Dayton Beer

Warped Wing and Barrel House are in the heart of Dayton's original brewing district. © 2019 Timothy R. Gaffney When you visit the Warped Wing Brewing Co.  or The Barrel House in downtown Dayton— as I will on Aug. 7  and Aug. 15 —you journey to the heart of Dayton's Historic Brewing District. Warped Wing occupies a former foundry building at 26 Wyandot Street, just south of East Main between North Patterson Boulevard and Wayne Avenue. The Barrel House is in an old commercial building at 417 E. Third. They're both close to where Dayton's founders built their first cabins and close to where its first breweries opened. George Newcom, one of Dayton's original settlers, built his cabin    on the southwest corner of Main and Monument in 1796 and later enlarged it  into a two-story tavern. He added a brewery  about 1810. It was Montgomery County's first brewery, according to historian Augustus Waldo Drury . Sketch of Newcom Tavern, from Lutzenb...

For Immediate Release July 24, 2019 (Updated July 31)  For interviews and events, contact Timothy R. Gaffney 937.219.8277 | daytonbeerbook@gmail.com For review copies, contact Haley Johnson, Senior Publicist 843.853.2070 x214 | hjohnson@arcadiapublishing.com Editors:  Contact Timothy R. Gaffney for a digital press kit with additional information and a selection of press-quality photos, including an author photo and book cover image. History… and a Pint? Dayton Beer author plans unique book tour  DAYTON, Ohio —A one-of-a-kind book tour will kick off Wednesday, Aug. 7 at Warped Wing Brewing Co. in downtown Dayton. Instead of book shops, the “ History and a Pint TM ” tour by local author Timothy R. Gaffney will stop exclusively at brewpubs and tap houses across the Dayton region. The reason? Gaffney’s new book, Dayton Beer: A History of Brewing in the Miami Valley (The History Press, $21.99) is focused on the 200-plus year histor...

Here's what 300 copies of Dayton Beer looked like on my front porch. © 2019 Timothy R. Gaffney This is how my front porch looked the other day. I finally have books in hand—300 of ‘em. They should also be showing up in local stores, and I’ll publish a list of places carrying the book as soon as I get it. Below is how my living room looked a few minutes later. I hope to be selling and signing a good portion of these books in the near future on my History and a Pint™ book tour. Welcome to my living room. I hope you'll join me to talk about local brewing history over a pint, but you must do one of two things: 1), show up; or 2), find my event page on Facebook and click “Going,” and then show up. I’ll save you the searching. I made all the event pages under one Facebook business page, “Dayton Beer Book Tour.” Facebook page cover image for Dayton Beer Book Tour And here are links to each individual Facebook event page: Wednesday Aug 7—5:00 pm War...

Mike Morgan (in blue) interviews me at Fifth Street Brew Pub. Photo courtesy Bret Kallmann Baker. Dayton Beer isn’t out yet, but it seems to be drawing more attention already to Dayton’s brewing history. A few weeks ago, I got a query out of the blue from Michael D. Morgan of Newport, Ky. He wanted to interview me for a web TV episode about Dayton’s brewing past. To be honest, my book has been so all-consuming that I’ve only paid attention to Cincinnati when it related to the brewers and breweries I was writing about in Dayton and surrounding counties. So I wasn't very familiar with Morgan, but I quickly learned he's the resident expert on brewing history in the Cincinnati region as president of Queen City History & Education . He teaches "Hops and History" at the University of Cincinnati and serves as curator of Cincinnati's Brewing Heritage Trail. He also hosts a weekly radio show called Barstool Perspective on Radio Artifact, and he’s writte...

Printable flyer for History and a Pint™ book tour © 2019 Timothy R. Gaffney  (Update, Aug. 14, 2019: New tour dates added.) Want to know how I feel right now? Just climb into a barrel, have someone seal it, and then have them toss you over Niagara Falls. I always get this sense of an inexorable, uncontrollable rush as my book approaches publication. Dayton Beer is scheduled to come off the press by July 22, and less than three weeks later—August 7—I'll launch my book tour, History and a Pint ™,  at Warped Wing Brewing . After that, I'll be visiting one brewpub and tap house after another in rapid succession. And there's no turning back. I'm already over the falls. Dayton Daily News food columnist Mark Fisher saw to that on Monday, July 1, when he published the first review of my book . Now, it's official. This will be different from anything I've tried before. I'm used to signing books in book shops and at traditional speakin...