Washington beer
Subtitle: a heady history of Evergreen State brewing
By: Michael F. Rizzo
Publisher: American Palate
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Charleston, SC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 190
ISBN-13: 9781467119085
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Beer; History; Beer industry; Brewing; Brewing industry; Breweries
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 the statewide craft tap takeover, and today, nearly three hundred breweries and brewpubs call the Evergreen State home."--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-179) and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword /Dick Cantwell; title: Introduction; title: 1. The beginning: when beer came to Washington; title: 2. The 1880s and 1890s: the territory grows as the century ends; title: 3. 1900: dawn of a new century; title: 4. From the 1910s to the 1930s: prohibition comes to Washington; title: 5. From the 1940s to the 1970s: juggling for market share; title: 6. The 1980s and 1990s: the birth of craft beer; title: 7. 2000-2003: a new century; title: 8. 2004-2010; title: 9. 2011-2012; title: 10. 2013-2014; title: 11. 2015.