Fine wine has always had its expert guides to taste and terroir. Why not beer? Funky, young, and smart, this is the ultimate beer geeks companion, covering everything from the homebrew renaissance to nanobreweries to many of Americas preeminent beer events and festivals. Theres a revolution brewing among craft beer makers: Theyre reviving long-forgotten recipes, dosing brews with wild yeasts to create new flavors, and using organic grains and hops to forge a delicious new frontier of beer. And no ones better equipped to tell us whats happening than Joshua M. Bernstein, former Gourmet.com writer and one of the worlds foremost beer experts. He covers all of todays top trends, including high-alcohol, bourbon barrel-aged, cask-conditioned, and even gluten-free beers. Designed to look just like Joshuas notebook and featuring labels and photos, this extreme guide is a one-stop shop for cutting-edge beer technology, taste, and information. Joshua M. Bernstein has written for dozens of magazines, newspapers, and websites, including the New York Times, the New York Daily News, Travel+Leisure.com, Forbes Traveler, New York magazine, and Time Out New York. He has written a column for the New York Press for seven years and is a beer features writer for Imbibe. He is currently the beer columnist for AOLs "Slashfood." Brewed Awakening is his first book. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
