Although beer was a part of colonial life in the United States, the passing of the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution in 1919 resulted in the prohibition of alcoholic beverage sales, forcing nearly all American breweries to close or switch to producing non-alcoholic products.

2020年2月7日 · A timeline of beer making in America from early settlers to the rise of craft . The craft beer boom in the United States keeps growing, with nearly 7,500 craft and macro breweries in the United States alone. According to the Brewers Association's 2018 numbers, beer is a $114 billion market, but its impact goes beyond just dollars.

A comprehensive chronology of the U.S. brewing history from 1587 to 1995, reproduced from American Breweries II by Dale Van Wieren.

Brewing in America dates to the first communities established by English and Dutch settlers in the early to mid seventeenth century. Dutch immigrants quickly recognized that the climate and terrain of present-day New York were particularly well suited to brewing beer and growing malt and hops, two of beer’s essential ingredients.

2017年7月3日 · The Smithsonian's first brewing historian explores everything from immigration to urbanization through the lens of beer. And with the boom in microbrewing, she says beer's story has come full...

The American Brewing History Initiative at the National Museum of American History documents and collects the story of beer and brewing in America, with a special focus on home brewing and craft beer.

On March 22, 1933, President Roosevelt legalized 3.2% alcohol beer, and beer flowed again. In fact, there was quite a party. But too late for America’s craft brewing industry. Only the big guys were left standing. Prohibition had killed a culture, and per capita beer consumption didn’t reach pre-Prohibition levels until 1970.

Beer was in America long before the first Europeans got lost on their way to India. Native Americans made it from maize, birch sap and water. A recipe they would share with the Pilgrims who landed at Plymouth Rock.

Packaged in cans and bottles, American beer shot through a growing network of highways to reach a public who shopped in chain supermarkets and increasingly drank beer at home. But in the 1960s, spurred by the counterculture and do-it-yourself movements, some beer drinkers began to explore alternatives.

2018年1月29日 · The History of Beer and Brewing in the United States 1607 – First shipment of beer arrives in the Virginia colony from England. 1609 – America’s first “Help Wanted” ad appears. The job, a brewer. 1612 – Adrian Block and Hans Christiansen establish the first known brewery in the New World on the southern tip of New Amsterdam (Manhattan).