Cincinnati Beer

Michael D. Morgan

• Publisher: The History Press
• Year: 2019
• eBook ISBN: 9781439666593
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: North American History
• Index: History

Despite a brewing pedigree richer than that of Milwaukee or St. Louis, Cincinnati's role in American beer history is quite often underappreciated.

Drawing on years of research, Michael D. Morgan, author of the award-winning Over-the-Rhine: When Beer Was King, tackles this subject with a fresh perspective. Complete with new findings, the true story of the city's first brewer comes to light, as do the oft-heralded deeds - and overlooked misdeeds - of the beer barons who built empires their progeny drove to ruins. From the story of the Scottish brewery that made Cincy famous for English ales, through forgotten Prohibition political scandals, to the birth and rise of the modern craft beer movement, Cincinnati Beer explores previously untold stories of our beer-soaked past.

Table of contents

• Front Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• River Water Ale
• The Guy Who Was First and the Guy Who Wasn’t
• The First Great Brewery
• Rats!
• There Can Be Only One
• Amour Pour Bière
• Out of the Floodplain and Over the Rhine
• Some Beer Bubbles Aren’t Just in Your Head
• Rise of the Beer Barons
• Corn Juice, Rice and Other Poisons
• Feud at Jackson Births Nashville’s Biggest Brewery
• The Second Generation Wrecks the Family Business
• Why Somebody Had to Make a Law Against It
• Dark Beers Make a Comeback and the Sheriff Gets into the Beer Business
• Liquid Bread Lines
• Reinventing Flavor
• Some Beer Bubbles Aren’t Just in Your Head 2.0
• Urban Artifact Brews a 150-Year-Old Beer
• Back to the Giant with the Axe
• Select Bibliography
• About the Author