Speakers are: Susan Evans McClure (MC/Q&A moderator); Frank Clark of Colonial Williamsburg; Hugh Sisson of Heavy Seas Beer; Jon Grinspan, curator of Political History at the National Museum of American History; Kate Haulman, associate professor of History at American University, and finally, Charlie Papazian, founder and past president of the Brewers Association.
This program was the inaugural event of the American Brewing Initiative at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, a research and collecting initiative aimed at documenting the history of brewers, brewers, and the beer industry. This initiative is made possible with the generous support of the Brewers Association, the not-for-profit trade association dedicated to small and independent American brewers.
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