Highway to History Podcast

13: Idaho Beer History - A Conversation with Alliteration Ales


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Beer came to what would be the Idaho Territory with the first miners to stake claims around Florence, Idaho in 1861. Small breweries sprang up in all the boom or bust towns of the 1860s. As Idaho developed so too did the breweries. But prohibition had been hotly debated since the days of the Wild West and anti liqour leagues won out in various counties for a time, drastically reducing the number of breweries in operation during the early 1900s. However, people like to drink, so beer returned ready for mass production by massive brewing outfits that would swallow up many independent Idaho breweries. We talk about all this and more with Adam Fleck, owner and brewer for Alliteration Ales on this episode of the IdaHistory Podcast.
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