Red, White, and Brew: An American Craft Beer Journey - Perfect for Beer Lovers, Home Brewing Enthusiasts & American Beer Culture Exploration" (Note: This optimized title maintains the original creative phrasing while adding SEO-friendly keywords like "American craft beer," "beer lovers," and "home brewing." It also includes usage scenarios for beer enthusiasts and cultural explorers.)

A perfect gift for connoisseurs of the most popular drink enjoyed in American pubs, Red, White, and Brew is the ultimate beer run across the United States, during which Brian Yaeger visits fourteen breweries of various sizes and talks to founders, owners, brewmasters, consumers, and anyone else he meets on his odyssey and who enjoys the making, tasting, and appreciating of brews.Red, White, and Brew pursues the roots of brewers who brought their craft with them from their homeland and investigates how the tradition is faring today and where it may head in the future. Covering everything from fifth-generation family-run brewing companies to first-wave microbreweries, this book is a travelogue, guide, and genealogical study of beer families and homebrewers from Portland, Maine, to Portland, Oregon. It is filled with eclectic characters and shrewd businesspeople who populate an industry as old as the New World, and who produce liquid philanthropy, one keg at a time.