Benner, Paul
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content: Johnson, Paula, Curator
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content: National Museum of American History (U.S.)
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content: American Beer Brewing Oral History Collection
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content: American Beer Brewing Oral History Collection / Series 1: Born-Digital Interviews
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content: 2018-06-06
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content: Oral history interview with Paul Benner, co-founder of Platform Beer Company in Cleveland, Ohio. Topics covered include Benner's childhood on a farm in northeastern Ohio; a transformative trip to Colorado in the mid-2000s, where Benner discovered a vibrant craft beer culture, especially taprooms; his start homebrewing in 2011; and opening a homebrew supply shop in 2012. Benner talks about the histories of nineteenth-century brewing, homebrewing, and microbrewing in Cleveland; the importance of Great Lakes Brewing Co.; his decision to open Platform Beer Co., in 2014; consumer tastes and brewery expansion; social media; Platform's collaboration with New Albion Brewing Company co-founder Jack McAuliffe, to brew McAuliffe's recipe for New Albion Ale; and Benner's predictions for the future of the craft beer industry. In August 2019, AB InBev acquired Platform Beer Co.