Introduction
Beer Terroir - Place and Taste in the Pre-Prohibition Rocky Mountain West - Braden Neihart
Braden Neihart [+]
Independent Scholar
Braden Neihart received his M.A. in history from Colorado State University in 2019. His thesis, "Frontier Beer: A Spatial Analysis of Denver Breweries, 1859-1876," examined how Denver breweries acquired resources and situated themselves in local and national networks in order to compete. He is interested in how beer helps understand racial, cultural, economic, and environmental patterns. His research focuses on beer in Pre-Prohibition Rocky Mountain West.
Description
Here, we will introduce the Rocky Mountain region and its geography. The landscapes are crucial to understanding terroir, and so ample coverage of the physical makeup and boundaries of this region are crucial. I will also discuss the concept of terroir and how its application to wine can be useful to understanding beer, and by extension a study of the confluence of historical, geographical, environmental, and cultural factors in the Rocky Mountains.