As one of the most popular alcoholic beverages in the United States, much has been written about beer. Books that provide good general histories include Amy Mittleman’s Brewing Battles: A History of American Beer and Maureen Ogle’s Ambitious Brew: The Story of American Beer. For histories of specific breweries, there is William Knoedelseder’s Bitter Brew: The Rise and Fall of Anheuser-Busch and America’s Kings of Beer, Clint Lanier’s Ted Mack and America’s First Black-Owned Brewery: The Rise and Fall of Peoples Beer, and Mark Noon’s Yuengling: A History of America’s Oldest Brewery.
Readers seeking to learn more about the history of taverns in the United States should consult Sharon Salinger’s Taverns and Drinking in Early America; Christine Sismondo’s America Walks into a Bar: A Spirited History of Taverns and Saloons, Speakeasies and Grog Shops; and Kirsten E. Wood’s Accommodating the Republic: Taverns in the Early United States.
