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Ambitious Brew: The Story of American Beer
A “fascinating and well-documented social history†of American beer, from the immigrants who invented it to the upstart microbrewers who revived it (Chicago Tribune).
Grab a pint and settle in with AmbitiousBrew, the fascinating, first-ever history of American beer. Included here are the stories of ingenious German immigrant entrepreneurs like Frederick Pabst and Adolphus Busch, titans of nineteenth-century industrial brewing who introduced the pleasures of beer gardens to a nation that mostly drank rum and whiskey; the temperance movement (one activist declared that “the worst of all our German enemies are Pabst, Schlitz, Blatz, and Millerâ€); Prohibition; and the twentieth-century passion for microbrews.
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Historian Maureen Ogle tells a wonderful tale of the American dream—and the great American brew.
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“As much a painstakingly researched microcosm of American entrepreneurialism as it is a love letter to the country’s favorite buzz-producing beverage . . . ‘Ambitious Brew’ goes down as brisk and refreshingly as, well, you know.†—New York Post