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About The Book
A Few Words From Jim Koch of The
Boston Beer Company, Brewer of Samuel
Adams Beer:
"Looking back at the history of beer and brewing in
our country, I like to think that we pay tribute daily
at The Boston Beer Company to the resourcefulness
of our country’s earliest brewers. During the colonial
era and leading up to the War of Independence, a
lack of traditional brewing materials often led to the
creation of some unique American brews. It’s not a
stretch of the imagination to conclude that the
ingenuity that early brewers demonstrated in
making these beers was reflective of our emerging
national character as a resourceful people.
Americans have always loved a challenge, and so do
we at The Boston Beer Company. That’s why in 2006
we introduced The Samuel Adams Brewer Patriot
Collection, four beers that represent some of our
country’s earliest beer styles that were favored by the
founding fathers.
As Bob Skilnik’s Beer & Food: An American History
details colonial patriots such as Washington,
Jefferson, Madison, and yes, Samuel Adams, all
enjoyed hoisting a beer or two of their own making.
Forced to depend on sporadic supplies of brewing
materials from England, independent-minded
Americans looked instead to the bounty of their
young country, regularly brewing beers using the
unconventional ingredients of ginger, blackstrap
molasses, and even licorice to make unique brews
that had faded, until now, into our colorful brewing
history.
Beer lovers will agree that good beer goes with good
food, whether it’s simply a small plate of artisan
cheeses or regional specialties such as New England
Cheddar Cheese, a grilled Wisconsin bratwurst or a
steaming bowl of Louisiana Jambalaya. But these
foods, like others that we almost instinctively pair
today with contemporary beers, have their origins in
our culinary past, when “making do” also helped to
inspire the creation of some classic American dishes.
Beer & Food lays out the historical origins of how
and why we Americans pair certain foods with a
variety of beers, starting with the earliest recorded
example of colonial housewives taking their last bit
of homebrew and transforming an ordinary beef stew
into a dish that surely had the household coming
back to the hearth for more!
From our country’s colonial past, through world wars
with their grain restrictions and food rationing -- and
even National Prohibition -- American beer and food
have seen highs and lows in quality and taste. But in
the last two decades, there’s been an awakening of
our quest for matching good beer with tasty foods
that has turned our culinary pairings from the once
mundane to the often inspired.
Beer & Food: An American History details it all.
Pour yourself a great American craft beer (I hope it
will be a Samuel Adams) -- pull up a seat, and take a
look at our country’s distinguished beery past and
present!"
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