How exactly did beer and politics become so woven together?
"Politics is, you know, mixed in with the beer. There's no way to get it separated," Brian Alberts, a beer historian and writer, said.
As those taverns sprung to life along the east coast, they quickly became gathering grounds for community conversations, a lot of which had to do with English rule, sparking political debate and calls for independence. During this time, beer was available, but historians say it wasn't exactly everyone's drink of choice, often playing third fiddle to drinks like rum and whiskey. However, some founding fathers took a liking to it.
"German drinking culture is all about sociability. It's all about being outdoors and spending time with family and community, and everything like that. And so that just dovetails so well with the Industrial Revolution and with kind of this downtrend and other alcohol that it becomes like the beverage of choice in the United States," Alberts said.
"There's nothing more American than baseball and apple pie. But you throw beer into that because beer has been present in all of those baseball stadiums since pretty much the beginning," Liz Garibay, executive director of The Chicago Brewseum, said. "That whole narrative, the idea that, you know, oh, we want a presidential candidate that we can have a beer with, I mean, that's something that was activated. I want to say it was first really used during the George W. Bush campaign," Alberts said."I don't know if it was his campaign that put it together. But, you know, that was something that came up in fairly recent, you know, political history.
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