Brewed IN AMERICA; A History of Beer and Ale in the United States
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. 424 pages. 24 x 16 cm. The history of brewing in America begins with the first settlement of the country - Beer was the universal beverage of the seventeenth century. From the 1630's, when the earliest settlers began their own brewing, to 1819, when the first steam engine was installed in a brewery, notable citizens in the country took a personal concern in brewing: among them Captain John Smith, John Winthrop, William Penn, Samuel Adams, George Washington, and Thomas Jefferson. Interior clean, boards and dust wrapper very lightly rubbed at edges. Covered in protective mylar. Brown cloth covered boards. Near fine, in very good dust wrapper. Item #4075
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