MCA-I  August 24th Social Mixer
The Making Of SUDS

This evening is not to be missed. MCA-I has joined hands with Mission Brewery in its brand new location in downtown San Diego for a night of great networking, tours of the Brewery, beer tasting, pints of beer, and delicious food.  Two veterans of drinking beer will be our speakers, Dan Selis owner Founder of Mission Brewery, and Sheldon Kaplan, Producer and Director of  “SUDS County USA,” a documentary about the renaissance of brewing in San Diego County over the last two decades, and the inextricable connection between the local home and pro brewers.  There will be some fun door prizes as well.

Schedule:
6:00-6:30    Social Time
6:30-7:00    Beer Flight Tastings led with Dan Selis and  a history behind the
                    beer industry in San Diego with Sheldon Kaplan - "Brief history of
                    brewing in the county and how that led to where we are today."
7:00-7:30    Q & A with Sheldon Kaplan, Suds County USA. 
7:30-8:30    Brewery Tours
8:30pm        Door Prizes

--  Drink Responsibly! 
--  Participants must be 21 years of age

Speakers   
  
Dan Selis
Owner and founder of Mission Brewery

Dan Selis likes to think big. As the owner and founder of Mission Brewery, he has taken his beer making operation from the tiny, cramped spaces of his kitchen and garage, to a small pub in La Jolla, to a modest brewery in Chula Vista, and finally to its present location in the historic Wonder Bread Building in downtown San Diego. His newest venue is far from a homemade garage set-up. Mission now occupies more than 14,000 square feet, and has the capacity to produce 10,000-plus barrels a year. The new space also has a gorgeous tasting room that can accommodate up to 400 people.

"I started homebrewing twenty years ago, when I was in college," Dan explains. "Someone showed me how to do my first batch and I was hooked." He quickly became a homebrew enthusiast and later enrolled in a beer judge certification program (where he shared a classroom with Ale Smith's Peter Zien). Dan says that becoming a beer judge "fundamentally changed

Sheldon Kaplan
Producer and Director of  "SUDS County USA"

Sheldon first fell in love with good beer while living in Europe during the late 1980's. A self-described "Hollywood refugee," he moved to San Diego in 1996 and discovered the then nascent local craft beer scene due to a chance meeting with Skip Virgilio, founder of AleSmith Brewing.

In 2009 Sheldon decided to return to his film-making roots and opened Ibhayi Media in San Diego. Ibhayi's first production, a feature-length documentary "SUDS COUNTY USA", details the renaissance of brewing in San Diego County over the last two plus decades and examines the inextricable connection between the local home and pro brewers. It is scheduled for release in November of 2011 during San Diego Beer Week.