Pilsner, Tom Acitelli
Pilsner, Tom Acitelli
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Pilsner
How the Beer of Kings Changed the World

Author: Tom Acitelli

Narrator: Ax Norman

Unabridged: 9 hr 30 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/04/2020


Synopsis

On the night of April 17, 1945, Allied planes dropped 111 bombs on the Burghers' Brewery in Pilsen, Czechoslovakia, destroying much of the birthplace of pilsner, the world's most popular beer style and the bestselling alcoholic beverage of all time. Still, workers at the brewery would rally so they could have beer to toast their American, Canadian, and British liberators the following month.It was another twist in pilsner's remarkable story, one that started in a supernova of technological, political, and demographic shifts in the mid-1800s and that continues in the craft breweries of today. Tom Acitelli's Pilsner: How the Beer of Kings Changed the World tells that story.Pilsner shatters myths about pilsner's very birth and about its immediate parentage. Acitelli, author of the craft beer history The Audacity of Hops and the James Beard finalist American Wine, also pops the top on new insights into the pilsner style and into beer in general through a character-driven narrative that shows how pilsner influenced everything from modern-day advertising and marketing to today's craft-beer movement.

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 Dan on January 30, 2021

Like the beer it describes, this book is crisp, clear, well-crafted and enjoyable. It explains the history of how the pale lager climbed to the top of a mountain of other beers brewed from other traditions. The book presents the economic history blended with biographical information on the people wh......more

Goodreads review by David on January 06, 2023

3.5/5…Nothing super-earth shattering here. Pretty encyclopedic survey of the Pilsner, and therefore the lager, and by necessity the original centuries dominated by ales. From the glory decades to the more recent corporate decline of the Pilz, with a necessary dip into late 20th Century craft. Maybe......more

Goodreads review by Fred on October 05, 2020

As a former beer drinker, I found this book very interesting. It was a fun travel log through the history of beer, making the characters and beer itself alive with every turn of the page. Beer lovers will love reading this book.......more

Goodreads review by Josh on October 25, 2021

Really enjoyed reading this. Provided great insite into the origins of Pilsner and its subsequent world takeover. Also provided great perspective into how, what we've come to call, macro breweries came to be and how light beer's dominance is relatively recent.......more

Goodreads review by Joanna on September 12, 2020

It was so interesting to look at a huge breadth of world history through the lens of a very specific topic. Incredible to map out the impact of this particular beer style on the course of history, as well as history's impact on the beer's change over time.......more