowners offered mimeographed recipes for various European beer styles. These recipes were collected by early homebrewers and beer writers such as Fred Eckhardt, who published A Treatise on Lager Beers in 1969 and self-published Amateur Brewer, a semi-regular journal about homebrewing, which was distributed at homebrew shops.35 Other influential homebrewers, homebrew shops owners, and writers were Lee Coe, Byron Burch, and Charlie Papazian. Coe taught homebrewing classes and published The Beginner%u2019s Home Brew Book in 1972 when homebrewing was still illegal. He was an original member of the first two homebrew clubs in the country, the Maltose Falcons in Los Angeles and the Draught Board in San Leandro, California.36 Burch worked at a homebrew and winemaking supply store in Berkeley, California,and later owned two stores further north in Santa Rosa. He wrote Quality Brewing: A Guidebook for the Home Production of Fine Beers in 1974.37 Papazian began teaching homebrewing in Boulder, Colorado, and first published The Joy of Homebrewing in 1976. He later started the homebrewing magazine Zymurgy and the trade magazine New Brewer. Papazian created the American Homebrewers Association and the in 1978, the Great American Beer Festival (the largest beer event in the US) in 1982, and the Brewers Association (the US craft beer trade organization).38 These four writers and their publications, along with many others, continue to influence amateur brewers, many of whom made the transition to professional brewing. Homebrewing, however, was illegal in the United States until 1978. California State Assemblyman Tom Bates of Berkeley wrote the Bates Bill that legalized homebrewing in California and the bill was signed by Governor Jerry Brown. Prior to the bill%u2019s passage, individuals were required to pay $828 for a license if they wanted to brew beer for private consumption. While no one actually ever paid the license fee nor did anyone get fined or arrested, the law was necessary to legitimize homebrewing. Berkeley folk singer Helen LaRoza