Hindy - The craft beer revolution : how a band of microbrewers is transforming the worlds favorite drink

Additional praise for The Craft Beer Revolution

A lively, entertaining history by an insider. Steve Hindy portrays colorfully and knowledgeably the people who created the new breweries and the new beers. Its a compelling story of the craft beer revolution, a phenomenal flowering of American entrepreneurship.

Jerry Steinman, Founder, Beer Marketers Insights

Steves position in the craft industry puts him in a unique positionhe both grew alongside it as an owner of Brooklyn Brewery and helped steer its course as an active Brewers Association member. He very accurately depicts the craft revolutions highs and lows and the camaraderie, challenging to maintain at times, that underlies it all.

Ken Grossman, Cofounder and CEO, Sierra Nevada

Balance. Its a desired trait in the brewing world. That perfectly comforting zone created through the interplay of hops and barley. Steve Hindy has found the equivalent space as a beer-journalist-slash-brewing-pioneer in his book The Craft Beer Revolution. Combining entertaining doses of craft brewing history with approachable descriptions of the brewers art and fearless exploration of these entrepreneurs who changed the face of American brewing. A delicious and session-able read.

Sam Calagione, Founder and President, Dogfish Head

Steve Hindy weaves a vivid mix of passionate advocacy and cold hard journalism to describe the disruption which occurred first to large brewers, and now to small brewers grown big. The Craft Beer Revolution is a fascinating and entertaining read, revealing the idiosyncrasies and passion of the players who built the movement. If you love beer, you have to read it!

Tom Long, CEO, MillerCoors

The rise of the American craft beer movement is one of the greatest business stories of all time. As a founding father and one hell of a writer, Steve weaves an amazing story of innovation and imagination that is truly unique to the world.

Dolf Vandenbrink, CEO, Heineken USA

With great passion and creativity, a generation of new American brewers is elevating the status of beer in the culinary world. The Craft Beer Revolution is the compelling inside story of their rise.

Dr. Tim Ryan, CEO, The Culinary Institute of America

The Craft Beer Revolution has captivated the imagination of the media, Wall Street, and Big Beer, as well as the attention, minds, and hearts of the consumer. Hindys history, research, real-life experience, and story-telling ability paint an accurate picture of how this movement got started and what propelled it to its current heights. Its been a great ride for craft brewers, and this is a great read!

Gary Fish, Founder and CEO, Deschutes Brewery,
and Chairman, Brewers Association

The craft beer revolution, the most exciting development in the beer industry since the birth of lager beer in the nineteenth century, now has its chronicler. Steve Hindy tells the story as only a skilled journalist and an important player in the revolution could tell it. For decades going forward, this will be an important book for those who want to understand this transformative business story.

Daniel Bradford, Publisher, All About Beer Magazine

Steve Hindy brings a war-tested reporters journalistic skill and a veteran insiders perspective to the good beer story, making his new book, The Craft Beer Revolution, compelling. This book is an essential resource and a great read, not only for those of us who participated in the craft beer renaissance, but also for a new generation of brewers and beer enthusiasts thirsting for the real story.

Tom Dalldorf, Publisher, Celebrator Beer News

The Craft Beer Revolution is a great American success story, told from the front row seat of Brooklyn Brewery cofounder Steve Hindy. The book shows an industry of brewers and distributors that is great because of the goodness of its people. Hindy entertains the reader with wonderful portraits of the people involved. The book is part high school yearbook and part Tom Wolfes The Right Stuff. It shows us an industry that is being transformed and still works well for all involved, most importantly the consumer.

Craig Purser, President and CEO,
National Beer Wholesalers Association

Steve Hindy is a pioneer, visionary, and tireless advocate for the craft beer industry. His extensive background as a journalist coupled with his experience and passion for the craft beer industry result in a fascinating and most interesting perspective of the last six decades of a dynamic and colorful industry. Steve captures both the makings of the craft beer revolution and more recent evolution of the industry as a whole. I applaud Steve for this great work, his tireless commitment to this wonderful industry, and congratulate all those that make this such a great and unique business.

Bill Hackett, President, Crown Imports LLC

This book serves as a great history lesson about how craft brewing has changed the beer industry and captivated consumers. Through innovation and meeting customers demands, craft brewers have grown far beyond their niche and now own a sizeable piece of the beer market once controlled by a select group of larger breweries. As this trend has grown, its consumers that have been the real winners as unique craft beers are now an important part of any culinary experience. Steve has written a book drawing from his incredible expertise as a true trail blazer in the industry, focused on how to not only make great beer, but how to gain respect and notoriety when brewing.

Scott Crawford, Executive Coordinator of Purchasing, Whole Foods Market Northeast Region

The Craft Beer Revolution

How a Band of Microbrewers Is Transforming the Worlds Favorite Drink

Steve Hindy

Foreword by John Hickenlooper

THE CRAFT BEER REVOLUTION

Copyright Steve Hindy, 2014

All rights reserved.

First published in 2014 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN in the U.S.a division of St. Martins Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010.

Where this book is distributed in the UK, Europe and the rest of the world, this is by Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS.

Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world.

Palgrave and Macmillan are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries.

ISBN: 978-1-137-27876-0

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Hindy, Steve, 1949

The craft beer revolution : how a band of microbrewers is transforming the worlds favorite drink / Steve Hindy.

pages cm

ISBN 978-1-137-27876-0 (alk. paper)

1. Brewing industryUnited StatesHistory. 2. Beer industryUnited StatesHistory. 3. MicrobreweriesUnited StatesHistory. I. Title.

HD9397.U52H56 2014

338.47663420973dc23

2013036500

A catalogue record of the book is available from the British Library.

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