Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just open your current read to a random page and share a few sentences. Be careful not to include spoilers!
What? A book about beer in Houston? I’m sold. Here’s a teaser for you that provides a quick sketch of my hometown:
By 1838, a deputy constable could count forty-seven establishments selling alcoholic drinks in a city of probably fewer than two thousand residents; the first church wasn’t built until two years later. Despite the city’s first Abstinence Society meetings in February 1839 and what has been described as a “wave of temperance” activity three years later, Houstonians never lost their thirst for strong drink.
Yep, that’s us. I’m excited about the subject of this one.
Filed under: tuesday teasers Tagged: | beer, nonfiction, Texas
Ooo! This could be a good birthday gift for my Brother In Law!! Beer + Houston?? Heck, he probably could have written the book *lol*
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[...] with the beginnings of the city (see my earlier teaser), Crocker studies us as a drinking city, and those who have served our thirst. Like many cities in [...]