The Distilling, Fermenting, and Brewing Collection focuses on capturing and preserving the social, economic, and cultural heritage of the production and consumption of alcoholic beverages from colonial America to the present day, with an emphasis on Tennessee. It includes books, periodicals, pamphlets, government documents, ephemera, labels, advertising material, and cultural artifacts.
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Title: Distilling, Fermenting, and Brewing Collection
Collection: Special Collections
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Wine into words: a history and bibliography of wine books in the English Language / James Gabler
Special Collections Reference TP548.G33 W56 1985
A bibliography on grapes, wines, other alcoholic beverages, and temperance : works published in the United States before 1901 / Maynard Amerine
Special Collections Reference TP548 .A47 1996