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51brewing industry and away from homebrewing as the magazine grew in size, added larger brewery ads, color interiors, and glossy paper.In the Fall 1986 issue Owens also publically called for Senator Alan Cranston to replicate Assemblyman Tom Bates%u2019 California AB 3610 that legalized brewpubs or direct beer sales on a national level, just as Cranston pushed Bates%u2019 homebrewing legalization in 1978.148 Owens%u2019 magazine continued advocating for small, independent, and traditional breweries. In 1987, Owens appeared in the Congressional Record, petitioning the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms to allow brewpubs to sell beer directly to consumers nationwide.149 In the Summer, 1988 issue of American Brewer: The Micro-Brewer/Brewpub Magazine, Owens responded to a letter about changing brewpub laws in West Virginia. Owens was a member of Brew-PAC (sometimes spelled BrewPAC), a political action committee working in numerous states to change pub brewing laws.150 Owens continued proselytizing the story of craft beer whenever and wherever he could.In the West Virginia response above, Owens used two different spellings of the PAC, something of a habit in his publications, due, in equal parts, to his dyslexia and excitement to get the information out. As he said about a later publication, %u201cIt%u2019s my magazine. I can do whatever I want with it. [%u2026] If there are errors we can correct them later.%u201d151 In the same manner the name of the publication changed from %u201camateur%u201d to %u201cAmerican,%u201d then combined %u201cbrew pub%u201d to %u201cbrewpub.%u201d For Owens, changing the title to American Brewer in 1987 expanded the scope on brewing on a national level.152 The other two big magazines were published by Charlie Papazian at the Association of Brewers (now Brewers Association): New Brewer, focusing on the industry, and Zymurgy, focusing on homebrewing. Papazian recalled, %u201c%u2019competing%u2019 publications offered [a] different and fresh perspective. One publication couldn%u2019t [sic] represent all those ideas