Blodger, John Kevin "Kevin"
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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: 262.37 Megabytes (Total Running Time: 01:11:39, audio/wav)
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content: 2020-09-04
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content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
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content: Oral history interview with John Kevin "Kevin" Blodger, co-owner and director of brewing operations at Union Craft Brewing in Baltimore, Maryland. Topics covered include Blodger's childhood in suburban Virginia; his memories of his mother's cooking; studying journalism in college; his growing interest in craft beer after college; beginning to homebrew around 2000; and starting to work in the brewing industry shortly thereafter. Blodger also talks about working as a contract brewer at Frederick Brewing; working for Gordon Biersch in Illinois; the differences between the beer cultures of metro Chicago and metro Washington, D.C.; founding Union Craft Brewing in 2011; the process of recipe formulation there; the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the brewery; his experiences as a Black man in brewing; and his projections for the future of the industry.