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A. Schmid & Co., 162
Abita Amber, 88
Abrahamzen, Jasper, 68
Absinthe, 86
Acme Brewing Company, 249, 250
Adalhard the Elder, 27
Adams, Cassilly, 170, 170–71
Adams, John, 46
Adams, Sam, 13, 47, 50, 76, 78
Additives, 26, 127. See also Hops
Adjunct grains, 13, 65, 169, 219
Adolphus, The, 184–85
Advertising, 170–71, 249, 251, 252
African American slaves, 97–104, 158–60
African beer, 98–100, 100
Alamo Brewing Company, 205
Albany, 63, 67, 70, 79
Albany Brewery, 70, 246
Albert IV, Duke of Bavaria, 136
Alcohol abuse, 43–44. See also Drunkenness
Alcohol content, 5, 23, 132, 169
Ale, 28–29, 164–65
in Bavaria, 131–36, 139
in British Isles, 20–32
lagers versus, 132, 134–35
in the Midwest, 157–58, 164–65
in New England, 37–38, 157
use of term, 28–29, 28n, 125–26
Aleconner (ale-conner), 26
Alemanii tribe, 126
Aletaster (ale-taster), 26
Alewives, 21, 21–22, 23–24, 37–38
Alfred the Great, 19
Alonso de Herrero, 236
Alu, 126
Aluth, 125–26
American Brewer & Maltster, 116
American Brewer’s Review, 246
American Civil War, 158–64
American colonies. See Colonial America
American Homebrewers Association (AHA), 259
American Revolution, 76–78, 81
Amish, 3
Anchor Brewing Company, 231–34, 246, 248, 255–58, 256, 257
Anchor Liberty Ale, 256
Anchor Steam Beer, 232–34, 233, 242n, 249, 255–56, 256
Anglo-Dutch Wars, 70–71
Anglo-Saxons, 18–20, 18n
Anheuser-Busch, 182–85
adjunct grains in beer, 169
founding of, 182–85
marketing, 170, 170–71
predominance of, 154, 205, 215, 222, 226, 250, 265n
during Prohibition, 212, 215
refrigeration and distribution, 176–77, 202, 205, 208
Anti-Saloon League, 211, 212, 213
Apache Indians, 197–98
Apple orchards, 45–46
Aquavitae, 40
Arbella, 36
Argentina’s Patagonia, 133–34
Arizona, breweries, 190–91, 205, 226
Arizona Wilderness Brewing Company, 190–91
Assize of Bread and Ale, 26
Aztecs, 193, 195–96, 235
Backer, Domine, 69–70
Balché, 192
Ballantine Ale, 165
Balsa River Valley, 193–94
Barbary Coast (San Francisco), 238–39
Barley
origins of beer, 4, 16, 17, 98
use by Puritans, 36
use in Africa, 98, 98n, 100n
use in Europe, 60–61, 65, 136
use in Midwest, 153, 166, 169
use in the South, 89, 94, 98, 105, 106, 108, 113
use on West Coast, 243–44, 260
Battle of Little Bighorn, 171
Baumgardner Distillery, 99
Bavaria, 125, 128–39
Bavarian Brewery, 240
Bayard brothers, 66
Bayou Teche Miel Sauvage, 88
Bean, Roy, 206
Beaver hats, 55–56
Beekman, Gerard G., 77
Beer, use of term, 28–29, 28n
Beer bottling, 173–74, 220–21, 236
Beer canning, 207, 221–22, 226
Beer consumption, 3, 22–23, 157, 209, 220, 248, 265
Beer distribution, 175–76, 201–2
Beer gardens, 148–49, 150, 156–57
Beer marketing, 170–71, 249, 251, 252
Beer oligopoly, 250–52, 265n
Beer origins, 4, 15–17, 63, 103n, 131
Beer quality, 25–26, 30, 75, 79, 135–36, 138–39
