![]() How does the comic-book format break new ground? The Salt: The history of beer has been told before. By Jonathan Hennessey, Mike Smith and Aaron Mcconnell As I'm mixing grain to brew a beer, how cool is it that the tax structure of Medieval Europe affects what I'm doing now? Or, the way that Neolithic farmers needed to store their grain over the winter - how cool is it that that's part of what I'm doing here, now? And while it seems mind-blowing and new to be drinking a delicious sour beer with blood orange and mint from the craft brewery down the street, it's still a part of the story that goes all the way back to the very beginning of civilization - I think that's fascinating. In many ways it shaped the world, and its history still affects us now. Beer is so cool because it is everything. Does a story about craft beer really need to go back so far in time? The Salt: Your book covers 9,000 years of history. The Comic Book Story of Beer (Random House ) Beer was the choice of the "barbarian" enemies that surrounded them, and this doomed beer and beer drinkers to a second-class status for centuries to come. Oriented as they were in grape-growing regions, the Greek and Roman civilizations were centered around wine. John Hennessey: One eye-opening revelation was that our culture arguably inherited a bias against grain-based beverages from the Ancient Greeks and Romans. The Salt: What was the most interesting thing you learned about the history of beer while researching this book? We spoke with the authors about the inspiration for the project and the challenges and joys of boiling 9,000 years of human history, economics, culture and, of course, beer into a graphic novel. The Vienna Lager style of beer was meanwhile born out of a 19 th-century act of industrial espionage. We learn that the covered beer stein was invented during the Black Death, when piles of bodies on the streets attracted flies and it was necessary to keep swarms of them out of drinks. Illustrator Aaron McConnell, writer Jonathan Hennessey and professional brewer Mike Smith cover a lot of ground in 173 pages. In The Comic Book Story of Beer, due out in September, we get a graphical tour of such pivotal moments - from the cradle of agriculture to the modern-day craft beer heyday. So they figured out how to malt grain and brew it into beer, thus preserving a nutritious source of calories. In ancient times, farmers worried about losing precious grain to spoilage during wet winters. ![]()
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