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Brewed in America: A History of Beer and Ale in the United States (Technology and society)

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Nearly a half-century after its first release in 1962, Brewed In America remains the most comprehensive historical study of beer in the United States yet published. Author and historian Stanley Wade Baron traveled the country trolling countless archives and scouring well-buried resources to uncover beer's colorful American history. It was Baron who first fully illuminated the ubiquitous role that beer played in the development of the nation.

To make Baron's cornerstone work more widely available to historians and beer enthusiasts, BeerBooks.com has reprinted the book, complete with all the original illustrations. A first-edition copy was digitally scanned, professionally enhanced and reproduced in a hard cover format.

From George Washington's hand-written recipe for beer to the rise and fall of the "Noble Experiment" (National Prohibition) and beyond, Brewed In America tells the story of beer in the United States with incredible breadth, depth and insight, and sets the standard to which all subsequent beer historians have been held.

Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction

PART ONE:
Chapter 1: The Universal Beverage
Chapter 2: The Art And Mystery of Brewing
Chapter 3: Brewing in New Netherland
Chapter 4: Seventeenth-Century Brewing
Chapter 5: Brewing in the Middle Atlantic Colonies

PART TWO:
Chapter 6: Eighteenth-Century Drinking Habits
Chapter 7: Brewing in Eighteenth-Century New York and Philadelphia
Chapter 8: Brewing in Eighteenth-Century New England
Chapter 9: Supplying Beer to the Southern Colonies
Chapter 10: Buy American
Chapter 11: Recipes For Home Brewers
Chapter 12: Supplying the Beer Ration

PART THREE:
Chapter 13: The President's Beer
Chapter 14: Encouragement of Brewing
Chapter 15: Brewers at the Turn of the Century
Chapter 16: Thomas Jefferson: Gentleman-Brewer (read it!)
Chapter 17: Matthew Vassar: Brewer-Philanthropist
Chapter 18: The Age of Steam Power
Chapter 19: Toward the Mississippi
Chapter 20: Lager Bier
Chapter 21: The First Lager Brewers
Chapter 22: The Origins of Prohibition
Chapter 23: The Pacific Coast

PART FOUR:
Chapter 24: The Brewers Join Forces
Chapter 25: Coming of Age
Chapter 26: The Brewmaster as Mechanic and Engineer
Chapter 27: The Brewmaster as Chemist and Biologist
Chapter 28: Beer in the Western Mining Territories
Chapter 29: The National Brewers
Chapter 30: Consolidations and Syndicates
Chapter 31: Organization of Labor
Chapter 32: The Brewing Dynasties and Their Enemies
Chapter 33: Victory of the Drys

PART FIVE:
Chapter 34: The Unpopular Law
Chapter 35: After Repeal
Chapter 36: New Directions

Appendix One
Appendix Two
References
Bibliography
Index