Beer rations (rationing), 17, 23, 40–41, 57, 77, 105
Beer steins, 148, 148n
Beer–Wine Revenue Act of 1933, 220
Belcher, Andrew, 48
Bell in Hand Tavern (Boston), 13
Benicia Brewery, 246
Beor, 19–20
Beowulf, 19
Berkeley Hundred Plantation, 95
Best, Jacob, 154
Best, Phillip, 179
Biddle, Clement, 77, 108
Biddle, John, 77
Black Death, 22
Blaxton, William, 45
Block, Adrian, 56
Blue Anchor Inn (Philadelphia), 73
Bock beer, 130, 130n, 155, 207
Böhm, Johannes, 141n
Boone, Daniel, 112
Boorde, Andrew, 28
Bordley, J. B., 79
Boston, 11–13, 47–49
Harvard University, 8, 41–43
taverns, 39, 40, 40n, 46, 49
Boston Beer Company, 11–13, 11–15, 12
Boston Bread riot, 47–48
Boston Harbor, 36
Boston Lager, 11, 12–13, 14, 15, 261
Boston Massacre (1770), 49
Bowery (New York City), 156–57
Boyd, James, 79
Boyd, Robert, 79
Bradford, William, 32–33, 34–35
Brannan, Samuel, 237
Bratt, Dirk, 68
Brauer Gesellen Union, 172
Bremen, 129
Brewers Street (Manhattan), 65, 65n, 75
Brewer’s yeast, 130–34, 139–40
Brewsters, 21, 21–22, 23–24
Briggs, Richard, 41
Brigit, Saint, 110
British Celts, 109–11
British Isles, 15–29
Bronze Age, 17
Brouwershaven, 59
Brown, George, 208
Budweiser, 54, 55, 169, 170–71, 183–85, 202, 265n. See also Anheuser-Busch
Busch, Adolphus, 154, 182, 182–85, 183, 209
Cabot, John, 91–92
Calagione, Sam, 189
California, 231–61
California Brewery, 240
“California Dreamin’” (song), 252–53
California Gold Rush, 236–38
Calvin, John, 32
Camusi, Paul, 259
Canned beer, 207, 221–22, 226
Capone, Al, 214–15
Carbonation, 173, 241
Carl Prince of Solms-Braunfels, 202–4
Carnegie, Andrew, 184
Carpenter, Joshua, 74
Carpenter, Mark, 231, 232–34, 235
Carson Brewing Company, 205
Cartwright Brewery, 260
Cascadian dark ale, 266
Celtic Britons, 15–19, 109–11
Cerveza, 235
Champagne method, 173, 241
Charlemagne, 127, 135
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, 236
Chez Panisse, 258
Chicago, 123, 151, 166
Chicago Fire of 1871, 179
Chicha beer, 189–90, 193–99, 197
Chisholm, Thomas, 39–40
Chocolate liqueur, 193
Christiansen, Hans, 56
Church of England, 32–33
Cider, 20, 45–46
Cincinnati, 157, 165–66
breweries, 145, 151, 243
German immigrants in, 147–48, 152
labor rights, 172
whiskey in, 115
Civil War, 158–64
Cleveland, 151, 166
Cleveland Hofbräuhaus, 123–25, 186
Cleveland Municipal Stadium, 53, 54
Cocktails, 208, 208n
Cold fermentation, 132–34, 134n
Cole, Samuel, 36–37, 39
Cole’s Inn, 39
Colman, François, 151
Colonial America
mid-Atlantic, 72–76
New England, 36–50
New York, 62–72
the South, 90–109
Colorado, 206–7
Colorado Gold Rush, 206
Columbia River, 243
Columbia River Brewery, 260
Columbus, Christopher, 91, 192
Complete Joy of Homebrewing, The (Papazian), 7
Concord, 76
Confederacy of Dunces, A (Toole), 86
Continental Army, 76–77
Coors, Adolph, 207, 216
Coors, Adolph Jr., 216
Coors, Grover, 216
Coors, Herman, 216
