The Year Every State Got Its First Craft Brewery [MAP]

Today, beer geeks flock to their local craft brewery to sit at picnic tables and sip small-batch brews — a culture that stems from the Great American Craft Beer Boom that gained traction in the 1960s and ’70s. However, the existence of craft breweries predates that sudden rise by over a century. Pennsylvania is home to the country’s first craft brewery, D.G. Yuengling & Son, which opened in 1829. (For temporal comparison, that’s the same year William Austin Burt patented America’s first typewriter.) Yuengling is also the oldest standing brewery in the U.S. The article The Year Every State Got Its First Craft Brewery [MAP] appeared first on VinePair.