Berkshire County Historical Society to explore county's legacy of local brewing with talk, tasting
The event is at the Berkshire Theatre Group's headquarters on South Street in downtown Pittsfield. Historian and BCHS President Cindy Brown will de...
The event is at the Berkshire Theatre Group's headquarters on South Street in downtown Pittsfield. Historian and BCHS President Cindy Brown will deliver a lecture titled 'Beer for Their Refreshment: Brewing in Pittsfield from the 18th Century to Prohibition.' 'Beer and cider, by which I mean hard cider, were two of the most common drinks, certainly, for adults, and often for children, throughout the 18th and 19th centuries," Brown told WAMC. "We don't usually think about beer and hard cider being daily beverages, but they were.