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Red, White, and Brew: An American Beer Odyssey | 
 enlarge | Author: Brian Yaeger
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Category: Book
List Price: $14.95
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Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 150011
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 272
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 8.2 x 5.5 x 0.8
ISBN: 0312383142
Dewey Decimal Number: 338.47663420973
EAN: 9780312383145
ASIN: 0312383142
Publication Date: September 30, 2008
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Product Description
Red, White, and Brew is the ultimate beer run across the United States, during which Brian Yaeger visits fourteen breweries of various sizes and talks to founders, owners, brewmasters, consumers, and anyone else he meets on his odyssey and who enjoys the making, tasting, and appreciating of brews. Red, White, and Brew pursues the roots of brewers who brought their craft with them from their homeland and investigates how the tradition is faring today and where it may head in the future. Covering everything from fifth-generation family-run brewing companies to first-wave microbreweries, this book is a travelogue, guide, and genealogical study of beer families and homebrewers from Portland, Maine, to Portland, Oregon. It is filled with eclectic characters and shrewd businesspeople who populate an industry as old as the New World, and who produce liquid philanthropy, one keg at a time.
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Learned a bunch about good beer! December 18, 2008
I've been into good beer for many years, but I had never taken my love of brew to the level of reading about it until now. RW&B was a great read, and like the title of the review says, I learned a ton about beer from it. I learned about the background of beers I had been drinking for years and about the brewing business in general. The author drives all over the country to various craft breweries, where he meets and drinks with brewers and brewery owners as he goes. It's a fun read that will make you thirsty for good beer, will make you want to go on a road trip, and may get you to thinking about trying some home brewing out in garage.
Excellent read December 12, 2008
Red, White, and Brew: An American Beer Odyssey
I bought two of these books one for myself & one for my son in law. I am not one for taking the time to read, bought I found this book very interesting.If you like beer or just like to know how breweries got there start. Than buy this book. You won't be sorry.
Great gift for a beer aficionado November 26, 2008
I ordered this book for a friend who is into microbrews and he was thrilled with the gift and excited to read about a man's traveling across the country to visit breweries.
Inspiring, but definitely not a tasting guide! November 16, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
As I make my way through Red, White and Brew I'm struck by how many fascinating stories there are to be told by those who make the beer we all love to drink. The strength of this book is in the history and perspectives of those personalities that Yaeger interviews along his journey through my neighbouring country to the south. (Yes, I am a Canadian who loves a good American microbrew.)
It's important to realize you won't learn much from this book about which beer you should be bringing home from the corner store; you will, however, uncover a ton of history about the brewery that made that beer, the people behind it, the business ups and downs, the process, and the blood sweat and tears that go into every bottle... uh, figuratively that is.
But the main takeaway for me was a new appreciation for how democratic beer can be. The Anheuser-Busch and MillerCoors of the world might prefer you to believe that beer must come from large breweries, but the people in Red White and Brew all started down their various paths with a very different idea in mind. Beer is what you make of it, and for someone with a passion, putting *good* beer in the fridge is something you can always do for yourself. It just takes one trip down to the local homebrew store, and you're on your way.
As I've already warned my girlfriend, the day may arrive where I come home with a few bags of malt and hops, and start putting into practice the ideas I now have percolating in my mind thanks to Red, White and Brew.
 A Good Beer Road Trip October 27, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
It's a pretty good read about a man's odessy (he actually uses this word many times) to travel the United States, visiting various breweries and brewpubs. He sticks mainly to long established, family run breweries and some many of the chapters are often mini-family business histories. The large Coors/ Miller / Anheiser-Busch breweries are often referenced, but aren't visited. The author seems more interested in the history of each business than the product. The strength of the book is that Jaeger is a top-notch interviewer. It's no small feat in this book, when in many cases, he had already downed a few cold ones before the interview.
Surprisingly, there's little said about how the end product of each brewery tastes. The author also visits a bunch of brewpubs on the trip, but too many times, just breezes through the visit leaving the author to wonder what each place is really like. Anyone looking for any sort of insights as to how each different place on the map fits into its time and place is going to go away a bit unsatisfied.
Given the strength and weaknesses, I'd give it 3 1/2 stars so I'll round it up to four stars. Beer enthusiasts will enjoy it, but others may want to look elsewhere in the road trip genre.
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