Beer Blast: The Inside Story of the Brewing Industry's Bizarre Battles for Your Money

In Beer Blast, Philip Van Munching takes you behind the scenes of the massive, cutthroat, increasingly embattled beer industry. He dissects in colorful fashion all the brewing fads and follies of the past two decades, including the overhyped (and sometimes downright silly) product claims, like "Beechwood Aging" and Coors's "Rocky Mountain water," the would-be fads that fizzled (dry beer, ice beer, clear beer), the weird ad gimmicks (some of which worked), from Spuds McKenzie to the Swedish Bikini Team, and the microbrew revolution now being co-opted by "phony micros" such as Red Dog (really brewed by Miller). Ever wonder how malt liquor became the drink of choice for inner-city gangs?