| Through the breweries themselves, this evocatively illustrated history tells the story of this American industry and its cultural importance, featuring archival and modern imagery and photography of brewery architecture inside and out, brewery workers, key industry figures (and enemies), the production and distribution processes, period advertising, and much more. Author and beer expert Bill Yenne examines George Washington's recipe for "small beer" and traces the industry's ever-evolving climate over the course of two centuries. Readers will witness how breweries flourished and suffered like other American houses of manufacture, and survived the temperance movement, Prohibition, depression, war and consolidation before the microbrewery boom revived the industry beginning in the late-tentieth century.
Hard Cover, 156 pages, 10.25 x 10.25 |
