Beer Infinity Beer, Brewing & Beyond
| The Craft Beer Revolution Steve Hindy Palgrave Macmillan, 250 pages $25 Steve Hindy’s new book is a serious and important work. It contains some incredibly revealing details about the long history of brewing–particularly the history from 1988 onward, after Hindy co-founded Brooklyn Brewery and entered the history books. It is also a wandering, unfocused narrative that contains two competing threads: early craft-brewing hagiography and an insider’s guide to the unkempt, sweaty inner workings of an industry. One half is disposable; the other half is indispensable. The hagiography occupies the first section of the book, and it reads like many forebears. Hindy clips through the pantheon of greats–Maytag, Grossman, McAuliffe, Papazian, Michael Jackson, and so on. There is little here that’s new, and Hindy treats the founders with a reverence we’ve come to expect in these kinds of books. As he gets further along, to when he enters the picture, things start to pick up speed, though, and we … |
Source: Beervana
Read the full article here.
