Hall, Linus
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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: 2018-05-04
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content: Oral history interview with Linus Hall, founder and brewmaster of Yazoo Brewing Company in Nashville, Tennessee. Topics covered include Hall's childhood growing up in Tanzania, India, and Mississippi; his start homebrewing while in college at the University of Virginia in the early 1990s; his early career as a tire engineer in Nashville, where he became involved in the local homebrew club; Nashville brewpubs in the mid-1990s; his preparations to open his own brewery by acquiring a business degree and brewing degree; and a formative internship with Garrett Oliver at Brooklyn Brewery. Hall also speaks to the distinctive history of microbrewing and homebrewing in the U.S. South, beer's relationship to climate and food culture in the South; and Hall's work to open Yazoo Brewing Co. in October 2003, which included building the physical brewery, convincing local consumers to try the beer, and self-distributing. Other topics covered include recipe development, employee culture, branding and logo design, Nasvhille's economy, Yazoo's role in the community, and Hall's efforts to change Tennessee legislation related to taxation of beer and increasing the permissible alcohol by volume content of beer brewed in the state.