DeVries, Andrea
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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: 2023-07-25
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content: Oral history interview with Andrea DeVries, quality assurance manager at Anchor Brewing Company in San Francisco, California. Topics covered include DeVries's childhood on a dairy farm in the San Juan Islands, Washington; studying art and illustration; beginning to homebrew in the early 1990s; starting to work part-time at Anchor in the mid-1990s to help with Christmas Ale production; beginning to work full-time in different roles; her admiration for Fritz Maytag; and her experiences as a woman in the beer industry. DeVries also discusses Anchor's open-fermentation approach to brewing; her quality assurance lab and changes to it when Sapporo purchased Anchor; her favorite places in the brewery; and Anchor employees' reactions to the July 12, 2023 announcement that Sapporo USA would liquidate Anchor Brewing Co. on August 1, 2023.