Bitter Brew: The Rise and Fall of Anheuser-Busch and America’s Kings of Beer

For over a hundred years, Anheuser-Busch — specifically Budweiser — was an American empire. It’s a company that managed to survive Prohibition, the Great Depression, and a finicky market that wanted to stray from an old blue collar beverage in favor of newer “light” beers, wines, and specialty microbrews. Yet the company was always able