Audacity of Hops, Tom Acitelli
Audacity of Hops, Tom Acitelli
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Audacity of Hops
The History of America's Craft Beer Revolution

Author: Tom Acitelli, Tony Magee

Narrator: Mike Chamberlain

Unabridged: 19 hr 46 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 07/02/2019

Categories: Cooking, Nonfiction


Synopsis

Discover the underdog story of how America came to dominate beer stylistically in the second edition of Tom Acitelli's The Audacity of Hops: The History of America's Craft Beer Revolution, the most comprehensive history yet of American craft beer.

Based on extensive archival research as well as interviews with the movement's key players going back to the 1960s, this acclaimed book is the most comprehensive chronicle yet of one of the most interesting and lucrative culinary trends in the U.S. since World War II.

Acitelli weaves the story of the rise of American craft beer into the tales of trends like Slow Food and the rebirth of America's urban areas, and paints an unforgettable portrait of plucky entrepreneurial triumph. The backgrounds on all your favorite craft brewers are here, including often forgotten heroes from the movement's earliest days as well as the history of homebrewing since Prohibition.

This is the "book for the craft beer nerd who thinks he or she already knows the story" (Los Angeles Times) as well as for fans of good food and drink in general.

About Tom Acitelli

Tom Acitelli's American Wine: A Coming-of-Age Story was a finalist for the James Beard Award for Best Book of 2016. He is also the author of the highly praised The Audacity of Hops: The History of America's Craft Beer Revolution, now in its second edition. He writes regularly on beer, wine, and spirits for various publications, and is the history columnist for All About Beer magazine. Find him in Cambridge, Massachusetts, or at tomacitelli.com.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Eli

Very informative, definitely drug in some parts. Viva La Craft Beer!......more

Goodreads review by Ben

I thought I'd picked up Obama's biography, but this book is about beer. I like beer.......more

Goodreads review by Darran

An excellent history of the birth and growth of craft beer in the USA. I had heard a lot of the content anecdotally but it was fascinating to see how all the pieces of the puzzle fit together. A lot of people made really heroic efforts to make craft beer what it is today and reading this makes me fe......more

Goodreads review by Adam

Interesting history I had read Maureen Ogle's "Ambitious Brew" a few months before starting this book. I had been satisfied to learn more about the history behind a lot of the larger breweries in America (AB, Pabst, Miller, to name a few). Ogle's narrative only briefly touched on the contributions of......more