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Beer Terroir - Place and Taste in the Pre-Prohibition Rocky Mountain West - Braden Neihart
Braden Neihart [+]
Independent Scholar
Braden Neihart received his M.A. in history from Colorado State University in 2019. His thesis, "Frontier Beer: A Spatial Analysis of Denver Breweries, 1859-1876," examined how Denver breweries acquired resources and situated themselves in local and national networks in order to compete. He is interested in how beer helps understand racial, cultural, economic, and environmental patterns. His research focuses on beer in Pre-Prohibition Rocky Mountain West.
Description
Not every part of brewing can be connected to terroir. Also, brewers in the past emphasized certain parts of their brewing over others. This chapter explores the elements that are not included in historical beer terroir. What and who brewers did not feel compelled to include in their process and what did not suit them for marketing purposes tells us a great deal about what brewers in the past valued. This chapter covers a selection of what is not highlighted in the historical record.