Author Doug Hoverson is the featured speaker for the March 26 Thursdays at the U program at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire – Barron County.
His presentation, “Beer Barrons: Brewing in Rice Lake and Northwest Wisconsin,” will run from 12:30-1:30 p.m. in the Blue Hills Lecture Hall in Ritzinger Hall and also will be livestreamed at ricelaketv.com.
Doug Hoverson
Rice Lake was home to at least one brewery from 1874-1974, except during Prohibition. Hoverson will share intriguing beer facts like this and others during his Thursdays at the U talk.
Hoverson is the author of “The Drink that Made Wisconsin Famous: Beer and Brewing in the Badger State,” “Land of Amber Waters: The History of Brewing in Minnesota” and a forthcoming book on brewing in Michigan, all published by the University of Minnesota Press. “Amber Waters” won the 2008 Minnesota Book Award for Minnesota nonfiction.
Hoverson has written about beer for publications ranging from All About Beer and Good Beer Hunting to The Onion. He also is an award-winning home brewer and a national-rank beer judge. Aside from his beer-related pursuits, Hoverson teaches history, politics and geography at St. Thomas Academy High School in Mendota Heights, Minnesota, where he also coaches track and field and other activities.
The Thursdays at the U weekly series is free and open to the public thanks to support from the UW-Eau Claire – Barron County Foundation. Neither seating reservations nor parking permits are needed for in-person attendees.
While in-person attendance is encouraged, most presentations in the series are livestreamed and archived on the Thursdays at the U webpage.
The next program in the series will be April 2, with Annie Jones presenting “Indigenous Ways of Knowing About Wisconsin’s Tribal Nations.”
For more information, contact Laura Holden at 715-788-6207 or holdenlk@uwec.edu.
