Interview with Matthew Sebastionelli, 2016 March 11
Part of collection: Beer and craft brewing oral history interviews (2016-287)
Dates
- Creation: 2016 March 11
Biographical Note
Matthew Sebastionelli (1984-) is Founder and Co-Owner of River City Cannery and Lucky Clover Packaging. Born into a military family in Arizona, Sebastionelli grew up in a variety of locations, but considers Olympia, Washington his hometown. He entered into firefighting out of high school, and served for thirteen years before an injury caused him to reconsider his career. An interest in home brewing lead him to the craft brewing industry, and the development of the mobile canning business River City Cannery, and its subsidiary business lines Lucky Clover Packaging and Craft Pack contract manufacturing and packaging, based in Elkridge, Maryland.
Scope and Contents note
Sebastionelli discusses his background in a military family, and early career in firefighting. An injury on the job forced Sebastionelli to reconsider his career options, a process that led him into the craft brewing industry. Lacking sufficient capital and expertise to open a brewery, Sebastionelli decided to try an innovative business model providing mobile canning services for craft breweries. Sebastionelli discusses the challenges of getting his business off the ground, which involved skills development, industry networking, and extensive assistance from his wife and business partner Ashley Sebastionelli. Sebastionelli has enjoyed considerable success with his business, such that he has expanded its offerings to include packaging brokerage services and co-manufacturing, co-packaging services for alcoholic and non-alcoholic craft beverage industries. [ID: Matthew_Sabastionelli_3_11_16].
General Physical Description note
1 WAV File. TRT 02:16:44.
Extent
From the Collection: 23.6 Gigabytes
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Additional Description
Access Restrictions
This collection is open for research.
Related Names
Subject
- Sebastionelli, Matthew, 1984- (Person)
Creator
- From the Collection: Hagley Museum and Library. Library. Oral History Project Office (Organization)
- From the Collection: Hargreaves, Gregory (staff) (Interviewer, Person)
Repository Details
Repository Details
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