Oregon Hops & Brewing Archives
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Tap Into History ~ we're here to save it. Oregon State University * Oregon Hops and Brewing Archivist * can be irreverent * love to share https://linktr.ee/brewingarchives
Check out the blog posts from findingaidfriday! There's a 1945 Wahl Brewing Institute Course Notebook, Teri Fahrendorf's and Aaron Brussat's papers, & the Oregon Hop Growers Association records. blogs.oregonstate.edu/brewingarchi... #beerhistory #hopshistory #archives
October 21, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Check out the blog posts from findingaidfriday! There's a 1945 Wahl Brewing Institute Course Notebook, Teri Fahrendorf's and Aaron Brussat's papers, & the Oregon Hop Growers Association records. blogs.oregonstate.edu/brewingarchi... #beerhistory #hopshistory #archives
I'm dictating folder names into my notes app for a collection today and my phone recorded Hallertauer as "Holler towel," "Hall Tower," "Haller town," and "Hollerado." Clearly I need to work on my pronunciation. #hopshistory
October 9, 2025 at 11:43 PM
I'm dictating folder names into my notes app for a collection today and my phone recorded Hallertauer as "Holler towel," "Hall Tower," "Haller town," and "Hollerado." Clearly I need to work on my pronunciation. #hopshistory
Each Friday will be a "Finding Aid Friday” on the OHBA blog, so be on the lookout for those posts starting here September 26!
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September 24, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Each Friday will be a "Finding Aid Friday” on the OHBA blog, so be on the lookout for those posts starting here September 26!
blogs.oregonstate.edu/brewingarchi...
blogs.oregonstate.edu/brewingarchi...
Catching the bus to catch a train for a #hopshistory event in Portland and I’m excited to finally start the @osupress.bsky.social book First Fruits!
September 19, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Catching the bus to catch a train for a #hopshistory event in Portland and I’m excited to finally start the @osupress.bsky.social book First Fruits!
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Happy to see the Guardian has an obituary for Martyn Cornell out today. He deserved that. Even if it does feel bitter-sweet to read it. www.theguardian.com/food/2025/au...
Martyn Cornell obituary
Other lives: Renowned historian of beer who wrote many myth-debunking books on the subject
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August 15, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Happy to see the Guardian has an obituary for Martyn Cornell out today. He deserved that. Even if it does feel bitter-sweet to read it. www.theguardian.com/food/2025/au...
Tuesday afternoon #beerhistory scanning. 🥇
August 6, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Tuesday afternoon #beerhistory scanning. 🥇
12 years ago I started an archive. 🎂 guides.library.oregonstate.edu/brewingarchi... #beerhistory #oregonbeer #hopshistory
LibGuides: Oregon Hops and Brewing Archives: HOME
This guide provides a list of archival collections related to hops and brewing history, as well as tips and resources for doing research.
guides.library.oregonstate.edu
August 1, 2025 at 3:16 PM
12 years ago I started an archive. 🎂 guides.library.oregonstate.edu/brewingarchi... #beerhistory #oregonbeer #hopshistory
Thinking about a recipe recreation to celebrate some women in brewing. Alex is Alexandra Farnham, who worked at McMenamins in 1986 and is the second woman to call herself a brewer in Oregon. {{The first was Marie Kienlen in 1904.}} Get excited for our September History Off The Clock!
July 18, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Thinking about a recipe recreation to celebrate some women in brewing. Alex is Alexandra Farnham, who worked at McMenamins in 1986 and is the second woman to call herself a brewer in Oregon. {{The first was Marie Kienlen in 1904.}} Get excited for our September History Off The Clock!
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Project report from 1959 evaluating experimental hops. 56013, of course, is the Cascade hop. #hopshistory
June 16, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Project report from 1959 evaluating experimental hops. 56013, of course, is the Cascade hop. #hopshistory
Archives love checkbook ledgers. ✔️
June 11, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Archives love checkbook ledgers. ✔️
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Happy Publication Day to Linda Ziedrich!
"First Fruits" is now available from your favorite booksellers and directly from OSU Press!
beav.es/Npj
#AgriculturalHistory #Horticulture #PacificCoastHistory #WestwardExpansion
"First Fruits" is now available from your favorite booksellers and directly from OSU Press!
beav.es/Npj
#AgriculturalHistory #Horticulture #PacificCoastHistory #WestwardExpansion
May 7, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Happy Publication Day to Linda Ziedrich!
