Asheville Beer: An Intoxicating History of Mountain Brewing by Anne Fitten Glenn
Print Length: 192 Pages
Publisher: The History Press
Publication Date: September 25, 2012
Language: English
ASIN: B00XQZBY2O
ISBN-10: 1609496310
ISBN-13: 978-1609496319
File Format: EPUB
Drinking local harks back to the founding of Asheville in 1798. Whether it be moonshine or craft beer, the culture of local hooch is deeply ingrained in the mountain dwellers of Western North Carolina. Both residents and visitors alike enjoy Asheville’s wealth of breweries, brewpubs, beer festivals and dedicated retailers. That enthusiasm earned the city the coveted Beer City, USA title year after year and prompted West Coast beer giants Sierra Nevada, New Belgium and Oskar Blues to establish production facilities here. Beer writer and educator Anne Fitten Glenn recounts this intoxicating history, from the suds-soaked saloons of “Hell’s Half Acre” to the region’s explosion into a beer Mecca.