Book: Paperback | 8.26 x 5.23in | 384 pages | ISBN 9780425219539 | 01 Apr 2008 | Berkley | 18 - AND UP
Pulitzer Prize finalist and former Wall Street Journal writer Ken Wells set out on America's mighty River of Beer (aka the Mississippi) in a quest for his own Oz: the mythical Perfect Beer Joint. Along the way he samples great beer with the Heartland's raconteurs, probes Elvis's beer-drinking habits, drops in on brewers and hopheads, tours the World's Largest Six-Pack and a bar once owned by Al Capone, and visits an Extreme Beer Maker whose dream is 50-proof brew. This is a vision of America that readers have never seen before-through the frosty prism of a beer glass.
"The best beer book of the year." -Portland Oregonian
"A subversive and terribly well-written book about beer culture in America." -Lew Bryson, Ale Street News
"Any author who can talk his publisher into paying for him to drink his way across America deserves to be taken seriously." -Michael Lewis, author of Liar's Poker and Moneyball
"Steinbeck would be impressed." -Denver Post
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