Ambitious Brew

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Watermark

Publication Year:
2007

ISBN-13: 9780547536910

<DIV><B>A &ldquo;fascinating and well-documented social history&rdquo; of American beer, from the immigrants who invented it to the upstart microbrewers who revived it (<I>Chicago Tribune</I>).</B><BR /><BR /> Grab a pint and settle in with <I>Ambitious</I><I>Brew</I>, 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 &ldquo;the worst of all our German enemies are Pabst, Schlitz, Blatz, and Miller&rdquo;); Prohibition; and the twentieth-century passion for microbrews.<BR /> &#160;<BR /> Historian Maureen Ogle tells a wonderful tale of the American dream&mdash;and the great American brew.<BR /> &#160;<BR /> &ldquo;As much a painstakingly researched microcosm of American entrepreneurialism as it is a love letter to the country&rsquo;s favorite buzz-producing beverage&#160;.&#160;.&#160;. &lsquo;Ambitious Brew&rsquo; goes down as brisk and refreshingly as, well, you know.&rdquo; &mdash;<I>New York Post</I></DIV>