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53In addition to showcasing brewers, American Brewer featured a who%u2019s who of beer writers, including Fred Eckhardt, Randy Mosher, Stan Hieronymus, Bill Metzger, and Charlie Papazian himself. Lucy Saunders wrote regular articles on food and beer pairing. She was a pioneering beer writer for both her gender and her focus on craft beer and fine food. Her book, Cooking with Beer: Taste-Temping Recipes and Creative Ideas for Matching Beer and Food, was one of the first pairing guides.158 Michael Jackson, the preeminent British beer writer who introduced the concept of beer styles in the late-1970s with The World Guide to Beer, regularly contributed articles about whatever beer-related item struck his fancy before he had a permanent column. American Brewer featured articles not just on brewers and breweries but also distributors, equipment manufacturers, hop and barley producers, breweriana (the collecting of brewery-related ephemera), recipes, trip reports, reviews, and homebrewing advice. In 1990, Owens changed the name to American Brewer Magazine then to American Brewer: The Business of Beer in 1992, the name it still bears in 2017. Owens initially published the magazine in the back office at Buffalo Bill%u2019s Brewery and then, after selling the brewpub, from an office across the street for a year or two. The final home was in the back office of an antique store Owens purchased and ran for a few years in downtown Hayward.159 American Brewer went through numerous editorial and staff changes through the years, causing its quarterly publication schedule to falter from time to time (hence issue 58 listed as %u201cSprung,%u201d the season between Spring and Summer), but it consistently maintained the balance of reverence and irreverence, just like the beer industry it covered. By 1993, Bill Owens ran Buffalo Bill%u2019s Brewery, supervised contract brewing, and published American Brewer, which was widely recognized as a venerable quarterly trade publication with circulation of 20,000 copies.160 Fred Dodsworth, the editor of American Brewer,