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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
This chapter considers the beer terroir of the Rocky Mountains and looks at how connected and interlaced this region is or is not. I also want to project this framework onto other parts of the US and consider how they might be useful heuristics to understand regions in terms of their beer terroir, and how certain geographies can unite or divide regions along foodway lines.