Ambitious Brew

The Story of American Beer

Business & Finance, Business Reference, Corporate History, Industries & Professions, Industries, Nonfiction, History, Americas, United States
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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

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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

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