The Most Jeffersonian Industry in America

If Thomas Jefferson were mystically resurrected from the grave this Fourth of July, I’m pretty sure he would spend most of the day gawking in horror at contemporary American life, dominated as it is by massive impersonal corporations and dense metropolitan economies. However, I also like to think he would—like so many Americans will this weekend—take great comfort in American beer, not just because it is delicious, or because the man made his own (it's not like he just drank wine), but also because today’s brewers might be the closest thing we’ve got going to the yeoman farmers Jefferson so adored.