Book ID: CBB001964826

Hoptopia: A World of Agriculture and Beer in Oregon’s Willamette Valley (2016)

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Kopp, Peter A. (Author)


University of California Press


Publication Date: 2016
Edition Details: Book Series: California studies in food and culture
Physical Details: xv + 306 pp., illustrations
Language: English

Hoptopia argues that the current revolution in craft beer is the product of a complex global history that converged in the hop fields of Oregon's Willamette Valley. What spawned from an ideal environment and the ability of regional farmers to grow the crop rapidly transformed into something far greater because Oregon farmers depended on the importation of rootstock, knowledge, technology, and goods not only from Europe and the Eastern United States but also from Asia, Latin America, and Australasia. They also relied upon a seasonal labor supply of people from all of these areas as a supplement to local Euroamerican and indigenous communities to harvest their crops. In turn, Oregon hop farmers reciprocated in exchanges of plants and ideas with growers and scientists around the world, and, of course, sent their cured hops into the global marketplace. These global exchanges occurred not only during Oregon's golden era of hop growing in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, but through to the present in the midst of the craft beer revival. The title of this book, Hoptopia, is a nod to Portland's title of Beervana and the Willamette Valley's claim as an agricultural Eden from the mid-nineteenth century onward. But the story is fundamentally about how seemingly niche agricultural regions do not exist and have never existed independently of the flow of people, ideas, goods, and biology from other parts of the world. To define Hoptopia is to define the Willamette Valley's hop and beer industries as the culmination of all of this local and global history. With the hop itself as a central character, this book aims to connect twenty-first century consumers to agricultural lands and histories that have been forgotten in an era of industrial food production. (Publisher)

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Review Christian S. Harrison (2018) Review of "Hoptopia: A World of Agriculture and Beer in Oregon’s Willamette Valley". Environmental History (pp. 636-638). unapi

Review Steven M. Schnell (Spring 2017) Review of "Hoptopia: A World of Agriculture and Beer in Oregon’s Willamette Valley". Business History Review (pp. 196-198). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Sumner, James
Ilyes Piccardo
Wynne, Patricia J.
Conte, Christopher A.
Jeffrey M. LaLande
Luca Bonardi
Concepts
Agriculture
Beer industry; beer making
Fermentation
Landscape; landscapes
Environmental history
Chemistry
Time Periods
Ancient
19th century
Medieval
20th century
18th century
Early modern
Places
Italy
Middle and Near East
Europe
Yukon territory
England
Mississippi River (North America)
Institutions
O'Brien Brewing and Malting Company
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