DeLuca, Renée
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content: Johnson, Paula, Curator
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content: McCulla, Theresa
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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: 391.49 Megabytes (Total Running Time: 00:38:47, audio/wav)
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content: 2019-03-09
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content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
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content: Oral history interview with Renée DeLuca, president of New Albion Brewing Company. Topics covered include DeLuca's childhood in suburban Maryland, near Washington, D.C.; her education in communications and writing; and her early career working as a producer at a television station in Cleveland, Ohio. DeLuca also talks about learning as a child that she had been adopted and meeting her biological mother, who shared the identity of her biological father, Jack McAuliffe. DeLuca learned about McAuliffe's co-founding of New Albion Brewing Co., traveled to meet McAuliffe, and they "bonded over the beer." DeLuca discusses how she brought McAuliffe back into the craft beer community after his lengthy separation from it; their 2013 collaboration with Jim Koch at Boston Beer to brew New Albion Ale; and McAuliffe's decision to transfer New Albion Brewing Co. to DeLuca. DeLuca collaborated with Cleveland-based brewery Platform Beer Company to continue to brew New Albion beers. She discusses her actions as president of the brewery, contemporary preferences of craft beer consumers, and the industry's recent growth.