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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...

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...