Great American Ale Trail: The Craft Beer Lover's Guide to the Best Watering Holes in the Nation [Paperback]
- Author by DeBenedetti, Christian
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With hundreds of entries, including top-ten lists for "Best Dive Bars for Craft Beer Lovers," "Best Beer Festivals," and "Best Beer Cities," The Great American Ale Trail is sure to set anyone on their first beer pilgrimage.
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Sam Calagione, President & Founder, Dogfish Head Craft Brewery
Christian has been an evangelist for and card-carrying member of the craft brewing community for many years. And now, with this book, his encyclopedic knowledge of American brewery geography and mythology is right at your fingertips. There are over 1800 commercial breweries in this country and the average American lives within 10 miles of at least one brewery and a short road trip away from hundreds of them. So get truckin' and explore the vibrant, diverse, craft brewing landscape America is now internationally known for."Hampton Sides, editor-at-large for "Outside" magazine and author of "Americana: Dispatches from the New Frontier"
"From sea to foaming sea, we've become a great Beer Hoisting Nation. And Christian DeBenedetti is our convivial, savvy, and good-humored guide. The result of his dedicated wanderings is a tangy compendium that's part travelogue, part practical handbook, and part cultural history,Jane & Michael Stern, authors of "ROADFOOD
""Here is joyful evidence that doomsayers who lament the dumbing-down of America's taste are only Chicken Littles. "The Great American Ale Trail" posits that in fact we are, right now, enjoying the Golden Age of craft beer, offering as evidence a guide to hundreds of bars, breweries, and even barbecues around the nation that make and/or serve the best of it. What a roadmap for taste-bud adventure! With this book in hand, anyone who prizes good beer need never go thirsty again."Sam Calagione, President & Founder, Dogfish Head Craft Brewery, author of "BREWING UP A BUSINESS""Christian has been an evangelist for and card-carrying member of the craft brewing community for many years. And now, with this book, his encyclopedic knowledge of American brewery geography and mythology is right at your fingertips. There are over 1,800 commercial breweries in this country and the average American lives within 10 miles of at least one brewery and a
- Jack Hitt, author of ""BUNCH OF AMATEURS: A Search for the American Character"" (Crown, 2011)
"Christian DeBenedetti's book is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy."
Charlie Papazian, author "THE COMPLETE JOY of HOMEBREWING," and "MICROBREWED ADVENTURES"; founder of the Great American Beer Festival
"Beer is a personal endeavor anyway you look at it. Christian DeBenedetti's "Great American Ale Trail" provides a good dose of nourishment, eloquently awakening a thirst for America's craft brews. Detours, "scenes," local heroes, beer philosophy, key brews, "best of the rest" and suggested itineraries unzip America's golden age of beer. It's the perfect companion for your next road trip!" Margo True, Food Editor, Sunset magazine; author, "THE ONE-BLOCK FEAST"
"What a great read this is--packed with places I instantly want to visit and fizzing with fun, enlightening glimpses of the coolest aspects of our nation's craft-beer renaissance. I can't wait to take a few of
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