Coors Brewing Company, 207, 216, 250
Coors Malted Milk, 216, 217
Coppinger, Joseph, 116–18
Corbie Abbey, 27
Corn, 38, 94, 95, 169
Corn beer, 4, 35, 89, 94, 95, 189–90, 193–99, 197
Cornelisz, Seeger, 68
Corn whiskey, 89–90
Corporal punishment, for drunkenness, 43
Cortés, Hernán, 234–36
Cosby, William, 75
Coulter Brewery, 81
Council of Frankfurt (794), 127
Counterculture of the 1960s, 252–54
Coury, Charles and Shirley, 260
Craft brewing, 231–34, 252–61, 264–66
Creoles, 2–3, 158
Cumberland Gap, 112
Custer’s Last Fight (Adams), 170, 170–71
Cynewulf, 20
Dahteste, 198
D.b.a. (New Orleans), 88
Declaration of Independence, 76
De Foreest, Isaac, 66–67
Delassus de St. Vrain, Jacques, 151
Delft, 59, 61, 62
Detroit, breweries, 151
Dioscorides, 17
Dissolution of the Monasteries, 28n
Distribution, 175–76
Dixie beer, 85–86, 88–90, 90, 119
Dodge City, 208
Dogfish Head Brewery, 7, 189–90, 193, 265
“Do it yourself” mentality, 254
Dominican Republic, 69
Dortmans, Adam, 70
Doubleday, Abner, 81
Douw, Volkest Janse, 70
Drunkenness, 20, 43–44, 43n, 68, 161, 195, 210
Dunster, Henry, 42
Dutch beer, 56–63
Dutch East India Company, 56
Dutch settlers
in New York City, 54–56, 62–72
in Philadelphia, 72–74
Dutch West India Company, 65, 69, 79
Eagle Brewery, 142–43, 240
Ealu, 19
East Anglia, 23–24, 32
Eaton, Nathaniel, 42
Eckhardt, Fred, 260
Ecuador, 192–93
Egyptians, ancient, 4
Ehret, George, 166, 176–77
Eighteenth Amendment, 212–13
Einbeck, 130, 130n
Elizabeth I of England, 94
Embree, Davis, 151
Emerson, Davis & Moore, 151
Emlen, George, 75–76
Empire Brewery, 238–42
Endicott Fleet, 36
Engel, Charles, 144–45
Epic of Gilgamesh, 4
E Pluribus, Unum, 2
Esters, 132
Eureka Brewery, 205, 240
Fairbanks Tavern (Boston), 39
Faulkner, William D., 77
Fermentation, 131–32, 134–35, 139–40
Filtration, 148n, 173
Finn Cycle, 110
First Transcontinental Railroad, 201–2
Fitzgerald, Ella, 213
Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 213, 267
Five Points (New York City), 81
Flanders, 59
Flavius Cerialis, 17–18
Flavoring agents, 26–27, 38
Flight of the Earls, 93
Flower power, 253
Folk music, 254
Fort Leavenworth, 201
Fort Sumter, 158
Forty-Eighters, 146, 147, 159–60
Foxfire Book, 254
Frampton, William, 73
France, monasteries and hops, 26–27
Frankfurt Assembly, 146–47
Franklin, Benjamin, 1, 40, 41, 78, 113
Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor, 135
Fredericksburg, 109
Fred Ziwich & His International Sound Machine, 123, 125
Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), 6
Free love, 253
Freisingen Abbey, 27, 127
Frenchmen Street (New Orleans), 87–88
French missionaries, 150–51
Gaels, 18
Gallatin, Albert, 80
Gauls, 126
Geechees, 3
Gemütlichkeit, 124, 126, 140
General Brewing Company, 250
George III of the United Kingdom, 49
Georgia, 101, 104–6
German American breweries, 152–56, 162–86, 207
