Dayton Beer

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...

Another brewer has leased the former Eudora Brewing location in Kettering, according to a news report. Gaffney photo. © 2019 Timothy R. Gaffney Call this errata sheet no. 1. As Dayton Beer heads for the printer, this region's brewing history just won't stand still. I've been boasting that my new history of brewing in the Miami Valley includes a complete, up-to-date directory of all the brewpubs from Dayton to Grand Lake. But that's about to change, according to Mark Fisher, retail and restaurants reporter for the Dayton Daily News . Last weekend, Fisher broke the news that another brewery is on its way.  Pat Sullivan, the brewer behind Nowhere in Particular, has signed a lease for a space at 4716 Wilmington Pike in Kettering —the space that was the home of Eudora Brewing Co. until it moved to larger quarters at  3022 Wilmington Pike. Sullivan (aka Charlie Navillus ) is known in brewing circles as a wandering brewer who makes use (with permission) of ot...