The Lager Queen of Minnesota by J. Ryan Stradal

This is a tale of family dysfunction and some outright treachery mixed with selfishness, that is somehow candy coated enough to read through without making you flat out angry at any one.
Told from the point of view of three women, the novel begins in 1959 on a farm in New Stockholm, Minn., where sisters Edith and Helen grow up. Edith is unassuming and obedient, bakes award-winning pies, marries early, stays in town. Helen is a rebel, steals her first beer at age 15, studies chemistry in college, marries the son of a beer magnate.
Years pass. The sisters do their things. Edith works in a nursing home, raises a family, earns some notoriety when her pies get a big write up in a Minnesota paper, and people travel from miles around to try her famous pie. Helen, meanwhile, rises to the helm of one of the country’s largest breweries.
Edith was just not born under a favored star, because she can never quite make ends meet.  When her daughter is killed in a car accident with her husband, she is left to raise her granddaughter Diana, who turns out to have a touch of what Helen had, only as a craft brewer.  There is a lot of beer imagery and some history of where we have been and where we are, all wrapped up in a pretty good story.