- 306 pages
- English
- PDF
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Breweries of Wisconsin
About This Book
The story of the Dairy State's other major industryâbeer! From the immigrants who started brewing here during territorial days to the modern industrial giants, this is the history, the folklore, the architecture, the advertising, and the characters that made Wisconsin the nation's brewing leader. Updated with the latest trends on the Wisconsin brewing scene.
"Apps adeptly combines diligent scholarship with fascinating anecdotes, vividly portraying brewmasters, beer barons, saloonkeepers, and corporate raiders. All this plus color reproductions of popular beer labels and a detailed recipe for home brew."â Wisconsin Magazine of History
"In a highly readable style Apps links together ethnic influence, agriculture, geography, natural resources, meteorology, changing technology, and transportation to explore some of the mystique, romance and folklore associated with beer from antiquity to the present day in Wisconsin."â The Brewers Bulletin
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Preface to the Second Edition
- Preface to the First Edition
- Introduction
- Part 1: Beer Around the World
- Part 2: Turbulent Time
- Part 3: In the Time of Giants
- Part 4: A Changing Brewery Scene
- Appendix A: Monuments to the Past
- Appendix B: Brewery Failures since 1950
- Appendix C: Home-Brewed Beer
- Appendix D: Wisconsin Breweries, 1835 to 1985
- Appendix E: Wisconsin Breweries, 1985 to 2004
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Illustration Credits
- Index