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Mountain Brew: A Guide to Colorado's Breweries

✍️ Sealover, Ed
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🏛 History Press 📅 2011 📔 Paperback ISBN: 9781609491772
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📝 Description: Mountain Brew: A Guide to Colorado's Breweries

Colorado is the scene of a thriving culture of breweries. From Coors, America's largest single-site brewery, to Three Barrel Brewing Company, found in the back of an insurance office, each and every one holds a unique place in the state's brewing scene. For two years, author Ed Sealover traveled the state, speaking to more than one hundred brewers and learning what makes each place special, detailing their histories, quirks and signature beers. With profiles of breweries ranging from the world-renowned New Belgium Brewing Company to the Silverton Brewery, whose location is so isolated that its taproom shuts down six months out of the year, Mountain Brew: A Guide to Colorado's Breweries is a perfect companion for beer geeks and thirsty travelers.

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Ed Sealover delivers an accessible, field-researched guide that traverses Colorado's brewing culture, shedding light on operations of every scale from massive facilities to hidden microbreweries located in the back of insurance offices. The book thrives on its broad exploration of regional quirks, histories, and signature brews. However, readers looking for technical brewing instructions, homebrewing recipes, or deep evaluations of fermentation science will find the text light on practical methodology. It serves purely as an investigative travelogue and profile collection rather than a hands-on manual, making it less suitable for brewers seeking craft instruction, yet ideal for travelers and enthusiasts seeking local color and brewery lore.
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Ed Sealover delivers an accessible, field-researched guide that traverses Colorado's brewing culture, shedding light on operations of every scale from massive facilities to hidden microbreweries located in the back of insurance offices. The book thrives on its broad exploration of regional quirks, histories, and signature brews. However, readers looking for technical brewing instructions, homebrewing recipes, or deep evaluations of fermentation science will find the text light on practical methodology. It serves purely as an investigative travelogue and profile collection rather than a hands-on manual, making it less suitable for brewers seeking craft instruction, yet ideal for travelers and enthusiasts seeking local color and brewery lore.

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