Brewing Local (eBook)

American-Grown Beer

Stan Hieronymus (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2016
350 Seiten
Brewers Publications (Verlag)
978-1-938469-37-4 (ISBN)

Infos

Explore Local Flavor Using Cultivated and Foraged IngredientsBrewers are at the forefront of the locavore movement using locally grown, traditional ingredients, and cultivated and foraged flora to produce beers that capture the essence of place or terroir. Brewing Local examines the history of distinctly American beers, visits farm breweries, and goes foraging for plants and yeast. Author Stan Hieronymus introduces brewers and drinkers to how herbs, flowers, plants, trees, and shrubs flavor unique beers.

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Beer has never been a stranger to North America. Author Stan Hieronymous explains how before European colonization, Native Americans were making beer from fermented corn, such as the tiswin of the Apache and Pueblo tribes. European colonists new to the continent were keen to use whatever local flavorings were at hand like senna, celandine, chicory, pawpaw, and persimmon. Before barley took hold in the 1700s, early fermentables included corn (maize), wheat bran, and, of course, molasses. Later immigrants to the young United States brought with them German and Czech yeasts and brewing techniques, setting the stage for the ubiquitous Pilsner lagers that came to dominate by the late 1800s. But local circumstances led to novel techniques, like corn and rice adjuncts, or the selection of lager yeasts that could ferment at ale-like temperatures. Despite the emergence of brewing giants with national distribution, "e;common brewers"e; continued to make "e;common beer"e; for local taverns and pubs. Distinctive American styles arose. Pennsylvania Swankey, Kentucky Common, Choc beer, Albany Ale, and steam beer-now called California common-all distinctive styles born of their place. From its post-war fallow period, the US brewing industry was reignited in the 1980s by the craft beer scene. Follow Stan Hieronymous as he explores the wealth of ingredients available to the locavores and beer aficionados of today. He takes the reader through grains, hops, trees, plants, roots, mushrooms, and chilis-all ingredients that can be locally grown, cultivated, or foraged. The author supplies tips on how to find these as well as dos and don'ts of foraging. He investigates the nascent wild hops movement and initiatives like the Local Yeast Project. Farm breweries are flourishing, with more breweries operating on farms than the US had total breweries fewer than 50 years ago. He gives recipes too, each one showing how novel, local ingredients can be used to add fermentables, flavor, and hop-like bitterness, and how they might be cultivated or gathered in the wild. Armed with this book, brewers in America have never been better equipped to create a beer that captures the essence of its place.

Autor

Stan Hieronymus is a professional journalist and amateur brewer who has made beer his beat since 1993. The editor at Realbeer.com, Stan has written hundreds of articles for periodicals, written Brewing with Wheat (2010), Brew like a Monk (2005), and For the Love of Hops (2012) for Brewers Publications and contributed to several other publications, including 1001 Beers You Must Taste Before You Die. His travels have taken him to breweries in every state in the country as well as behind the scenes in internationally famous breweries such as De Sint-Sixtusadij Westvleterten and Private Weissbierbrauerei G. Schneider & Sohn. Hieronymus lives in St. Louis, Missouri with his wife, Daria.

Inhalt

Table of Contents Acknowledgments Foreword Introduction: The Importance of Being Local Part I – Local, Now and Then 1 Beer From a Place 2 Tiswin to Choc 3 King Corn Part II – Where Beer Is Grown 4 Cultivating Beer 5 Foraging for Beer 6 Foraging for Yeast Part III – From Farms, Gardens, Fields, and Woods 7 Grains 8 Trees 9 Plants 10 Roots 11 Mushrooms 12 Chiles Part IV – Brewing Local 13 History + Local = Recipes Le Pamplemousse Enorme 1835 Albany Ale Kentucky Common Your Father's Mustache Indigenous: All-American Chile Corn Lager The Great Pumpkin Ale Rosemary Pumpkin Belgian Ale Sweet Potato Ale D.A.M.'s Bloom BRU Kölsch Our Mother the Meadow Single Tree: Hickory Dead Leaves & Burdock Birch Sap Black Bière de Garde Paw Paw Pecan Porter Cucumber Crush Beet Berliner Weisse Beets, Rhymes, and Life 2015 Hibernal Dichotomous Wee Shroomy Golden Shroomy Dark Old Ale Appendix: Resources Bibliography Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 7.10.2016
• Zusatzinfo: 34 Illustrations including: - 12 Halftones, Black & White including Black & White Photographs; - 22 Recipes.
• Verlagsort: Boulder
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Essen / Trinken ► Gesunde Küche / Schlanke Küche
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Essen / Trinken ► Getränke
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Lebensmitteltechnologie
• Schlagworte: Adjuncts • Albany Ale • beer recipes • California Common • Choc beer • colonial beer • colonists • common beer • foraged beer • historical beer • Kentucky Common • locally sourced • Pennsylvania Swankey • tiswin • wild hops
• ISBN-10: 1-938469-37-2 / 1938469372
• ISBN-13: 978-1-938469-37-4 / 9781938469374