The Golden Age of Beer - A Year of Styles, Stories, and Trivia

A stunning beer lover's companion from one of today's leading beer experts distills what you need to know to select the ideal beer for every week of the year and enjoy like a pro. All hail the golden age of beer! Today there are nearly nine thousand breweries in the US alone, brewing an enormous range of styles from imperial stouts to double India pale ales, golden pilsners, briny melon goses, and much more. But while this breadth can delight the taste buds all year, how does one choose what to drink without feeling overwhelmed or defaulting to the same brews again and again?In this unique volume, acclaimed beer expert Tom Acitelli presents a fifty-two week guide to choosing the perfect beer to complement every week of the year. With tasting notes, brand recommendations, a guide to how to best serve, sip, and savor, plus fascinating backstories and trivia, Acitelli unearths what beer lovers actually care about and reveals how to appreciate the best that the golden age of beer has to offer. The Golden Age of Beer embraces Acitelli's inviting, accessible voice and dives into homebrewing, beer icons, today's industry game-changers, and more. It cuts through the noise and the hype to leave you with a lush, inspiring, and reliable guide for sampling and entertaining all year long.

List of contents

Introduction
Brewing, Beer Lingo, and Glasses
Beer in Winter
Beer in Spring
Beer in Summer
Beer in Fall

About the author

Tom Acitelli is widely regarded as an expert on beer and the beer industry and has written extensively about both for outlets including the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, and Eater. Tom was the long-time history columnist for All About Beer magazine and has been a guest speaker or moderator at several brewery events and festivals, including the Great American Beer Festival. Tom’s prior beer books include The Audacity of Hops: The History of America’s Craft Beer Revolution and Pilsner: How the Beer of Kings Changed the World, which the North American Guild of Beer Writers voted the best book of 2020. He lives in the Boston area.

Summary

A stunning beer lover’s companion from today’s leading beer expert, Tom Acitelli, distills what you need to know to select the ideal beer for every week of the year, and reveals how to drink, entertain, and enjoy like a pro.

​All hail the golden age of beer! Today there are nearly nine thousand breweries in the US alone, brewing an enormous range of styles from Russian imperial stouts to triple India pale ales, golden pilsners, briny melon goses, and much more. But while this breadth can delight the tastebuds all year, how does one best choose what to drink without feeling overwhelmed or going for the same default brews again and again?

In this uniquely timely and high-end volume, acclaimed beer expert Tom Acitelli presents a fifty-two week guide to choosing the perfect beer to complement every week of the year. With tasting notes, specific brew recommendations, a guide to how to best serve, sip, and savor (naming glassware, temperatures, and pairings), plus fascinating backstories and trivia, Tom distills what beer lovers actually care about and reveals how to appreciate the best that the golden age of beer has to offer.

The Golden Age of Beer embraces Tom’s inviting, accessible voice and is complemented by photographs throughout of beers, breweries, brewers, and more. Additional insider info dives into home brewing, beer icons, today’s industry game-changers, and more. So go ahead and ditch that old, out-of-date beer textbook; instead add class to your beer game by drinking and entertaining all year long with this lush, inspiring, and reliable guide that focuses on your enjoyment and what you actually care about.

Foreword

Mainstream media targets will embrace author’s connections as a journalist, outlets he has written for or been interviewed by, and outlets that have reviewed his prior books or otherwise featured his work, including the New York Times, Washington Post, Denver Post, Eater, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, NPR, All About Beer, Men’s Journal, New York Observer, Town & Country, and Redbook.

Media categories to include general interest, food and beverage/endemic media, travel, and local media, with excerpt opportunities and interviews offered for TV, print, digital, podcast, and radio. Targets to include Food & Wine, Saveur, Vice Munchies, Bon Appetit, Draft, Conde Nast Traveler, BeerAdvocate, Craft Beer & Brewing, Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Boston Metro, Boston morning news shows and radio programs, and more.

Trade media outreach will target reviews in Publishers Weekly, Kirkus, Library Journal, ALA Booklist, and Shelf Awareness, and a book trailer will be submitted as well as ads.

Influencer, BookTok, and other social media campaigns will reach popular beer enthusiasts and book reviewers with large followings.

In-person events at bookstores throughout the author’s Boston hometown, as well as beer festivals including the Great American Beer Festival, and the wealth of others around the US and Canada.

Print and digital ARCs will be available for sales, marketing, publicity, and endorsement solicitations.

Promotion on pub and tied to Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, July 4, Christmas, Hanukkah, New Years, and International Beer Day.

Product details

• Authors: Tom Acitelli
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 14.11.2023, delayed
• EAN: 9781954641266
• ISBN: 978-1-954641-26-6
• No. of pages: 256
• Illustrations: 70 photographs
• Subjects: Guides > Food & drink > Drinks; COOKING / Entertaining, Parties, etiquette & entertaining, COOKING / Beverages / Alcoholic / Bartending & Cocktails, Food & beverage technology, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Food Science / General, PHOTOGRAPHY / Subjects & Themes / Food, Cooking for parties & special occasions, Cookery / food and drink / food writing