Oliver, Garrett
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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: 2022-08-17
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content: Oral history interview with Garrett Oliver, brewmaster of Brooklyn Brewery, in Brooklyn, New York. Topics covered include Oliver's childhood in Queens, New York; his early interest and skill in the sciences; studying film at Boston University; moving to London in 1983, where he discovered English beer and pub culture; moving back to the U.S. and beginning to homebrew; and his transition into brewing professionally, first at Manhattan Brewing Company and then at Brooklyn Brewery. Oliver also talks about his frequent European travel, which enabled him to develop broad expertise in a variety of beer styles and histories; his friendship with the beer writer Michael Jackson; evolutions in Brooklyn Brewery's beers and approach during his tenure there; his enthusiasm for cooking and pairing food with beer; writing about beer; his experiences as a Black man in the beer industry; and his founding of the Michael James Jackson Foundation for Brewing and Distilling, to award educational scholarships to people of color studying brewing and distilling.