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Good books, like good beers, matter – both are wonderful ways to spend your time while you’re here on Earth. That’s why we first introduced our Good Books series in 2013 and it quickly became one of our most popular features. With the holiday shopping season now upon us – we thought it might be helpful to hit up the Good Books archives and highlight some books that might make perfect gifts for that craft beer lover of yours…
So welcome to our special Holiday Edition of Good Books – ACB’s Guide to New Books on Beer and Anything Else That We’re Reading.
For craft beer’s most passionate fans, we suggest…
We Make Beer: Inside the Spirit and Artistry of America’s Craft Brewers by Sean Lewis
Sean Lewis is a sports and beer writer based in Santa Barbara, California. We Make Beer is his first book and it tells an almost spiritual story of his journey into the heart of the American craft brewing community, where he hung out with craft beer icons like Sierra Nevada’s Ken Grossman and shared beer with larger than life characters like Stone’s Greg Koch. But We Make Beer is more than just a personal travelogue; it’s also an infectious celebration of the American craft brewing scene – and of the many people who’ve helped to make it the vital and innovative industry it is today.
For those interested in craft beer as art, try…
Canned!: Artwork of the Modern American Beer Can by Russ Phillips
Russ Phillips’s Canned! enthusiastically takes on the artwork of the American craft beer can, showcasing 600 different cans from 40 states. It’s a beautifully designed and smartly laid out coffee table book that approaches the imaging of the modern beer can as both art and as a vehicle for commerce. Canned! features more than 200 pages of well-positioned visuals punctuated by “just enough” information about the breweries, the beers, and the artists responsible for giving each beer its vibe – and it’s one of the best “craft beer as art” books of 2014.
For those interested in the history of American craft beer and how it became what it is today, track down…
The Craft Beer Revolution: How a Band of Microbrewers Is Transforming the World’s Favorite Drinkby Steve Hindy
The Craft Beer Revolution is an insider’s look at forty years of craft beer history and tells the scrappy stories of the individuals who started it all. And unlike so many books on craft beer that have come our way, this book doesn’t read like an oral history that was dictated to a ghost writer – and there’s a reason for that. The founder of Brooklyn Brewery, Steve Hindy, was also a journalist in a previous life and it shows. His writing is crisp; his stories are colorful, well ordered, and perceptive; and it doesn’t hurt that he was actually at many of the events that proved so important to today’s craft beer movement.
If you care about craft beer and how the craft beer movement came about, then Steve Hindy’s The Craft Beer Revolution is essential reading.
