Arkansas Beer

Arkansas Beer - An Intoxicating History

Authors

• Brian Sorensen
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Introduction

Arkansas’s booze scene had a promising start, with America’s biggest brewing families, Busch and Lemp, investing in Little Rock just prior to Prohibition. However, by 1915, the state had passed the Newberry Act, banning the manufacturing and selling of alcohol. It was not until sixty-nine years later that the state welcomed its first post-temperance brewery, Arkansas Brewing Company. After a few false starts, brewpubs in Fayetteville, Fort Smith and Little Rock found success. By 2000, the industry had regained momentum. An explosion of breweries around the state has since propelled Arkansas into the modern beer age.

Parts and Chapters

• Early Arkansas Brewers
• Brewing after Prohibition
• Laying the Groundwork
• Diamond Bear Brewing Company
• Brewing in the Ozarks
• Little Rock Brewers
• The Hinterland
• The Shape of Things to Come