Pilsner: How the Beer of Kings Changed the World

by Tom Acitelli

Book Overview

Pilsner tells the remarkable tale of the world's most popular beer style. It begins with its humble birth in a far corner of the Austrian Empire in 1842, goes through its zenith and near death during Prohibition in the United States, and concludes with its present dominance worldwide. Pilsner was born during a remarkable mid-nineteenth-century epoch, and this first biography of the style places it in its historical context, where it intersected with...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1641601825
• ISBN13: 9781641601825
• Release Date: August 2020
• Publisher: Chicago Review Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 9.0"