Papazian, Charles "Charlie"
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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: 841.88 Megabytes (Total Running Time: 01:16:38, audio/wav)
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content: 2017-05-01
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content: Oral history interview with Charles "Charlie" Papazian, founder of the American Homebrewers Association and the journal Zymurgy, and past president of the Brewers Association. Papazian talks about his academic interests while an undergraduate at the University of Virginia in the late 1960s and early 1970s; his initial encounter with homebrewed beer at UVA and the start of his own homebrewing hobby; moving to Boulder, Colorado in 1972; teaching homebrewing and procuring supplies; drafting and self-publishing his first homebrewing guide, The Joy of Brewing, in 1976; evolutions in his teaching and writing; founding the American Homebrewers Association, the Association of Brewers, and the Great American Beer Festival; the formation of the Brewers Association; Colorado beer culture and global beer culture; the role of craft beer in the American economy; and the definition of craft beer.