German immigrants, 123–25, 141–60, 202–4
German Purity Laws, 125, 136–37, 139
German Revolutions of 1848, 146–47, 152
German-style lagers, 124, 134–58, 162–65, 204–5
German Triangle, 147–48
Germany, 125–41, 145–47, 167
Geronimo, 198
Gianocostas, Dean, 12, 13
“Gluten-free,” 266
Golden, Colorado. See Coors Brewing Company
Gold Rush, 206, 236–38
Goose Island Beer Company, 123
Gouda, 61, 62
Government regulations, 25–26
Governors Island, 69
Gow, Jan, 68
Great Depression, 186, 218, 219
Great Lakes Brewery, 125
Great Migration, 36
Green Dragon Tavern (Boston), 48, 49
Grossman, Ken, 259
Gruit, 26, 57, 59, 135
Gruitrecht, 135
Guatemala, 193
Gueuze, 132n
Guiana, 33, 192
Guinness Foreign Extra Stout, 98n
Gullahs, 3
Gumbo, 98n
Guthrie, Woody, 254
Haarlem, 57, 61, 62
Haffenreffer, Rudolph, 11
Haithabu, 127
Hallertau, 127n
Hamburg, 61, 129
Hamilton, Alexander, 78
Hamm’s Brewery, 226
Hancock, John, 13, 49–50, 76
Hanseatic League, 127n, 129–30, 137
Hare, Robert, 107–8
Harper’s Weekly, 160
Harriot, Thomas, 94, 95
Harrison, James, 73
Harrison, William, 30
Harvard, John, 42
Harvard, Robert, 42
Harvard University, 8, 41–43
Hefeweizen, 139
Hell Gate Brewery, 166, 176–77
Henbane, 17, 17n, 26
Hengist, 18n
Henry VII of England, 91–92
Henry VIII of England, 28n
Herancourt, Charles, 147
Herancourt, George, 143, 145
Herring, John, Sr., 79
Hildegard of Bingen, 27
Hippies, 253–54
Hoftsedter, Louis, 161
Holy Roman Empire, 56–57, 138
Home brewing, author’s experience, 6–7, 263–64, 266–67
Honey, 26
Hopkins, Stephen, 39
Hops, 26–31, 29, 59–60, 127–28, 136, 153, 243–44
Hops shortages, 38–39, 45
Horton, William, 105–6
Houttuyn, 65–66
Howe, William, 76
Hudson, Charlie, 100–101
Hudson, Henry, 56
Hughes, John M., 151
Huguenots, 69
Huit, Rendel, 68
Humulus lupulus, 26
Hundred Years’ War, 31
Hurricane Gloria, 11
Hurricane Katrina, 88–89
Ice, 153, 206
Ice cream, 215
Idaho Territory, breweries, 205
Incan Empire, 192n, 195, 197n
Income tax, 211
Ine of Wessex, 19–20
Internal Revenue Act of 1862, 162, 163
Intoxication. See Drunkenness
Ireland, 93, 109–12
Irish immigrants, 112–16, 156
Irish Potato Famine, 156
Iron Age, 17
Isle of Arran, 16–17, 110
Isle of Rhum, 110
Jackson, Andrew, 85
Jackson Brewing Company, 246
Jacob Ruppert Brewing Company, 54, 215, 222
Jamestown, 8, 56, 89, 95, 97–98
Jazz Age, 213
Jefferson, Thomas, 116–19, 117
Jekyll Island, 105–6
Jíbaros, 192–93
Jim Beam Inc., 141n
João de Lisboa, 133
Jones, Christopher, 34–35
Jones, Joseph, 109
Jones, Josh, 124–25
Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company
adjunct grains in beer, 169
founding of, 154, 155–56, 169, 179–82
predominance of, 155–56, 169, 180, 202, 226, 250
during Prohibition, 215
Julius Caesar, 126
Jüngling, David Gottlob, 142–43
Juniper berries, 190
Katzenmayer, John R., 162
Kempe, Mary, 30–31
Kentucky, 81, 112, 113–14, 161
