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Publisher: Alumni Assn. of the Wahl-Henius Institute, 1911. Reprint Edition, BeerBooks.com, 2005.
Hard Cover, 411 pages, 6.25 x 9.25.
Item #1298
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Here is a hard cover, fully-illustrated reprint edition of one of the truly classic brewing books -- Origin and History of Beer and Brewing. In 1911, brewing scholar John P. Arnold set out to fill a void that existed in brewing literature. It was to be a tribute to the founders of the world-famous Chicago brewing school, the Wahl-Henius Institute of Fermentology, on the occasion of its 25th anniversary.
Up to that point, there had been no comprehensive study of the brewing of beer throughout history. Arnold, a writer and historian, was particularly well-suited to tackle the collossal job of assembling a global history of brewing. He was a former student of the Wahl-Henius Institute and a long-time writer/editor for the brewing journals Der Braumeister and Siebel Technical Review. In recognition of Arnold's contribution to the study of brewing history, BeerBooks.com has reprinted Origin and History's pages exactly as they appeared in the first edition, complete with nearly 100 illustrations. An original 1911 copy was digitally scanned, professionally enhanced and reproduced in a hard cover format. In his foreword, Arnold gave some sense of the daunting challenge that this book represented: "The historian must strive to penetrate into the daily doings and occupations of the people...He must settle down with them, help them brew the honey-mead, watch them till their fields and sow their millet, barley, oats, or spelt, bake their bread and from it learn to make their beer...he must join them at their gatherings, clannish meetings and convivial feasts, when they discuss their common affairs over a stoup of ale or a tankard of foaming beer...He must be able to picture for himself the days of the tavern and the tap-room, the 'Golden Age' of drinking and feasting...Then, and not until then, will we learn and understand the true history of beer and brewing from the early beginning to the present day."
Look Inside The BookThat Arnold achieved this lofty goal is shown by the simple fact that, nearly a century later, the Origin and History of Beer and Brewing remains a cornerstone work in brewing literature. If that's not evidence enough, just take a quick glance at the amazing Table of Contents below: TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter 1: Man, Religion and Intoxicants
Introduction
The Spiritual World of Prehistoric and Early Mankind
Worship and Sacrificial Cult
Man and Gods
Incantations, Ceremonial Dances, Incense
Narcotics
Intoxicating Beverages
Ancient Chinese
Ancient Aryans
The Soma-Cult
Summary and Conclusion
Chapter 2: Asia and Africa
Oriental and African Races
The Ancients Aryans
Ancient China
Babylonia and Assyria
Egypt
Beer the National Egyptian Beverage
Beer in Religious Worship
Beer of the Fellahin
Papyrus Zosimus
Brewing Methods
The Egyptian Beers
Ethiopia
African Races
Hebrews
Armenia
Phrygia
Chapter 3: Prehistoric and Ancient Europe
Thracians
Greeks
Illyrians
Pannonians
Paeonians
Scythians
Romans
Kelts
Gaul
Hispania
Britain
Keltic Names for Beer and Malt
Germania
Character and Customs of the Germanics
Religion and Mythology
Beer in the Mythological Heaven of the Germanic Norse
The Slavs
Chapter 4: Medieval and Modern Europe
Beer and Brewing in Germany
The Period of Migrations
Beginning of the Christian Era
Beer and Brewing in the Beginning of Christianization
Brewing in the Convents
Northern Convivial Feasts and Banquets
Introduction of Hops
Gruit Contra Hops
Origin of Hops and Hopped Beers
Brewing in the Towns
Rise and Decline of the Brewing Industry in the Chief Hansa Towns
Brewing in the Leading Towns of Southern Germany
Brewing Conditions in Prussia in the 17th and 18th Century
Beer and Brewing in Austria
Brewing in Bohemia
Vienna
The Stein-Beer of Carinthia
Gambrinus
Beer and Brewing in England
Ale, Beer and Mead
The Anglo-Saxon Beor
Beowulf
Taxes and Tributes
Brewing and Malting
Treatise of Walter Biblesworth
Statues of the Brewers of Paris
Domestic Brewing
When were hops first used in England?
Hops in the 8th Century
Hop-Substitutes
Beer and Hops
Hops Prohibited for Ale
Hop Culture
Chapter 5: United States
Discovery and Settlement
Brewing in the Different Colonies
Brewing Industry After the Adoption of the Constitution
Brewing Practice at the End of the 18th Century
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