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Brewing History Of…
by BreweryTowns Travel Company
A project to share the history of brewing beer.
Episodes
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Communitas: Great Beer for Good People
Discover the story behind Portland's Ex Novo Brewing Company! Ex Novo is one of a handful of breweries in the country that was founded as a non-profit and decided to donate their net profits to charity. While that status has since changed, the company has still given away nearly $75,000 since its...
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Brewing History of Pittsfield, Massachusetts
Welcome to the brewing history of the Brooklyn of the Berkshires! The Berkshire Brewing Association thrived at the turn of the 20th century and distributed beer from Maine to the Carolinas. Production was halted when the Wartime Prohibition Act was passed in 1918 and legal brewing ceased for 78...
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Brewing History of Pocatello, Idaho
Discover the brewing history of the Smile Capital of America! The small town of Pocatello is creating a craft beer destination in the middle of southeastern Idaho. The movement started with Penny Pink and Portneuf Valley Brewing in 1996 and has recently added a trio of new brewhouses: Jim Dandy...
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Brewing History of New Haven, Connecticut
Discover the brewing history of the Elm City! Known as the Milwaukee of the East Coast in the 19th century, New Haven has been home to dozens of breweries and brewers since the 1600s. While not all of them will be discussed in detail, the episode highlights the historical Fresenius and Sons…
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Brewing History of Yankton, South Dakota
Discover the brewing history of the Mother of the Dakotas! The small South Dakota town does not have a vast brewing history, but has been home to a number of successful breweries. Schwenk-Barth Brewing Company lead the way before Prohibition, while Backspace Brewing Company now operates out of…
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Brewing History of Leadville, Colorado
Discover the brewing history of the Two Mile High City! Leadville began as a mountainous mining community and was home to number of different brewhouses, few of which lasted more than a couple of years in Colorado. After the town nearly disappeared when the mines closed, locals reinvented the…
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Brewing History of Charleston, South Carolina
Discover the brewing history of the Holy City! There can be no debate that Charleston has one of the best craft beer scenes in the country. Beer was commercially produced as early as the 1720s on the islands and formalized with Palmetto Brewing Company after the Civil War. The name has carried on...
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Brewing History of Ogden, Utah
Discover the brewing history of Junction City! The boom of commercial beer in Utah began in Ogden with the emergence of Becker Brewing in 1892. Even in a state that was not known for consuming alcohol, the brewery thrived until the 1960s. The Beckers made great beer, but, more importantly, set a...
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Brewing History of Truckee, California
Discover the brewing history of Lake Tahoe! Well, at least the northwest corner of it. Truckee was a quiet stop on the Transcontinental Railroad, but housed one of the most well-known breweries of the late 19th century. Boca Brewery won awards from California to Europe and could ship their…
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Brewing History of Omaha, Nebraska
Discover the brewing history of the Gateway to the West! Omaha's brewing history is as deep as any in the Midwest. Led by the big three (Krug Brewing Company, Metz Brothers Brewing Company, and Storz Brewing Company) in the late 19th century, production soared until Prohibition. The trio of...
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Brewing History of Macon, Georgia
Discover the brewing history of the Heart of Georgia! Beer in the South may have formally originated in Macon, a town smack in the middle of Georgia and just 90 miles outside of Atlanta, with the opening of Russell and Peter's Macon Brewery in 1837. It closed in 1878, but paved the way for the…
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Brewing History of New Harmony, Indiana
Discover the brewing history of Utopia! A large group of Harmonists came to Southern Indiana from Pennsylvania to start a grand Utopian society. One of their most profitable businesses was a brewery, operated by George Bentel. His recipe has recently been discovered and was recreated by a dozen...
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Brewing History of Beaver, Kansas
Discover the brewing history of rural Kansas! A local bar in a small town is a place of comfort and legend. In the rural plains of Kansas, a brewery found roots in a community of no more than two dozen people. The population swelled on weeknights as thirsty travelers from near and far gathered…
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Brewing History of Casper, Wyoming
Discover the brewing history of the Oil City! Casper has jumped on the hometown brew scene a bit late (twice). The city's first brewery, Casper Brewing Company, did not open until 1914, just five years before the state enacted Prohibition. It struggled to survive during Wyoming's dry years and...
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Brewing History of Astoria, Oregon
Discover the brewing history of the Land of the Goonies! Astoria has a rich brewing history that dates back to the regional powerhouse of North Pacific Brewing Company. They struggled to commercially produce local beer after Prohibition until the late 1990s with the emergence of Pacific Rim…
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Brewing History of Oregon
Discover the brewing history of Oregon! Tiah Edmunson-Morton, the curator of the Oregon Hops and Brewing Archives at Oregon State University, joins us to reveal the beer history of the Beaver State. Brewing started with monasteries in the Oregon Territory and has evolved to include hundreds of...
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Brewing History of Reading, Pennsylvania
Discover the brewing history of Baseballtown! The history of brewing in Reading dates back to the days of the Revolution with Bright Brewery keeping patrons happy for decades. In the 1800s, Frederick Lauer and Peter Barbey made the city one of the best beer producers in Pennsylvania, while…
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Brewing History of Wheeling, West Virginia
Discover the history of the Friendly City! Home to over 20 breweries in the 1880s, Wheeling became a major industrial hub in Appalachia. The most popular, Reymann Brewing Company, began in 1849 and remained in the beer business until the Yost Law in West Virginia in 1914. Today, visitors to the...
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Brewing History of Kalamazoo, Michigan
Discover the brewing history of the Mall City! The brewing history of Kalamazoo is meticulously detailed from the first brewery in the 1830s through the number of companies that brewed under the Kalamazoo Brewing Company name to the present day resurgence. The Michigan city is most well-known as...
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Brewing History of Spokane, Washington
Discover the brewing history of the Lilac City! The center of Eastern Washington, Spokane was founded in 1873 and named after the local tribe in the area. Breweries came soon after because of the great wealth of usable water in the form of Spokane Brewing Company, Inland Brewing Company, and…
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Brewing History of Tonopah, Nevada
Discover the brewing history of the Queen of the Silver Camps! Tonopah, Nevada was founded in 1900 after the discovery of the second-largest silver reservoir in the country. It quickly became a popular spot for those looking to strike it rich and the Weiland Brewery became one of its first...
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Brewing History of Albuquerque, New Mexico
Discover the brewing history of the Duke City! Albuquerque's history dates back thousands of years to the Pueblo people that inhabited present day New Mexico. When the railroad came to town in the 1880s, local beer was soon to follow. Before Prohibition, Southwestern Brewery first produced the...
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Brewing History of Greensboro, North Carolina
Discover the brewing history of the Gate City! As the largest city in the Piedmont Triad, Greensboro has an impressive brewing scene, but had to fight and claw for centuries to get to that point. Because of certain North Carolina laws that trickled into the 21st century, breweries were always at…
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Brewing History of Galveston, Texas
Discover the brewing history of the Free State of Galveston! Along the Texas Gulf Coast, lies the resort town of Galveston. At the turn of the 20th century, local beer was finally produced in an impressive concrete structure, one that would play a large role in the recovery of the island after…
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Brewing History of Paducah, Kentucky
Discover the brewing history of the Quilt City! On the cozy river town of Paducah, Kentucky, local beer started flowing at the turn of the 20th century at the Paducah Brewing Company. Prohibition brought passionate temperance rallies and whiskey parades to the streets, but the city ultimately...
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