Ammendolia, Anthony "Tony"
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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: 388.07 Megabytes (Total Running Time: 00:38:27, audio/wav)
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content: 2018-08-29
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content: Oral history interview with Anthony "Tony" Ammendolia, owner and founder of Original Gravity homebrew supply shop and brewer at Final Gravity Brewing Company in Richmond, Virginia. Topics covered include Ammendolia's start homebrewing in 1993; learning how to homebrew before the internet; working in a natural foods store and grocery store; deciding to open a homebrew supply shop in 2011; and several years later, opening a nanobrewery as part of the homebrew shop. Ammendolia also talks about beer preferences among homebrewers and customers in his taproom; his experiences experimenting with hops to brew his award-winning IPAs; homebrewing competitions and social media as forums for feedback for brewers; his taproom as a social space; and his projections for the future of craft beer.