This big book is an incredible history of brewing from the perspective of 1903 since it is a reprint of an old book of that era. So the history covers local breweries from the 1800s. Now the reprint is considered vintage from 1974.

There were small breweries all over the country and this book does a good job of documenting them.

The dust jacket has a lot of wear and troubles, but the book itself is in very good condition with general age related, been up on a shelf kind of wear.