Dayton brewing: lights, camera, beer
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...