Cincinnati Beer

by Michael D. Morgan

Overview

Despite a brewing pedigree richer than that of Milwaukee or St. Louis, Cincinnati's role in American beer history is quite often underappreciated.

Drawing on years of research, Michael D. Morgan, author of the award-winning Over-the-Rhine: When Beer Was King, tackles this subject with a fresh perspective. Complete with new findings, the true story of the city's first brewer comes to light, as do the oft-heralded deeds - and overlooked misdeeds - of the beer barons who built empires their progeny drove to ruins. From the story of the Scottish brewery that made Cincy famous for English ales, through forgotten Prohibition political scandals, to the birth and rise of the modern craft beer movement, Cincinnati Beer explores previously untold stories of our beer-soaked past.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781467140898
Publisher:	Arcadia Publishing SC
Publication date:	04/08/2019
Series:	American Palate
Pages:	224
Sales rank:	1,073,220
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Michael D. Morgan, JD, is president of Queen City History & Ed. He teaches "Hops & History" at the University of Cincinnati and serves as curator of Cincinnati's Brewing Heritage Trail. He also hosts a weekly radio show called Barstool Perspective on Radio Artifact. Morgan is a graduate of Ohio University and the University of Toledo College of Law. After more than a decade dedicated to the preservation and redevelopment of Over-the-Rhine and common sense reform in Cincinnati's municipal government, Morgan now lives in exile in Newport, Kentucky.

Table of Contents

Preface 9

Acknowledgements 13

River Water Ale 15

The Guy Who Was First and the Guy Who Wasn't 23

The First Great Brewery 27

Rats! 37

There Can Be Only One 39

Amour Pour Bière 51

Out of the Floodplain and Over the Rhine 53

Some Beer Bubbles Aren't Just in Your Head 58

Rise of the Beer Barons 71

Corn Juice, Rice and Other Poisons 80

Feud at Jackson Births Nashville's Biggest Brewery 95

The Second Generation Wrecks the Family Business 100

Why Somebody Had to Make a Law Against It 113

Dark Beers Make a Comeback and the Sheriff Gets into the Beer Business 133

Liquid Bread Lines 148

Reinventing Flavor 163

Some Beer Bubbles Aren't Just in Your Head 2.0 167

Urban Artifact Brews a 150-Year-Old Beer 190

Back to the Giant with the Axe 196

Select Bibliography 199

About the Author 205