Garrett Peck
Author
Language
English
Description
An effervescent history of beer brewing in the American capital city.
Imagine the jubilation of thirsty citizens in 1796 when the Washington Brewery-the city's first brewery-opened. Yet the English-style ales produced by the early breweries in the capital and in nearby Arlington and Alexandria sat heavy on the tongue in the oppressive Potomac summers. By the 1850s, an influx of German immigrants gave a frosty reprieve to their new home in the form...