Why do I write about beer? It all started with a visit to a brewery in Washington with my grandpa when I was just 3.
Just east of East LA is a burgeoning craft beer scene that’s led by longtime locals, including women, Latinos and Asian Americans.Mom held me up to get a better view. We spotted Dad and Grandpa and waved as they followed a tour guide past huge machines that sent hundreds of beer bottles spinning and speeding down the snaking assembly line. The guide poured foamy, fizzy yellow liquid into cups for the group. Grandpa looked really happy.
Melissa Mora Hidalgo celebrating her birthday with her grandfather, Miguel Hector Hidalgo, in 1977 or 1978. Grandpa always cared about our education, rewarding my sisters and me with a dollar for every A on our school report cards and year-end trips to Disneyland for good grades. I aimed to make him proud with my academic accomplishments: easy to do in grade school through college — not so easy as a grad student who took two tries, three programs and 14 years to complete a doctorate in literature and cultural studies.
In grad school, I grew tired of writing for these audiences only. I was studying literature and popular culture — fun stuff, I thought — and drinking lots of great craft beer in the process. I wanted to write about these and other subjects for my friends who weren’t academics, for the communities I come from and call home. And for family members like Grandpa Miguel.I had just moved back home from San Diego to save on rent while finishing my doctorate.
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