Dayton Beer

© 2019 Timothy R. Gaffney One of the brewpubs that piqued my interest in the Dayton region's brewing history was Lock 27 Brewing . The name is an obscure reference to an important part of the Miami Valley's history—one that influenced the development of the region's brewing industry in the 19th century. Lock 27 has two locations: its original one at  1035 South Main Street  in Centerville, and one at Dayton Dragons Plaza downtown, where I'll be Wednesday evening, Sept. 18. It was one of several local brewpubs I noticed that drew on local history to brand themselves or their products, and consequently led to my writing Dayton Beer: A History of Brewing in the Miami Valley . "Lock 27" is a nod to the Miami and Erie Canal , which was once the transportation artery that connected the Miami Valley to Cincinnati and Toledo. Lock 27 South of the Miami & Erie Canal When I interviewed him for my book, founder and owner Steve Barnh...

© 2019 Timothy R. Gaffney I'll be at The Barrel House in downtown Dayton this week to share a bit of the Miami Valley's brewing history, especially one Dayton brewer who sticks to this location in my mind. It's one of those strange associations the brain—mine, anyway—makes between seemingly unrelated things. In this case, it has more to do with boots than barrels, or even beer. Nicholas "Nick" Thomas (1825-1913) is one of three strong men and women among Dayton's 19th century brewers whom I'll profile in my "History and a Pint" presentation at The Barrel House, 417 East Third Street, at 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 15. I'll sign copies of Dayton Beer and I'll have books available for sale. Thomas grew up on a farm in the kingdom of Hanover, now in Lower Saxony in northwestern Germany. He immigrated to the United States in late 1847, landing in New Orleans and making his way up the Mississippi and Ohio rivers to Cincinnat...

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...

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...

A black hole. Event Horizon Telescope image, courtesy National Science Foundation. © 2019 Timothy R. Gaffney Astronomers made headlines last week when they released the first-ever picture of a black hole —an unimaginably weird place with a gravitational field so strong nothing that falls into it can escape—not even light. What does that have to do with beer? Um, well, nothing. But, strangely enough, it has a lot to do with my book. One way to think of a black hole and its gravitational field is as a hole in the bottom of a funnel-shaped well—a gravity well . “Gravity well” was a term I learned as a teen when I read Arthur C. Clarke’s The Promise of Space —a non-fiction book the great science fiction writer published in 1968 as a kind of companion to his novel (and the film) 2001: A Space Odyssey . Every planet, moon and chunk of rock has its own “gravity well,” where its gravitational field can influence other objects. The concept popped back into my mind in 2017 ...