num_pages: 208
description: 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 led the nation in hops production by the turn of the century. Enterprising pioneers like Emil Sick and City Brewery's Catherine Stahl galvanized early Pacific Northwest brewing. In 1982 Bert Grant's Yakima Brewing and Malting Company opened the first brewpub in the country since Prohibition. Soon Seattle's Independent Ale Brewing Company led a statewide craft tap takeover and today nearly three hundred breweries and brewpubs call the Evergreen State home. Author Michael F. Rizzo unveils the epic story of brewing in Washington.
language: English
title: Washington Beer: A Heady History of Evergreen State Brewing
publisher: The History Press