Kerouac, Jack, 253
Kilning technology, 167–69
King’s Head Tavern (Boston), 46
Kinloch Mesolithic site, 110
Kip, Jacob, 66
Klentz, Frederick, 161
Knickerbocker beer, 54
Knickerbocker Club, 81
Knikkerbakker, 54
Koch, Jim, 12–13, 14, 14–15, 261, 264
Kolb, Frank, 161
Kosmic Mother Funk, 11
Kourmi, 17
Kräusening, 148n, 173, 241
Krueger Brewing Company, 221
Krug, August, 154–56
Kuhn, Christopher, 242
Ku Klux Klan, 211
Labadie, Jean, 66
Labor unions, 171–72
Lactobacillus, 132n
Lafayette, Marquis de, Gilbert du Motier, 108
Lager, 131–41. See also German-style lagers; and specific lagers
ale versus, 132, 134–35
production process, 28n, 131–35, 139–40, 240–41
Lagering cellars, 144, 144–45, 154
Lambic, 132n
Lavoisier, Antoine-Laurent, 139–40
Leadville, South Dakota, 209
Lee, Robert E., 85, 164–65
Lemp, William J., 202
Lewis and Clark Expedition, 199, 200–201
Lexington, 76
Liberty, 49
“Light Beer,” 252
Lincoln, Abraham, 160, 162
Loma Prieta earthquake of 1989, 231
London, Jack, 253
London Brewer’s Guild, 24
London City Letterbooks, 28
Long Branch Saloon (Dodge City), 208
Los Angeles, 226, 242
Los Angeles Brewery, 242, 250
Louisiana, 199
Louisiana Purchase, 3, 118
Louis Koch Lager, 15
Low Countries beer, 56–63
Ludwig X, Duke of Bavaria, 136
Lusitania, 185
Luther, Martin, 137
McAuliffe, Jack, 257–59, 264
McCulloch, Hawthorn, 79
McGlove, William, 236
McGovern, Patrick, 189–90, 193
McKenzie, Scott, 253
Madeira wine, 101–2, 105, 107
Madison, James, 78, 116
Magellan, Ferdinand, 133
Maine, 40, 210
Malt, 31, 36–37, 66, 76, 103–4, 139, 169–70, 264
“Malted,” 131
Malted beverages. See Ale; Porter
Malted syrups, 215
Mamakona, 195
Mamas & the Papas, 252–53
Manhattan. See also New Amsterdam
purchase of, 63
Manifest Destiny, 158, 199, 237
Manson, Charles, 253
Manufacturers Railway Company, 202
Manzanita berries, 196
Marshall, James W., 236–37
Massachusetts Bay Colony, 36–37, 41–42, 46
Massachusetts General Court, 43
Mather, Increase, 38
Matzen, Charlie, 259
Mayans, 192
Mayflower, 8, 33–35
Maytag, Frederick “Fritz,” 231–32, 254–57, 256
Maytag Washing Machine Company, 254
Meadowsweet, 17, 26, 110
Meany, John, 243
Mechanization, 173–74
Megquier, Mary Jane, 238
Mendel, Gregor, 27
Menger, William A., 205
Mercer, John, 109
Merz, Georg, 118–19
Merz, Valentine, 85, 119
Mesopotamians, 4
Mesquite pods, 190–91
Mexican-American War, 236, 237
Mexico, 193–94, 196, 234–36
Midas, 189
Mid-Atlantic, 72–81
Middle Passage, 98
Midwest, 123–86
Miller, Frederick, 154, 155
Miller Brewing Company, 123, 157
adjunct grains in beer, 169
founding of, 154, 155
predominance of, 250, 265n
during Prohibition, 215
Milwaukee
breweries, 123, 154–58, 166, 177–81
German immigrants in, 147–48, 152
Milwaukee Atlas, 160
Minuit, Peter, 63
Mississippi River, 153
Modern Brewery Age, 221, 224
Mohegan Indians, 2
Molasses, 46, 102–3, 103n
