num_pages: 328
description: The contents of your pint glass have a much richer history than you could have imagined. Through the story of the hop Hoptopia connects twenty-first century beer drinkers to lands and histories that have been forgotten in an era of industrial food production. The craft beer revolution of the late twentieth century is a remarkable global history that converged in the agricultural landscapes of Oregons Willamette Valley. The common hop a plant native to Eurasia arrived to the Pacific Northwest only in the nineteenth century but has thrived within the regions environmental conditions so much that by the first half of the twentieth century the Willamette Valley claimed the title Hop Center of the World. Hoptopia integrates an interdisciplinary history of environment culture economy labor and science through the story of the most indispensible ingredient in beer.
language: English
title: Hoptopia: A World of Agriculture and Beer in Oregon's Willamette Valley (Volume 61)
publisher: University of California Press