Dresler, Steven "Steve"
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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: 373.26 Megabytes (Total Running Time: 00:33:58, audio/wav)
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content: 2017-03-29
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content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
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content: Oral history interview with Steven "Steve" Dresler, brewmaster at Sierra Nevada Brewing Company in Chico, California. Topics covered include Dresler's early years homebrewing in California in the late 1970s and early 1980s; meeting Ken Grossman and joining Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. in 1983; the brewery's early years; the responsibilities of a brewmaster; recipe development at Sierra Nevada and brewing "hop-fronted" beers; brewing with wet hops and whole cone hops; early consumer reaction to hop-forward beers; the impact of the brewery's expansion on Dresler's work as brewmaster; the nature of the Sierra Nevada brand; the definition of craft beer; and Dresler's thoughts on the future of craft beer.