Ambitious Brew: A History of American Beer: Revised Edition

AMBITIOUS BREW is the story of how beer became American. In the mid-nineteenth century, a wave of German immigrants, dismayed by Americans' penchant for whiskey and drunkenness, re-created their beloved, old-world bier culture. Fifty years later, the American-style lager beer they invented was the nation's most popular beverage---and brewing was the nation's fifth-largest industry, ruled by titans Frederick Pabst and Adolphus Busch. But brewers' ambitions collided with Americans' continued ...