North Alabama beer : an intoxicating history / Sarah Bélanger & Kamara Bowling Davis ; foreword by Danner Kline.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bélanger, Sarah, author.

Davis, Bowling Kamara, author.

Contributor:

Kline, Danner, writer of foreword.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Beer--Alabama--History.

Beer.

Beer industry--Alabama--History.

Beer industry.

Breweries--Alabama--History.

Breweries.

Alabama.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (142 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Charleston, South Carolina : American Palate, [2017]

Summary:

North Alabama built its fi rst commercial brewery in Huntsville in 1819, three months before the state joined the Union. Before Prohibition in 1915, the region was peppered with numerous saloons, taverns and dance halls. Locals still found ways to get their booze during Prohibition using Tennessee River steamboats and secret tunnels for smuggling. Alabama re-legalized beer in 1937, but it wasn't until 2004, when the grass-roots organization Free the Hops took on the state's harsh beer laws, that the craft beer scene really began to flourish. Authors Sarah Bélanger and Kamara Bowling Davis trace the history of beer in North Alabama from the early saloon days to the craft beer explosion.

Contents:

Foreword, Danner Kline

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Timeline

Early Alabama beer

The 1800s pre-prohibition Alabama

The road to prohibition

Alabama prohibition

Brewpub era

The Free the Hops era

Huntsville breweries

Hunsville's Brewer's Row

Madison breweries

Gadsden brewery

Guntersville brewery

Cullman brewery

Florence breweries

North Alabama's exapnding beer market

Bibliography

Index

About the authors

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 125-138) and index.

ISBN:

9781439662205

1439662207