The Key West book covers a longer period of time, but its scope is much narrower. How is this book similar/different than the previous two? What’s next?Īmbitious Brew was much more ambitious (no pun intended) than my two previous books. This is the second in a series of three posts with her answers. It’s very un-German and you really, really don’t want to be that guy.We recently asked Maureen Ogle, author of the Ambitious Brew, a series of questions. Since there are NO MORE TICKETS to Saturday, we want to make sure folks know they can still come up, hang out and head to the General Stark’s Pub for some bottled beer or wine. getting drinks for your non-SIP-ticket-holding friends,) is not only super uncool and will earn you mega-bad beer karma, but it’s illegal and you will risk getting tossed out by our eagle-eyed security guards and possibly ruining it for everyone else by forcing us to close our gates to ticket-holders only. You can hang out with us completely for FREE! But the catch is that we expect EVERYONE to be respectful of this policy. And we have an open door policy at the SIP which means that you don’t have to have a ticket to come hang out with all of us responsible beer geeks. We like to think of SIPtemberfest as kind of like being in a beer garden: leisurely enjoying quality beers while surrounded by beautiful fall foliage, local food and music, and the company of your beer-drinkin’ peers in the base area of Mad River Glen. In the 1830s, whiskey was America’s poison of choice and was at it’s peak consumption rate (seven gallons annually per capita – no that’s not a typo.) But as the prohibitionists tried to crack down on “the devil’s handmaid,” those trusty Germans and their lower ABV lager elbowed their way into our American culture and proved – for the time being at least – that drinking and violence were not bound at the hip and that it was possible to “combine alcohol with respectability, pleasure and decency.” Which is exactly what we hope to do at SIPtemberfest! So far Ogle has painted a wonderfully vivid picture of a burgeoning American beer culture in the mid-1800s and the concept of “German sociable drinking ” that happy place between sobriety and drunkenness that Americans were just starting to realize. However this is not indicative of the quality of this book and only speaks to the amount of time available to sit down and read it! Admittedly some of us are only oh, say, about one chapter in. The SIPtemberfest Book Club is now reading Ambitious Brew – The Story of American Beer, by Maureen Ogle.
0 kommentar(er)
