Bottoms Up: A People's Guide to Beer by Benjamin Dangl

An entertaining and informative look into the millions of beer activists fighting corporate power and environmental destruction, this field guide details how to create solutions as delicious and successful as they are radical and unexpected. Tracing the path of how beer activists have become a powerful force in shaping beer-drinking culture and the cotemporary beer industry, this book chronicles the history of workers in the beer industry, explores how homebrewers and microbrewers are building community and preventing climate change, and explains how “farmer brewers” are modeling sustainable agriculture. In an era when a handful of top-down global corporations sell most of the world’s beer, this resource provides information on the homebrewing process, forming homebrewing clubs, and opening small-scale breweries and neighborhood brewpubs, as well as finding the best local, sustainable, worker-friendly beers.