Beverages category: 3182 books
by Shenanchie O'Toole
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
"Coffee Talk" contains a brief history of coffee, including the roasting process, types of coffee, brewing methods, recipes using coffee and resources for further study.
"Coffee Talk" is Book #39 in Food Fare's Culinary Collection. The book also appears in article format...
Upper Peninsula Beer
A History of Brewing Above the Bridge
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2015
Brewing came to the Upper Peninsula in the 1600s, when French fur traders substituted pine needles for hops in batches of spruce beer. Promoted as a health drink, the evergreen suds remained in favor with the British army when it occupied the region. German immigrants drawn in by the mining boom introduced...
by John F. Hogan, Judy E. Brady
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2015
In 1855, when Chicago's recently elected mayor Levi Boone pushed through a law forbidding the sale of alcohol on Sunday, the city pushed back. To the German community, the move seemed a deliberate provocation from Boone's stridently anti-immigrant Know-Nothing Party. Beer formed the centerpiece of German...
Detroit Beer
A History of Brewing in the Motor City
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
While in recent years Detroit's craft beer scene has exploded with activity and innovation, brewing has a long history in the Motor City. Small brewers popped up during the mid-1800s to support nearby saloons. Many breweries survived the dry years by producing "near beer," or non-alcoholic beer, which...
Twin Cities Beer
A Heady History
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2018
The Twin Cities witnessed a recent explosion of craft beer breweries and brewpubs, but the region's beer history reaches back generations. The Minneapolis Brewing Company introduced the iconic Grain Belt beer in 1893, and it remains a local favorite. Fur trapper and bootlegger Pierre "Pig's Eye"...
Over-the-Rhine
When Beer Was King
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2010
Over-the-Rhine is a place where a building owner can stumble upon huge caverns underneath a basement floor or find long-forgotten tunnels that travel far below city streets. Its present mysteries are attributable to a past that transcends the common story of how cities change over time: it is the...
Nebraska Beer
Great Plains History by the Pint
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2015
Nebraska's craft beer scene may be relatively young, but the state's rich brewing history stretches back to the 1800s. Tyler Thomas of NebraskaFoodie.com presents the whole story, from quenching thirsts in small towns before Prohibition to homebrewers going commercial and launching the nation's first...
Hoosier Beer
Tapping into Indiana Brewing History
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2011
Crack open a bottle of Champagne Velvet and dive into the first complete history of brewing in Indiana, where the beer history is as old as the state itself. More than three hundred breweries have churned out the good stuff for thirsty Hoosiers, and this city-by-city guide gives readers a sample of every...
Charlotte Beer
A History of Brewing in the Queen City
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Charlotte has entered a golden age of craft brewing, and while this fermented frenzy may feel altogether new, it evokes a forgotten heritage that dates back to colonial days. Beginning with Captain James Jack, whose tavern was a Patriot haven burned by the British during the Revolution, local beer writer...
Albuquerque Beer
Duke City History on Tap
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2017
Albuquerque's commercial brewing scene dates back to 1888, when the Southwestern Brewery & Ice Company was launched. It later churned out thirty thousand barrels of beer per year and distributed throughout the region. Nearly thirty years later, Prohibition halted brewing save for a brief comeback...
Washington Beer
A Heady History of Evergreen State Brewing
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2016
Brewing history touches every corner of Washington. When it was a territory, homesteader operations like Colville Brewery helped establish towns. In 1865, Joseph Meeker planted the state's first hops in Steilacoom. Within a few years, that modest crop became a five-hundred-acre empire, and Washington...
by Rick Armon
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2011
• 49 breweries and brewpubs
• Types of beer brewed at each site and the author's pick of the best beer to try
• Information on tours, takeout, and food for each brewery
• Features on Ohio's beer festivals, Winking Lizard's World Beer Tour, and the Ohio Craft Brewers Association
Fort Collins Beer
A History of Brewing on the Front Range
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2017
Although alcohol arrived with the first settlers in Fort Collins, Prohibition lingered until 1969. But the city was one of the first to latch onto the burgeoning craft beer movement. In 1989, Old Colorado Brewing Company paved the way as the city's first microbrewery. And with the inception of breweries...
by Tom Major
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2016
Maine was once a national leader in the temperance movement to outlaw alcohol. In the last 30 years, however, the Pine Tree State has been equally influential in the craft beer movement. Since 1986, when David and Karen Geary opened New England's first microbrewery, more than 50 breweries have opened...