Ambitious Brew
The Story of American Beer
Business & Finance, Business Reference, Corporate History, Industries & Professions, Industries, Nonfiction, History, Americas, United States
| Author: | Maureen Ogle | ISBN: | 9780547536910 |
| Publisher: | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | Publication: | October 8, 2007 |
| Imprint: | Mariner Books | Language: | English |
| Author: | Maureen Ogle |
| ISBN: | 9780547536910 |
| Publisher: | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
| Publication: | October 8, 2007 |
| Imprint: | Mariner Books |
| Language: | English |
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 Ambitious**Brew, 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 Miller”); Prohibition; and the twentieth-century passion for microbrews.
Historian Maureen Ogle tells a wonderful tale of the American dream—and the great American brew.
“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
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 Ambitious**Brew, 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 Miller”); Prohibition; and the twentieth-century passion for microbrews.
Historian Maureen Ogle tells a wonderful tale of the American dream—and the great American brew.
“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