Monastic brewing in Europe, 26–27, 56–57, 58, 111, 127–29
Montagne, Johannes de la, 66–67
Montana Territory, breweries, 205
Monticello, 116
Morgan, J. P., 184
Mormons, 205
Mother Louse Alewife, 21
Motor Trend, 12–13, 15
Mount Vernon, 99, 108, 114
Müller, Friedrich. See Miller, Frederick
Munich, 135, 136, 138
Namur, 56
Napoléon Bonaparte, 138
Napoleon House (New Orleans), 86–87
Nation, Carrie, 211
National Union of United Brewery Workmen, 172
Native Americans, 2, 4, 35, 63, 190–94, 194
Needle beer, 215
Neolithic British Isles, 15–17
Netherlands, beer in, 56–63
Nevada, breweries, 205
New Albion Brewing Company, 258–59
New Amstel, 70
New Amsterdam, 54–55, 56, 62–72, 102
New England, 11–50, 102
Newfoundland, 92
New Jersey, 78–79, 141
New Orleans, 85–90, 118–19
New York (state), 53–75
New York City, 81
beer gardens, 156–57
breweries, 65–67, 75, 79, 166
Dutch settlers in, 54–56, 62–72
Yankee Stadium beer selection, 53–55
New York Herald, 237
New York Times, 157, 223–24
New York Yankees, 8, 53–55
Nigeria, 98n
Nineteenth Amendment, 211
Nonalcoholic beers, 215
Norman conquest of England, 20
Northwest Passage, 56
Nutritional value, 4–5
Oats, 60–61, 65
Ogden, William B., 151
Oglethorpe, James Edward, 104–5, 106
Ohio, 5, 154. See also Cincinnati
Old Absinthe House (New Orleans), 85–119, 87
Old Canal Steam Brewery, 118–19
Old Spaghetti Factory (San Francisco), 255
Olympia Beer Company, 249, 250
Oregon, craft brewing, 260
Oregon Territory, 243
Origins of beer, 4, 15–17, 63, 103n, 131
Owens Bottle Company, 173
P. Ballantine and Sons Brewing Company, 222, 250
Pabst, Frederick, 177–79
Pabst, Gustave, 209
Pabst Blue Ribbon, 179, 226
Pabst Brewing Company, 177–79
adjunct grains in beer, 169
advertising, 203
founding of, 154, 177–79
predominance of, 181, 221, 226, 250, 265n
during Prohibition, 212, 215
Pabst Building (Milwaukee), 178
Pabst Park (Milwaukee), 179
Paiwari, 192
Palatine immigrants, 141–42
Palo Santo Marron, 7
Papazian, Charlie, 7, 259
Paschall, Thomas, 75–76
Pasteur, Louis, 172–73
Pasteurization, 172–73, 202
Patagonia, 133–34, 134n
Patrick, Saint, 110
Penn, William, 73
Penn’s Woods, 141
Pennsylvania, 78–79, 80, 115, 141–45. See also Philadelphia
Pequot Indians, 2
Perkins, Jacob, 175
Persimmons, 99–101, 99n
Philadelphia, 72–77, 141
breweries, 73–74, 75–76, 79–80, 106–7, 144–45, 157
Dutch settlers, 72–75
German immigrants, 141, 144–45
Phoenix, 190, 205
Picts, 18
Pilgrims, 32–39, 63
Pilsners, 133, 139, 168–70, 169–70
Pisco Punch, 239
Pitson, James, 46
Pittsburgh, brewery, 80
Plantation of Ulster, 111–12
Plantation system, 97–104, 158–59
Plymouth Colony, 35–36
Pocahontas, 95
Pombe, 98, 100
Porter, 27, 79–80, 107–8
Portland, 243, 260
Portsmouth Square (San Francisco), 238
Powhatan Indians, 63, 95
“Premium beer,” 250
Printing press, 41, 42
Progressive Era, 210–11
Prohibition, 212–16, 218–19, 248
