Beschreibung:
The contents of your pint glass have a much richer history than you could have imagined. Through the story of the hopHoptopia connects twenty-first century beer drinkers to lands and histories that have been forgotten in an era of industrial food production. The craft beer revolution of the late twentieth century is a remarkable global history that converged in the agricultural landscapes of Oregon’s Willamette Valley. The common hop, a plant native to Eurasia, arrived to the Pacific Northwest only in the nineteenth century, but has thrived within the region’s environmental conditions so much that by the first half of the twentieth century, the Willamette Valley claimed the title “Hop Center of the World.”Hoptopia integrates an interdisciplinary history of environment, culture, economy, labor, and science through the story of the most indispensible ingredient in beer.
The contents of your pint glass have a much richer history than you could have imagined. Through the story of the hopHoptopia connects twenty-first century beer drinkers to lands and histories that have been forgotten in an era of industrial food production. The craft beer revolution of the late twentieth century is a remarkable global history that converged in the agricultural landscapes of Oregon’s Willamette Valley. The common hop, a plant native to Eurasia, arrived to the Pacific Northwest only in the nineteenth century, but has thrived within the region’s environmental conditions so much that by the first half of the twentieth century, the Willamette Valley claimed the title “Hop Center of the World.”Hoptopia integrates an interdisciplinary history of environment, culture, economy, labor, and science through the story of the most indispensible ingredient in beer.
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Defining Hoptopia
1 • Wolf of the Willow
2 • Valley of the Willamette
3 • Hop Fever
4 • Hop-Picking Time
5 • Hop Center of the World
6 • Th e Surprise of Prohibition
7 • Fiesta and Famine
8 • Aft er the Hop Rush
9 • Cascade
10 • Hop Wars
Epilogue: Hoptopia in the Twenty-First Century
Notes
Bibliography
Index