Beer History Sites

[wedge421]

If I need info real quick for a review or something I just hit up Wikipedia with the beer style name and I have always gotten great info from there. Its nice because if you need it and you are not at your PC you can always hit up the Wikipedia app on the phone

 

[rycov]

very interesting stuff! subscribed

 

[Revvy]

I was doing some digging into A brewery in Minnesota, and found a bunch of links.

http://www.historyontheweb.org/minnbrew/mnbrew.html

http://www.historyontheweb.org/minnbrew/brwlst7.html

 

[Germelli1]

Can't believe I missed this thread until now! When I get home tonight and finish bottling a batch with my dad, I will look up some of the materials from my "Brewing Sciences and Technologies" class last semester and see if I have anything to add. I wrote a paper on the reputation of American Beer and how prohibition affected it so I will look at my works cited on there as well!

 

[Revvy]

Can't believe I missed this thread until now! When I get home tonight and finish bottling a batch with my dad, I will look up some of the materials from my "Brewing Sciences and Technologies" class last semester and see if I have anything to add. I wrote a paper on the reputation of American Beer and how prohibition affected it so I will look at my works cited on there as well!

That would be awesome!!!!!!!!

 

[Germelli1]

I can actually access my paper from when I turned in a digital copy so I am looking at it. My favorite line:

. In combination with refrigeration, the pasteurization stabilized the beer for a long enough period for breweries to start using railroad transportation. Pasteurization was applied to beer 22 years before it was adopted for milk by the dairy industry!

 

[unionrdr]

I found that they now know through micro biological archeology that beer pre-dates bread by about 3.000 years.

 

[1ratdog]

wow, revvy and everyone else who contributed. i just stumbled on this thread (while searching for info on al capone beer) its going to take me weeks to go through all the sites listed here.

i can see my favorites list getting bigger.

thank you so much.

i love the history of beer


cheers
brew on

 

[unionrdr]

I have a copy of that Al Capone beer page; http://www.brewery.org/brewery/cm3/recs/13_30.html

 

[1ratdog]

thanks unionrdr

 

[unionrdr]

Have fun with that recipe. It doesn't look too bad,actually.

 

[1ratdog]

workshopoftheworld.com


some interesting brewing history from philadelphia

 

[ReverseApacheMaster]

I don't know if it has been mentioned before but you can search on Google Books for homebrew and find old articles and books on both historical techniques and some very scientific stuff.

 

[1ratdog]

thank you r.a.m.

 

[1ratdog]

anyone else have any historical site i can search in my endless quest to brew beers from ago. once my flux capacitor is operational i will no longer need you though.

 

[Revvy]

I don't know if it has been mentioned before but you can search on Google Books for homebrew and find old articles and books on both historical techniques and some very scientific stuff.

Yeah.....Many of the above links are google books.....

 

[1ratdog]

well good morning revvy. hows the ticker?

 

[Revvy]

Great article on the history of Brewing in Syracuse, NY.

 

[Airborneguy]

Starting in January I will be taking a course on the History of Beer Brewing. the professor says he will be providing me with online content to read. I'll post whatever he gives me in this thread.

 

[Airborneguy]

Syracuse has some good beer now, too. Middle Ages Brewing was one of my best brewery visits yet.

 

[Revvy]

Another interesting historical beer blog with an emphasis on British beers. http://zythophile.wordpress.com/

Here's an essay George Orwell wrote about his favorite pub.

 

[unionrdr]

They're the ones that mention Fuller's whiskey beer.
http://zythophile.wordpress.com/2008/05/31/watch-out-for-fullers-whisky-beer/

 

[umopepisdn]

Whenever I think I like beer more than anyone else, I come here and find Revy. I picture Revy having one of those car beds except it is a beer truck full of craft brew kegs and he spends his nights on the plastic CB attached to the bed teaching the other beer truck bed drivers how to properly make starter kits

 

[Revvy]

I just found out that these episodes are on Youtube.

A few months back BBC America ran a series called "Oz and James Drink to Britain." It's continuation of a series of shows pairing British wine expert Oz Clark, with James May, one of the hosts of the British Top Gear."

In past series it's been more about wine. But this season covered the other world of British drinks, notably beer. cider and spirits.

They're a very lighthearted programs with great bantering, and a bit of info on homebrewing (badly) and the history of British brewing, showing the various regions, like Yorkshire and New Castle.

They may not be serious historical treatises, but they are a hoot.

Ep 1 Clarke and May travel to Yorkshire and Derbyshire, learn what goes into beer and visit a vineyard.





EP 2 Clarke and May travel to Wigan and visit a small commercial brewery.





EP 3 Clarke and May travel to Scotland, receive a blindfolded whisky tasting and meet brewers.





EP 4 Clarke and May travel to Ireland, test Irish Guinness and host "Strictly Come Drinking".

 

[Revvy]

EP 5 Clarke and May taste some extreme beers, and attempt to work as barmen.



EP 6 Clarke and May travel to Wales, sample vodka, perry and wines.



EP 7 Clarke and May travel to the South West on a traditional cider farm and James makes his own Plymouth Gin.



EP 8 Clarke and May try British sparkling wine and visit a traditional Kentish hop garden.

 

[merkinman]

Thanks, R.

 

[Revvy]

Just found this interesting article by Michael ("the beer hunter") Jackson on Norway's ancient brewing secrets are passed down to homebrewers.

Odin's glass of nectar.

A compendium of Michael Jackson's Historical brewing articles.

 

[SeaBass512]

Just wanted to say thanks, mainly to Revvy, for all these links and resources.
I'm taking a labor studies course at Wayne State and for our final paper, we can write about anything as long as it pertains to labor and american politics. I'm still not 100% sure what angle I'm going to take, but these links are a good start. I might look into how the big American breweries are now foreign-owned (yet unionized) and of the future of the industry, somehow in terms of the labor movement.

Thanks, and cheers

 

[unionrdr]

That MJ article about the Viking Brewing yeast was fascinating! I wouldn't mind trying some of that yeast in my Burton ale next time. It'd be interesting to note what the specific changes would be.

 

[Revvy]

Just wanted to say thanks, mainly to Revvy, for all these links and resources.
I'm taking a labor studies course at Wayne State and for our final paper, we can write about anything as long as it pertains to labor and american politics. I'm still not 100% sure what angle I'm going to take, but these links are a good start. I might look into how the big American breweries are now foreign-owned (yet unionized) and of the future of the industry, somehow in terms of the labor movement.

Thanks, and cheers

Small world, I work for Wayne Sate. LOL