The explosion in craft-beer brewing and consumption is not limited to hipster locales like Seattle, Portland, and Brooklyn, as Lee Graves illustrates in Virginia Beer: A Guide from Colonial Days to Craft’s Golden Age (Univ. of Virginia Press, Oct.). Five years ago, there were 40 breweries in Virginia; now there are 213, with 30 in the works, according to Graves, the award-winning beer columnist for the Richmond Times-Dispatch and the author of Richmond Beer. Virginia Beer shows how the Old Dominion’s central role in the current beer craze is no accident, given that America’s beer tradition began in Virginia with the settlers at Jamestown, who brought the first beer to the American continent in 1607. The book is extensively illustrated and suggests numerous brewery tours that will point you in the right direction for a statewide beer crawl.