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The Audacity Of Hops In California

May 10, 2013 By Jay Brooks

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This week was a fun one, in part because Tom Acitelli was in town on his book tour, promoting his new paperback The Audacity of Hops: The History of America’s Craft Beer Revolution. He started Tuesday evening at the Anchor Brewery, where he spoke briefly, signed some books and all of us enjoyed a few beers.

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Tom Acitelli reading from the “Audacity of Hops” at Anchor Brewing.

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Dave Suurballe, Judy Ashworth, Julie Nickels and Bruce Paton at Tom’s book event.

The next day, Tom drove up to my house, and from there we had lunch at Russian River, and then we whisked over to the production brewery for a quick tour before doing a Bottom of the Bottle podcast at Beercraft in Rohnert Park. Then that evening Tom did an event at Lagunitas hosted by my local book store chain, Copperfield’s Books, before heading back home to Boston the following morning.

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Tom with Vinnie Cilurzo at Russian River’s production brewery.

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On the Bottom of the Bottle podcast (photo by Greg Coll).

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Joe Tucker, stealing a drink, Jeremy Marshall, me Tom and Ken Weaver at Lagunitas.

It was great fun hanging out for a longer period of time with Tom, as we’d only met briefly a couple of times before. His new book, The Audacity of Hops: The History of America’s Craft Beer Revolution, seems very, very good. I’ve thoroughly enjoyed all of the parts I’ve managed to find the time to read so far, and many people whose opinions I respect are all saying the same thing: that Tom has managed to write a comprehensive, thorough and enjoyable history of the craft beer since 1965. I heartily recommend his book to anyone new to the beer world, or anyone who wants to get some context to how we got to where we are today. It’s been a great journey.

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Filed Under: Beers, Breweries, Just For Fun, Related Pleasures Tagged With: Beer Books, California



Comments

  1. Maureen Ogle says

    May 11, 2013 at 7:35 am

    Wish. I’d. Been. There. I think the book is terrific (see my review in AAB). Glad he’s rockin’ the CA beer book tour. Enjoy!

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