WORD Presents Tom Acitelli

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.

Tom Acitelli is a journalist and author widely regarded as an expert on beer and the beer industry. He has written extensively about beer for outlets including the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, and Eater, and been interviewed on the subject by NPR, BBC Radio 4, and Fox News. For five years, Tom was the history columnist for the trade magazine All About Beer, and he has also been a guest speaker or moderator at several brewery events and festivals, including the Great American Beer Festival, the world’s largest beer tasting, and consulted on the permanent brewing exhibit at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. Tom’s prior books include The Audacity of Hops, American Wine, which was a finalist for the James Beard Award for best food and drink book of the year, Whiskey Business, and Pilsner, which the North American Guild of Beer Writers voted the best book of 2020. He lives in Watertown, MA.

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