Chicago Beer: A History of Brewing, Public Drinking and the Corner Bar

Long before corner bars stitched the social fabric of Chicago's neighborhoods together, raucous pioneers like Mark Beaubien were fermenting over the untapped potential of the unbroken prairie. Take a determined saunter from the clamor of Chicago's first breweries, through the hidden passages of thousands of speakeasies and then back into the current of the contemporary craft beer revival. Follow a path plastered with portraits of infamous saloonkeepers and profiles of historic bars. Author June Sawyers serves as an expert guide, stopping every so often to collect a vintage beer label, explain an original recipe or salute the heady history that sits atop the City of Big Shoulders.

Author: June Skinner Sawyers
Publisher: History Press
Published: 03/21/2022
Pages: 160
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.40d
ISBN13: 9781467149259
ISBN10: 146714925X
BISAC Categories:
- History | United States | State & Local | Midwest(IA,IL,IN,KS,MI,MN,MO
- Cooking | Beverages | Alcoholic | Beer