Protestant Reformation, 32–33, 137
Pulque, 193, 196, 199, 234
Pumpkin, 38–39
Puritans, 2, 8, 36–50, 102
Pyramid Breweries, 53–54
Pytheas, 17, 110
Rail transportation, 175–77, 201–2
Rainier Brewing Company, 226, 249, 250
Raleigh, Walter, 94
Redhook Ale Brewery, 260
Red Lion Brewery, 66–67
Refrigeration, 174–77, 202, 206, 208, 220–21, 244–45
Revere, Paul, 256
Revolutionary War, 76–78, 81
Reynolds, William, 43
Rheingold Brewing Company, 250
Rheinheitsgebot, 125, 136–37, 139
Rhode Island, 40, 69
Rice, 169
Roanoke Island, 94
Rodriguez, Juan, 69
Rogue Ales, 53–54
Rolfe, John, 95–96
Romans, ancient, 17–18, 56, 126, 235
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 220
Royal Society of London, 38
Rueger, Theodore, 246, 248
Rum, 46, 48–49, 74, 78, 101–2, 104–5
Ruppert, Jacob, 54, 215, 222
Rutgers University, 66
Ruth, George Herman “Babe,” 11, 54
Saccharomyces cerevisiae, 131–32
Saccharomyces pastorianus, 133–34
Sacramento, 242
Saguaro wine, 196
Saint-Crépin Monastery, 57
Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, 151
Saint Gall Abbey, 127
St. Louis, 153, 165–66
breweries, 123, 154, 166, 182–85. See also Anheuser-Busch
German immigrants in, 147–50
Saint Trond Abbey, 57
Saloons, 208–9, 239–40
Salt Lake City, breweries, 205
Samuel Adams Boston Lager, 11, 12–13, 14, 15, 261
San Antonio, 202–4
San Diego Padres, 53
San Francisco, 245, 253–58
craft brewing in, 231–34, 254–58
earthquake of 1906, 245–46, 247, 248
Empire Brewery, 238–42
Loma Prieta earthquake of 1989, 231
San Francisco Brewery, 240
Saxer, Henry, 243
Sazerac cocktail, 86–87
Schaefer Brewing Company, 222, 250
Sched, Jacob, 161
Schlitz, Joseph, 155–56, 179, 181
Schlitz Brewing Company
adjunct grains in beer, 169
founding of, 154, 155–56, 179–82
predominance of, 155–56, 180, 181, 202, 226, 250
during Prohibition, 215
Schlitz Palm Garden (Milwaukee), 181
Schlitz Park (Milwaukee), 181
Schueler, Jacob, 207
Schultz, Jacob, 161
Schurz, Carl, 146, 160
Scot, Reginald, 31
Scotland, 109–12, 258
Scots-Irish settlers, 112–16, 116, 141
Seattle, breweries, 53–54, 260
Second Continental Congress, 76
Seeger, Pete, 254
Seger, Bob, 124
Shakespeare, William, 42
Shiner bock, 205, 265
Shiras, Peter, 80
Sierra Nevada Brewing Company, 259–60
Sierra Nevada Pale Ale, 259
Sister Bradish Alewife, 37–38
Sixteenth Amendment, 211
Slavery, 97–104, 158–59
Small beer, 102–4
Soft drinks, 215–16
Sonoma, California, 258–59
Sons of Liberty, 49
Sophocles, 4
Sorghum, 98–99
Sorghum syrup, 266
Souring, 132, 132n
South, the, 85–119
Southerland, Mathew, 43
Southern cuisine, 98n
Southern Pacific Railway, 202
Spain, 92–93, 235–36
Spanish-American War, 181
Spoetzl Brewery, 205
Sprague, Francis, 39
Spruce, 39
Squanto, 35
Stamp Act of 1765, 49
Steam beer, 232–34, 233, 240–43, 242n, 245
Steam engine, 174
Stern, Suzy, 258
Stock Market Crash of 1929, 218
