Travels with Barley: A Journey Through Beer Culture in AmericaSimon and Schuster, 2007年11月1日 - 332 頁 Do beer yeast rustlers really exist? Who patented the Beer Goddess? How can you tell a Beer Geek from a Beer Nazi? Where exactly is Beervana? Does Big Beer hate Little Beer? Ken Wells, a novelist, Pulitzer Prize finalist, and longtime Wall Street Journal writer, answers these questions and more by bringing a keen eye and prodigious reportage to the people and passions that have propelled beer into America's favorite alcoholic beverage and the beer industry into a $75 billion commercial juggernaut, not to mention a potent force in American culture. Travels with Barley is a lively, literate tour through the precincts of the beer makers, sellers, drinkers, and thinkers who collectively drive the mighty River of Beer onward. The heart of the book is a journey along the Mississippi River, from Minnesota to Louisiana, in a quixotic search for the Perfect Beer Joint -- a journey that turns out to be the perfect pretext for viewing America through the prism of a beer glass. Along the river, you'll visit the beer bar once owned by the brewer Al Capone, glide by The World's Largest Six Pack, and check into Elvis Presley's Heartbreak Hotel to plumb the surprisingly controversial question of whether Elvis actually drank beer. But the trip also includes numerous detours up quirky tributaries, among them: a visit to an Extreme Beer maker in Delaware with ambitions to make 50-proof brew, a look at the murky world of beer yeast rustlers in California, and a journey to the portals of ultimate beer power at the Anheuser-Busch plant in St. Louis, where making the grade as a Clydesdale draft horse is harder than you might imagine. Entertaining, enlightening, and written with Wells's trademark verve, Travels with Barley is a perfect gift -- not just for America's 84 million beer enthusiasts, but for all discerning readers of flavorful nonfiction. |
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... turned red and my scalp tin- gled and chills ran down my spine. What little I knew of sin, this seemed like it. Though I didn't become a regular beer drinker until I entered col- lege, I've been a Beer Guy at heart ever since that ...
... turned red and my scalp tin- gled and chills ran down my spine. What little I knew of sin, this seemed like it. Though I didn't become a regular beer drinker until I entered col- lege, I've been a Beer Guy at heart ever since that ...
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... turned basements all over America into finely tuned mini-microbreweries and are reinventing the very notion of what beer is or should be. Thus, we are a beer paradox: a world beer superpower aslosh in a sea of hot-selling, middle-of-the ...
... turned basements all over America into finely tuned mini-microbreweries and are reinventing the very notion of what beer is or should be. Thus, we are a beer paradox: a world beer superpower aslosh in a sea of hot-selling, middle-of-the ...
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... turned out to be a key building block in constructing a leg- endary beer joint. If you spend any time with Joe you realize he could talk this stuff—music, songwriting, and songwriters—all day long. He's basi- cally obsessed. He's such a ...
... turned out to be a key building block in constructing a leg- endary beer joint. If you spend any time with Joe you realize he could talk this stuff—music, songwriting, and songwriters—all day long. He's basi- cally obsessed. He's such a ...
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... on the back. Well, it was April 1. The joke backfired somewhat when it was later discovered that the rent-a-cowboy Gilchrist had used turned out to be wanted by the law in another state; Joe hadn't thought his prop, who had 16 KEN WELLS •
... on the back. Well, it was April 1. The joke backfired somewhat when it was later discovered that the rent-a-cowboy Gilchrist had used turned out to be wanted by the law in another state; Joe hadn't thought his prop, who had 16 KEN WELLS •
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... turned out to be the smallest part of the action. A few things caught my eye: a sign on the wall that said "Having Sex on the TV Can't Hurt You—Unless You Fall Off"; the fact that a huge number of bras, in various stages of ...
... turned out to be the smallest part of the action. A few things caught my eye: a sign on the wall that said "Having Sex on the TV Can't Hurt You—Unless You Fall Off"; the fact that a huge number of bras, in various stages of ...
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CHAPTER 3 | 42 |
ON THE ROAD AGAIN | 52 |
Slouching Toward Hannibal | 114 |
THE QUEST TAKES A SOUTHERN LURCH | 177 |
CHAPTER 13 | 190 |
ON THE ROAD AGAIN | 204 |
CHAPTER 15 | 217 |
A WRINKLE IN THE QUEST | 228 |
THE FINAL DIVERSION | 238 |
QUESTS | 252 |
EPILOGUE | 267 |
Notes on Sources | 275 |
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