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Authors: Ken Wells
Tunica, Miss.
Tunica County, Miss.
Tun Tavern
Turbodog
Tutankhamen
Tutankhamen Ale
Twain, Mark
Twenty-first Amendment
Two Brothers Brewing Co.
Two Druids' Gruit Ale
Tyler (bartender)
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Under the Influence: The Unauthorized Story of the Anheuser-Busch Dynasty
United States Beer Drinking Team
University of California-Berkeley
Uptown Beer Movement
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Vassar, Matthew
Vassar College
Venice, La.
Vikings
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“Wabash Canon Ball, The,”
Waldorf-Astoria hotel
Wallace, David Rains
Wall Street Journal
Wal-Mart
Wapello, Iowa
Washington, George
Waters, Muddy
Wells, “Pa” (author's father)
Wells, Pershing
Wellstone, Paul
Wendell, David
Westgate Bowl/Wellington Pub and Grill/Backwater Brewing Co.
wheat
whisky
White House Office of National Drug Control Policy
White Labs
Whitman, Walt
Widmer Brothers brewery
Wiedemann's lager
wiener schnitzel
wild rice
Wilkerson, Dean
Wilkins, Jody
Williams, Andy
Williamson, Sonny Boy, II
Willoughby, Roger
Wills, Danny
wine
health benefits of
Wine Art
WingHouse Bar and Grill
Winnebago Indians
Winona, Minn.
Winona State University
Winter, Edgar
Wisconsin
wit beer
Wittgenstein, Gary J.
Wolfmanjack
Woman's Christian Temperance Union
Women Against a Violent Environment (WAVE)
Wood, Jeannie
Woody's
World's Largest SIXS-Pack
World War II
World Wide Stout
wort
Wyeast Laboratories
Â
Yardbirds
yeast
ale
ale vs. lager
Anheuser-Busch strain of
beer
in brewing process
clone-purifying of, esters produced by
and fermentation
genetic mapping of
lager
propagation of
strains of
yeast rustling
Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese
Young, Brigham
Yuengling Brewery
Â
zymurgy
Zymurgy
magazine
ZZ Top
Ken Wells, a career journalist and part-time novelist, grew up in a beer-drinking family on the banks of Bayou Black deep in Louisiana's Cajun Delta. He began his writing career as a nineteen-year-old college dropout covering car wrecks and gator sightings for the
Houma Courier
. He left the bayous in 1975 for the University of Missouri School of Journalism, where he earned a master's degree and went on to a feature writing job at the
Miami Herald
. In 1982, his final year at the Herald, he was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for a series on how a vast flood control system built for powerful agribusiness interests was helping to decimate the Florida Everglades.
Wells joined
The Wall Street Journal
that same year and served stints in its San Francisco and London bureaus before moving to New York in 1993 as a features editor and writer for Page One. He's covered stories as disparate as polygamy in Utah, the Exxon Valdez oil spill, South Africa's transition to a multiracial democracy, and the first Persian Gulf War. As a Page One editor, he supervised a small team of reporters who wrote exclusively for the front page on issues such as race, immigration, and the environment. Since the end of Beer Year, Wells has traded in his editor's post on Page One to lend a hand helping to run the Journal's book publishing enterprise.
In his spare time, Wells drinks beer, fishes when he can, dabbles in songwriting, and writes fiction. He is the author of three well-received novels of the Cajun bayous,
Meely LaBauve, Junior's Leg
, and
Logon's Storm
. He is also the editor of two anthologies from Wall Street Journal Books,
Floating off the Page: The Best Stories from the
Wall Street Journal's
“Middle Column”
and
Herd on the Street: Animal Stories from the
Wall Street Journal. Wells works in Manhattan and lives with his family under some very large oak trees on the far outskirts of town. You can visit him in his bayou milieu at www.bayoubro.com.
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For a definition of Extreme Beer, we commend you to our glossary of beer terms at the end of this book.
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As this book was being put to bed, a proposed merger between Belgian brewing giant Interbrew and Brazil's AmBev threatened to knock Anheuser-Busch from its perch as the world's biggest beer producer.
James Page has since closed its small Minneapolis brewery and contract-brews all of its beer through the August Schell Brewing Co.
During a subsequent fact-checking interview, Maribeth Raines-Casselman told me she and her husband Steve had separated.
Author's note: David Wendell no longer works at Wyeast.
Port Hailing Brewing has since gone out of business.