- Title: Chicago Beer: A History of Brewing, Public Drinking and the Corner Bar
- Author:June Skinner Sawyers
- Pages: 162
- Publisher (Publication Date): History PR (March 21, 2022)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10, ISBN-13 or ASIN: 1540251500
- Download File Format:EPUB
Long before corner bars stitched the social fabric of Chicago’s neighborhoods together, raucous pioneers like Mark Beaubien were fermenting over the untapped potential of the unbroken prairie. Take a determined saunter from the clamor of Chicago’s first breweries, through the hidden passages of thousands of speakeasies and then back into the current of the contemporary craft beer revival. Follow a path plastered with portraits of infamous saloonkeepers and profiles of historic bars. Author June Sawyers serves as an expert guide, stopping every so often to collect a vintage beer label, explain an original recipe or salute the heady history that sits atop the City of Big Shoulders.