Braden Niehart

Beer Terroir (eBook, ePUB)

Place and Taste in the Pre-Prohibition Rocky Mountain West

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

BEER TERROIR seeks to understand how the concept of terroir ( a term typically used in reference to wine) may be applied to beer helping to further our understanding not only of the beverage but also of the social and economic factors affecting those who first began to brew, drink, brand and market it in a region now famous for its beer culture and its spectacular and agriculturally-challenging terrain.It covers the main aspects of terroir-ingredients, soils, landscapes, history, culture-and shows that approaching beer history conceptually rather than strictly stylistically, by brand, or by region, opens up new avenues of research and illumination.

The book focuses on the Rocky Mountains, takes a deep dive into the settlement of the region, and explores a number of questions. How did the human, organic, geographical, and economic landscape of the Rocky Mountains impact beer production and the notion of terroir? Was there always a shared sense of the importance of terroir between disparate parts of the Rockies? Did different regions believe their beer to vary from other mountainous regions? What evidence is there that the beer brewed in this region is indeed palpably different from other places in the US?

Each chapter looks at a particular aspect of beer terroir in the Rocky Mountain region while charting the emergence of its application to beer up to and during the Pre-Prohibition period. This was a time when many brewers were restricted to using local ingredients with the exception of hops which had to be imported. It was also the beginning of a local beer culture which now attracts a global following.

Beer Terroir is aimed at those interested in the history of American beer and brewing as well as in the culture and history of foodways.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Equinox Publishing Ltd.
• Seitenzahl: 164
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781800507166
• Artikelnr.: 75884063

Autorenporträt

Braden Neihart received his M.A. in history from Colorado State University in 2019. His thesis, "Frontier Beer: A Spatial Analysis of Denver Breweries, 1859-1876," examined how Denver breweries acquired resources and situated themselves in local and national networks in order to compete. He is interested in how beer helps understand racial, cultural, economic, and environmental patterns. His research focuses on beer in Pre-Prohibition Rocky Mountain West.