Beer historians and writers Alan McLeod and Jordan St. John have tapped the cask of Ontario brewing to bring the complete story to light, from foam to dregs. Ontario boasts a potent mix of brewing traditions. Wherever Europeans explored, battled, and settled, beer was not far behind, which brought the simple magic of brewing to Ontario in the 1670s. Early Hudson's Bay Company traders brewed in Canada's Arctic, and Loyalist refugees brought the craft north in the 1780s. Early 1900s temperance activists drove the industry largely underground but couldn't dry up the quest to quench Ontarians' thi... Read More
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Beer historians and writers Alan McLeod and Jordan St. John have tapped the cask of Ontario brewing to bring the complete story to light, from foam to dregs. Ontario boasts a potent mix of brewing traditions. Wherever Europeans explored, battled, and settled, beer was not far behind, which brought the simple magic of brewing to Ontario in the 1670s. Early Hudson's Bay Company traders brewed in Canada's Arctic, and Loyalist refugees brought the craft north in the 1780s. Early 1900s temperance activists drove the industry largely underground but couldn't dry up the quest to quench Ontarians' thi... Read More
Beer historians and writers Alan McLeod and Jordan St. John have tapped the cask of Ontario brewing to bring the complete story to light, from foam to dregs. Ontario boasts a potent mix of brewing traditions. Wherever Europeans explored, battled, and settled, beer was not far behind, which brought the simple magic of brewing to Ontario in the 1670s. Early Hudson's Bay Company traders brewed in Canada's Arctic, and Loyalist refugees brought the craft north in the 1780s. Early 1900s temperance activists drove the industry largely underground but couldn't dry up the quest to quench Ontarians' thirst. The heavy regulation that replaced prohibition centralized surviving breweries. Today, independent breweries are booming and writing their own chapters in the Ontario beer story.
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Pages: 160
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Imprint: The History Press
Publication Date: 27th May 2014
State: Ontario
ISBN: 9781626192560
Format: Paperback
BISACs: COOKING / Beverages / Beer HISTORY / United States / General
Author Bio
Alan McLeod writes A Good Beer Blog, covering the detailed history of Canadian brewing and international beer history. He's an avid researcher and writer and has gotten conversations going about the history of North American brewing, working up quite a following , 22, 000 Google Reader followers and 3, 300 Twitter followers. Alan is quoted on the online about us section of Taps, Canada's beer magazine. Ontario Craft Brewers, a network of thirty-two province brewers, sponsors Alan's blog. Jordan St. John blogs at St. John's Wort and writes a weekly beer column for the national Sun Media newspaper chain. He studied brewing at Niagara College and published his first book, How to Make Your Own Brewskis, with Barron's in 2012.
Jordan St. John is Canada's only nationally syndicated beer columnist for Sun Media and is the author of the blog St. John's Wort. He is a Certified Cicerone and periodically brews beers in collaboration with brewers around Ontario. He is the co-author with Mark Murphy of How To Make Your Own Brewskis: The Go To Guide For Craft Brew Enthusiasts. This is his second historical work, the first being Ontario Beer: A Heady History of Brewing from the Great Lakes to the Hudson Bay with Alan McLeod.
Beer historians and writers Alan McLeod and Jordan St. John have tapped the cask of Ontario brewing to bring the complete story to light, from foam to dregs. Ontario boasts a potent mix of brewing traditions. Wherever Europeans explored, battled, and settled, beer was not far behind, which brought the simple magic of brewing to Ontario in the 1670s. Early Hudson's Bay Company traders brewed in Canada's Arctic, and Loyalist refugees brought the craft north in the 1780s. Early 1900s temperance activists drove the industry largely underground but couldn't dry up the quest to quench Ontarians' thirst. The heavy regulation that replaced prohibition centralized surviving breweries. Today, independent breweries are booming and writing their own chapters in the Ontario beer story.
Pages: 160
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Imprint: The History Press
Publication Date: 27th May 2014
State: Ontario
ISBN: 9781626192560
Format: Paperback
BISACs: COOKING / Beverages / Beer HISTORY / United States / General
Alan McLeod writes A Good Beer Blog, covering the detailed history of Canadian brewing and international beer history. He's an avid researcher and writer and has gotten conversations going about the history of North American brewing, working up quite a following , 22, 000 Google Reader followers and 3, 300 Twitter followers. Alan is quoted on the online about us section of Taps, Canada's beer magazine. Ontario Craft Brewers, a network of thirty-two province brewers, sponsors Alan's blog. Jordan St. John blogs at St. John's Wort and writes a weekly beer column for the national Sun Media newspaper chain. He studied brewing at Niagara College and published his first book, How to Make Your Own Brewskis, with Barron's in 2012.
Jordan St. John is Canada's only nationally syndicated beer columnist for Sun Media and is the author of the blog St. John's Wort. He is a Certified Cicerone and periodically brews beers in collaboration with brewers around Ontario. He is the co-author with Mark Murphy of How To Make Your Own Brewskis: The Go To Guide For Craft Brew Enthusiasts. This is his second historical work, the first being Ontario Beer: A Heady History of Brewing from the Great Lakes to the Hudson Bay with Alan McLeod.
