Job Carr, Allen Mason, Murray Morgan, Michael Sullivan — when Grit and Grain ponders Tacoma’s history, these names pop into our minds. In fact, Michael Sullivan, the only one of those men associated with Tacoma’s history who is still alive, was honored with the Tacoma Historical Society’s Murray Morgan Award in 2017 for his decades-long roster of contributions to the preservation and presentation of all things Tacoma history. With a master’s and doctorate degrees in history from Western Washington University and the University of Washington, respectively, Sullivan knows the deep history of beer in Tacoma as you’ll discover in Grit & Grain Episode 63. He takes us back to Tacoma’s early railroad days when working-class Scandinavians, Austria/Hungarians, and Germans arrived to helped make Tacoma a major beer city. Sullivan discusses the brass tacks of our first breweries including Puget Sound Brewery, Columbia Brewery and Pacific Brewing & Malting, how the breweries helped build the city, and where an 800-pound bear named Jack drank.
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