{"id":341,"date":"2009-06-08T11:00:12","date_gmt":"2009-06-08T15:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.florentinefilms.com\/sherman\/?page_id=341"},"modified":"2009-06-08T11:00:12","modified_gmt":"2009-06-08T15:00:12","slug":"the-american-brew","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.florentinefilms.com\/sherman\/films\/the-american-brew\/","title":{"rendered":"The American Brew"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-614\" title=\"The American Brew\" src=\"http:\/\/www.florentinefilms.com\/sherman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/still_ab129_2104x1987.jpg\" alt=\"The American Brew\" width=\"179\" height=\"170\" \/>This is American history told through beer.\u00a0Find out why the Pilgrims were not supposed to land at Plymouth Rock. Hint: they were running out of beer. See beer brewed in a fireplace in the colonial method in Colonial Williamsburg and on a stove by a home brewer in the Bronx. Learn how Germans changed America&#8217;s taste for beer in the 19th Century and how they became the scapegoats to begin Prohibition.<\/p>\n<p>Hear Fritz Maytag of Anchor Steam and\u00a0Ken Grossman of Sierra Nevada\u00a0tell how they started their breweries, and how craft brewing began. Watch\u00a0Dick Cantwell\u00a0of Elysian in Seattle\u00a0brew his\u00a0Jasmine IPA and see what\u00a0Vinnie Cilurzo of Russian River in Sonoma thinks of his concoction in\u00a0used,\u00a0oak,\u00a0chardonnay casks.\u00a0Plus, the late legendary beer connoisseur Michael Jordan,\u00a0Garrett Oliver from Brooklyn Brewery, and much much more.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To understand American, one must know beer, not Baseball. &#8220;The American Brew&#8221; explains with wit and insight our infatuation with beer in its infinite variety.&#8221; Dick Kreck, The Denver Post<\/p>\n<p>Running time: 60 minutes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Clips:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6Zwi__PCal0\">Cheese wars<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ALNCNocr2os\">The first ever full-glass beer pour done in computer graphics<\/a><\/p>\n<p><br class=\"spacer_\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Purchase The American Brew DVD\" href=\"http:\/\/www.shoppbs.org\/product\/index.jsp?productId=3762908&amp;cp=&amp;sr=1&amp;kw=the+american+brew&amp;origkw=the+american+brew&amp;parentPage=search\">Purchase this film<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is American history told through beer.\u00a0Find out why the Pilgrims were not supposed to land at Plymouth Rock. 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