Stockton, brewery, 242
Stone Street (Manhattan), 65n, 75
Stuyvesant, Peter, 70–71, 71
Sugar maples, 150–51
Sumerians, 4
Sutter, John, 236–37
Tacitus, 126
Taft, William Howard, 183
Taverns
in England, 22, 24, 25, 28, 31–32
in New England, 39–41
“post” for mail, 39n
Taxation
in colonial America, 49, 74, 75–76, 77
in Europe, 57, 59, 127
grain production, 45
Great Depression and, 218
home brewing and, 6
income taxes, 211
USBA and Internal Revenue Act, 162–64
Tea Act of 1773, 49, 76
Teamsters Union, 172
Tejanos, 3
Temperance movement, 210–13
Tennessee, 81, 112, 113–14
Texas, 202–5, 208
Theo. Hamm’s Brewing Company, 226
Theoderic the Great, 126
Thermometers, 139
Thorpe, George, 95
Tidewater, 89, 93
Tinicum, 72–73
Tiswin, 196–98
Tivoli Brewing Company, 207
Tobacco, 69, 89, 96, 97, 104
Tohono O’odham people, 196
Trappist ales, 28n, 133
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, 237
Tulpi, 196, 198
Turner, West, 99–100
Turners, The, 160
Turnverein, 157, 160
Twain, Mark, 85
Uihlein, Joseph, 202
Ulster Cycle, 110
Ulster Scots, 111–12
Union Refrigerator Transit Corporation, 202
United States Brewers’ Association (USBA), 162–64, 166–67, 215
Utah, breweries, 205
Van Buren, Martin, 71n
Van Cortlandt, Oloff Stevenson, 66
Van Rensselaer, Kiliaen, 65
Van Schoenderwoert, Rutger Jacobsen, 66
Van Steltyn, Evert Pels, 65–66
Van Twiller, Wouter, 65
Vassar, Matthew, 115–16
Verveelen, Joannes, 66–67
Vespucci, Amerigo, 133
Vikings, 18, 19
Vindolanda, 17–18
Virginia, 23, 33, 63, 89, 93–98, 109
Virginia City, breweries, 205
Virginia Company of London, 95
Virginia Gazette, 107, 109
Volstead Act, 185, 213, 214, 216, 220, 248
Voodoo Mart (New Orleans), 88
Vortigern, 18, 18n
Wagner, John, 144
Wall Street Crash of 1929, 218
Wampanoag Indians, 35
Warville, Brissot de, 79
Washington (state), 260
Washington, George, 76–77, 99, 102–3, 107–8, 114
Washington Post, 53–54
Waters, Alice, 258
Weinhard, Henry, 243
West, the, 199–227
West Coast, 231–61
Western Brewer, 175
Western cocktails, 208, 208n
Western saloons, 208–9, 239–40
Wheat (wheat beer), 45, 48, 60–61, 139
Wheeler, Wayne, 212
Whiskey, 81, 109–16, 158, 200–201
Whitefish Bay, 177–78
White House Honey Ale, 6
White Sonoran wheat berries, 190
Widmer Brothers Brewing Company, 260
Wilde, Oscar, 85
Wilhem IV, Duke of Bavaria, 136
Willows Brewery, 246
Willy Wonka, 11
Wine, 20, 101–2, 105, 107, 196
Winthrop, Henry, 38
Winthrop, John, 36–37, 38
Winthrop Fleet, 36–37, 37
Wismar, 129
Wolf, Charles C., 144–45
Women’s suffrage, 211
Woodford, William, 109
Workers’ rights, 171–72
World War I, 211–12, 248
World War II, 186, 223–25
Wreden Brewery, 246
Yakima Valley, 244, 244, 256–57
Yale College, 8, 48
Yankee Stadium, beer selection at, 53–55
Yeast, 28n, 130–34, 139–40
Yuengling beer, 142, 142–43, 215
Zimmerman, Jane, 258
Ziwich, Fred, 123, 125