In this guide you'll find tips for finding primary and secondary sources, as well as tips for researching people, businesses, the industry, the social and cultural components of beer, and how to find information on ingredients or recipes. It is not meant to be exhaustive! Every historical researcher will find new avenues to physical archival sources or troves of digitized documents, but it will provide you with strategies for locating relevant information. 

This guide is complimented by the guide to the Oregon Hops and Brewing Archives, which was the first brewing history archive in the country! OHBA focuses more on the collections at OSU related to brewing in the Pacific Northwest, and the guide includes information about archival collections, oral history and other video resources, digital collections, and published books and periodicals held at the OSU Library.  

The OSU Library History research subject guide will provide general information on search strategies and starting points; guidance on finding print and electronic books, journal articles, and primary sources through the library; and using newspapers in your historical research. 

Finally, use this whole guide - there is a lot of information detailed on one tab that could have fit on another. Explore! And expect tips for using Google Scholar and government resources, bibliographies of frequently cited academic press books and popular blogs, topics and time periods, and digital collections.