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Ladataan... Washington Beer: A Heady History of Evergreen State BrewingTekijä: Michael F. Rizzo
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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. Kirjastojen kuvailuja ei löytynyt. |
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Michael Rizzo takes the “name a Washington beer” game to a whole other level. Washington Beer mentions hundreds of beers, brewers, and breweries that poured from our taps since territorial days — from Dayton and Walla Walla to Ellensburg, Langley, and Ballard.
Word of warning: Rizzo’s book is not a narrative. You might find it difficult to read cover to cover. It is more of a timeline in paragraph form. The author throws a dizzying number of names, facts, and dates your way. One sentence does not necessarily relate to the next and the text seldom carries the story of any one brewer more than a paragraph before abruptly moving on to the next chronological fact. Emil Sick (of Rainier Beer fame), for example, appears in this staccato form 15 times over a 30 page span. You can learn his story but you have to work for it.
You’ll also learn more about the industry ups and downs than the brewing process itself. If you want to zero in on a particular era, then find the appropriate chapter and browse your way through the surprising diversity of beer-making efforts from all across the Evergreen State. You will discover brands you never knew and cities you never associated with brewing. The last chapter with new brands and products from late 2015, is remarkably up-to-date for a book.
There’s a modest index. It lists brewers and brands mostly; it’s not very good with locations. After reading or skimming through the book, we used the index more for browsing beer names (e.g. Charging Hippo, GastroPod) than for reference.
Shelf Appeal: There is probably a narrow audience of people interested in historical brewery facts. They will enjoy thumbing through this book to see what trivia captivates them. Readers curious to learn about former breweries in their towns might also make discoveries with some effort.
-- I wrote this review for the Books section of the Washington state website: http://www.WA-List.com