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A Conversation With Fritz Maytag

September 9, 2010 By Jay Brooks

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Reason TV, the video arm of Reason magazine (who’ve I’ve written for), was created through a grant from Drew Carey. They’ve done a number of short online videos on a variety of subjects, and have their own YouTube channel. They even did one based on, or perhaps inspired by, the article I did for them a few years ago, entitled Beer: An American Revolution. More recently, they did an interesting 10-minute interview with Fritz Maytag, the godfather of the craft beer movement in America. If you’ve heard Maytag speak before or have been around him any length of time, there’s nothing new in the interview, but with him moving into the role of Emeritus as new owners take over the day-to-day operations, it’s great to have a video record of some of Fritz’s stories.

Filed Under: Breweries, Just For Fun Tagged With: California, History, San Francisco, Video



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  1. Brent says

    September 9, 2010 at 12:44 pm

    Loved the story about trying to get arrested in the Haight …

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