Dayton Beer

© 2019 Timothy R. Gaffney If you’re a tinkerer, crafter, engineer or manufacturer—if you like to make stuff with your hands—the Make it Dayton Festival is for you. Held at Dayton History’s Carillon Historical Park on Saturday, Oct. 5, it will be a gathering of tinkerers, crafters, engineers and hobbyists who reflect Dayton’s heritage of invention and manufacturing. One of the things Dayton has a long history of making—over more than two centuries—is beer. I’ll share some of that history from 3 to 5 p.m. in Carillon Brewing’s Bier Hall . Copies of my book Dayton Beer will be for sale in the park’s gift shop and in Carillon Brewing itself, and I’ll be happy to sign them.  Named for its iconic musical bell tower, Carillon Historical Park is a 65-acre, open-air museum that preserves and interprets stories of Dayton’s inventions and inventors. Among its most historic exhibits are George Newcom’s Tavern, Dayton’s first permanent building, and the restored 1905 Wright Fly...

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...