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24cheaper ($2,000 a month), and he could move to a house within walking distance of work. Owens eventually raised $92,000 at $3,000 per share.81 He recorded the business name as California Brew Pub, Limited at the Alameda County Recorder%u2019s Office on January 12, 1983.82The next day he filed for a license at the California Department of Alcohol Beverage Controland a week later signed the lease in downtown Hayward. Owens then applied for the business license, a Federal Identification Number, a use permit, and building permits including electrical, plumbing, and mechanical.83 All was going well with the construction on the property until an employee argued with the building inspector, leading to a failed inspection and a stalling of the process. The employee was fired before the brewpub was even open, but eventually it passed the inspection. Buffalo Bill%u2019s Brewery opened on September 9, 1983. Unbeknownst to Owens, the Hopland Brewery, Tavern, Beer Garden, and Restaurant opened in August, 1983 in Hopland, California, 120 miles north of Hayward. Hopland, now called Mendocino Brewing Company, beat Owens in the race to open and is officially the first brewpub in California and second in the US. It opened quickly by buying the recently decommissioned New Albion Brewing Company equipment from Jack McAuliffe and by being co-owned by the former New Albion employees including brewmaster Don Barkley.84 Like Bert Grant at Yakima, Hopland was essentially operating as two different businesses, a brewery and a bar. While Buffalo Bill%u2019s is the third brewpub in the nation, it is the first brewpub in the US with a long draft system, drawing beer down a 62-foot line from the bright tank (storage tank under pressure) to the tap.85