Virginia Beer: A Guide from Colonial Days to Craft's Golden Age

The days of choosing between a handful of imports and a convenience store six—pack are long gone. The beer landscape in America has changed dramatically in the twenty—first century, as the nation has experienced an explosion in craft beer brewing and consumption. Nowhere is this truer than in Virginia, where more than two hundred independent breweries create beers of an unprecedented variety and serve an increasingly knowledgeable, and thirsty, population of beer enthusiasts.

As Lee Graves s...