"First Fruits" is now available from your favorite booksellers and directly from OSU Press!
beav.es/Npj
#AgriculturalHistory #Horticulture #PacificCoastHistory #WestwardExpansion
"First Fruits" is now available from your favorite booksellers and directly from OSU Press!
beav.es/Npj
#AgriculturalHistory #Horticulture #PacificCoastHistory #WestwardExpansion
Today we had a chat with Al Haunold and Gayle Goschie. It was great. 😊 #hopshistory #oregonhops
May 7, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Today we had a chat with Al Haunold and Gayle Goschie. It was great. 😊 #hopshistory #oregonhops
From the Ruth Tibbits Tooze Papers ~ the WCTU pushing to bring back local option Prohibition in 1939.
April 2, 2025 at 9:41 PM
From the Ruth Tibbits Tooze Papers ~ the WCTU pushing to bring back local option Prohibition in 1939.
A little midweek treat. 🐣
Watch chicks hatching on OSU Extension's webcam
OSU’s annual livestream of chicks hatching each spring gives a chance to watch the eggs breaking open. Tune into the Hatch Cam!
extension.oregonstate.edu
March 19, 2025 at 1:57 PM
A little midweek treat. 🐣
Great fun at the Business History conference in Atlanta! Beer, bines, & a bank.
March 15, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Great fun at the Business History conference in Atlanta! Beer, bines, & a bank.
👋 - it’s a fun article in Library Journal about OHBA! www.libraryjournal.com/story/news/b...
Brewing Up History: Oregon State University’s Oregon Hops and Brewing Archives l Archives Deep Dive
Established in 2013 in Corvallis, OR, the Oregon Hops and Brewing Archive (OHBA) at Oregon State University (OSU) aims to collect and preserve books, periodicals, ephemera, and artifacts about brewing...
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February 27, 2025 at 3:42 PM
👋 - it’s a fun article in Library Journal about OHBA! www.libraryjournal.com/story/news/b...
"We have a new typewriter, compliments Blitz-Weinhard… our panel found Henry Weinhard‘s Private Reserve to be the best of the US superpremium beers…Someone was willing to pay me to confirm … in a radio commercial. It was great fun and I loved it. The typewriter is nice too!" ❤️Amateur Brewer, 1981.
February 15, 2025 at 5:28 AM
"We have a new typewriter, compliments Blitz-Weinhard… our panel found Henry Weinhard‘s Private Reserve to be the best of the US superpremium beers…Someone was willing to pay me to confirm … in a radio commercial. It was great fun and I loved it. The typewriter is nice too!" ❤️Amateur Brewer, 1981.
Is there a better way to spend a Friday afternoon in February than in the library looking for #beerhistory? Nope. 📚 😍
February 8, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Is there a better way to spend a Friday afternoon in February than in the library looking for #beerhistory? Nope. 📚 😍
👏 OSU: climate change and beer research
How the climate is changing the taste of beer
With a fresh fizz and hoppy scent, a cold beer touches all of our senses. But as our climate changes, the flavour profile of one of the world's most popular drinks might too.
www.bbc.com
February 5, 2025 at 3:37 PM
👏 OSU: climate change and beer research
#beerhistory classroom today - sometimes you learn how beer is made and the history behind it!
February 4, 2025 at 3:53 AM
#beerhistory classroom today - sometimes you learn how beer is made and the history behind it!
I read Girly Drinks and here's what I thought! blogs.oregonstate.edu/brewingarchi...
Book Review: Mallory O’Meara’s Girly Drinks – Oregon Beer History
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January 28, 2025 at 7:22 PM
I read Girly Drinks and here's what I thought! blogs.oregonstate.edu/brewingarchi...
This 1914 letter is in the Zoller Hop Company Records and it’s interesting to note Livesley did not, in fact go under. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_... #hopshistory
January 27, 2025 at 7:27 PM
This 1914 letter is in the Zoller Hop Company Records and it’s interesting to note Livesley did not, in fact go under. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_... #hopshistory
I was on the Brewing Society podcast last week and it was a blast! #beerhistory #historypodcast
The Beer Frontier: How Oregon Helped Launch Craft Beer
Podcast Episode · Brewing Society · 01/17/2025 · 1h 7m
podcasts.apple.com
January 21, 2025 at 11:43 PM
I was on the Brewing Society podcast last week and it was a blast! #beerhistory #historypodcast
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Prohibition in Detroit, 1929. Alcohol, discovered by Prohibition agents during a raid on an illegal distillery, poured out of upper windows of three-story storefront. Courtesy Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor & Urban Affairs reuther.wayne.edu/node/8269
January 18, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Prohibition in Detroit, 1929. Alcohol, discovered by Prohibition agents during a raid on an illegal distillery, poured out of upper windows of three-story storefront. Courtesy Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor & Urban Affairs reuther.wayne.edu/node/8269