“I was walking down an aisle in the store,” he recalls, “and that spoon spoke to me. In 1973, Charlie’s spoon was a humble, $1 kitchen utensil setting on a hardware store shelf in Boulder, Colorado. How important is that? The spoon is the hero, mixing and swirling things. “A spoon,” he says, “is the starting point for everything a brewer stirs up. Now in its 37th year, GABF is the largest ticketed beer festival in North America with more than 60,000 attendees annually. In 1982, Papazian debuted the GABF in Boulder, CO. The Spoon as a Starting PointĬharlie trying beer at the 1984 Great American Beer Festival. Papazian’s wooden companion was a central part of his story. And you can’t tell the history of craft brewing without Charlie,” McCulla says. “Beer has become central to American culture. “It’s well deserved and a little bit overdue,” says Theresa McCulla, the Smithsonian’s recently hired historian for the museum’s American Brewing History Initiative, which was made possible through a donation from the Brewers Association, the not-for-profit trade association dedicated to small and independent American brewers, and publishers of. The “FOOD” exhibit will feature a new section that for the first time in Smithsonian history showcases the rise of homebrewing and craft beer in America. ( READ: Smoke Beers: Historical Beer Style Catches Modern Fire) ![]() Later this year it will become part of a Smithsonian Institution National Museum of American History exhibit entitled “FOOD: Transforming the American Table 1950-2000.” Centerpieced by Julia Child’s reconstructed home kitchen, the exhibit chronicles the “impact of innovations and new technologies” on America’s post-World War II food and drink landscape. His spoon is part of the story.įor its role in the first dozen years of Papazian’s tasty overthrow of America’s beer culture, Papazian’s wooden spoon - 18 inches long, wort-stained and worn from hundreds of brewing days - has a new address in the nation’s capital. Just this week, Papazian announced he’d be exiting the Brewers Association in January 2019, marking four decades of influence on American brewing. ![]() To secure his place in history, Charlie Papazian - the father of America’s transformational homebrewing and craft brewing cultures - twirled a wooden spoon.
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