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You are here: Home / Breweries / Jeff “Lucky Pants” Babgy Wins Big

Jeff “Lucky Pants” Babgy Wins Big

September 30, 2009 By Jay Brooks

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Jeff Bagby, the head brewer at Pizza Port in Carlsbad, won big this year at the Great American Beer Festival. He picked up a whopping seven medals; four gold, one silver and two bronze. In addition, Pizza Port Carlsbad was awarded the Large Brewpub and Large Brewpub Brewer of the Year.

Below is a photo of Jeff, with Yiga Miyashira, up on stage picking up just one of his eight awards last Saturday. Notice the eyesore inducing polyester plaid pants? If you’re a regular to the GABF Award Ceremony, you may already remember that Jeff always seems to have on a pair of plaid pants. At first, I thought it was the same pair every year. But looking back over the last few reveals that it’s actually been a different pair of polyester plaid pants each year.

Given that Jeff and Pizza Port Carlsbad have won 19 medals in the last four years, I’d say his plaid pants are pretty darn lucky. Of course, being a great brewer helps, and I don’t want to take anything away from his mad skills. But I’d put even money on the pants making even the most mediocre brewer better. Below is a retrospective of Jeff’s “Lucky Pants” for the past four years.

2009 Lucky Pants
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2008 Lucky Pants
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2007 Lucky Pants
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2006 Lucky Pants
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If you, too, want or need a little luck — and let’s face it, who doesn’t? — I took a close up of the pattern on Jeff’s lucky pants and created some downloadable wallpaper in three different sizes. So now in addition to the Bulletin logo wallpaper page, you can also get Mr. Bagby’s wallpaper, too.

Jeff Bagby’s Lucky Pants 2009 Wallpaper

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Filed Under: Breweries, Events, Just For Fun Tagged With: Awards, GABF, Humor, San Diego



Comments

  1. Stephen Beaumont says

    October 1, 2009 at 6:52 am

    Someone next to me at the awards commented that Jeff was “Tall West-Coast Brewer of the Year,” which prompted me to observe that this would hardly be a minor victory, given the significant stature of many of the individuals manning the kettles out your way.

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