Garrett Peck is a historian in the Santa Fe, New Mexico area, interpreting its complicated and rich multicultural history. A former resident of the Washington, D.C. area, he was instrumental in getting the Rickey named as DC’s official cocktail in 2011, and is particularly proud that Green Hat Gin is named after a character he wrote about in Prohibition in Washington, D.C.: How Dry We Weren’t, Congressional bootlegger George Cassiday.
Garrett has lectured for the Library of Congress, the National Archives, Smithsonian Associates, historical societies, and literary clubs.
Andrew Wales: Alexandria’s First Brewer. Brewery History (2016) 165, 30-50.
A biography of Edinburgh-born Andrew Wales (1737-1799), who became the first brewer in Alexandria, Virginia and the District of Columbia. He had a three-decade-long commercial relationship with George Washington, was involved in a Loyalist prison break during the War of Independence, and brewed beer for 28 years in Old Town Alexandria.
The Washington Brewery at Navy Yard, GW Libraries, January 2014.
A history of the first brewery in the City of Washington, one that pinpoints its location at Navy Yard near the Anacostia River.
