North Carolina Craft Beer and Breweries

By Erik Lars Myers

Boasting more craft breweries than any other state in the American South, North Carolina is the state of Southern beer. In North Carolina Craft Beer & Breweries, Erik Lars Myers profiles over 50 brewpubs and breweries statewide, providing useful details like location and contact information, tour times and hours of operation, and the breweries? regular lineups of beers and seasonal releases. Myers relates each brewery?s history and the vision of its founders. Most importantly, he shares its story, showing how it offers something different or unique. Sidebars about festivals, bottle shops, and other beer-related features?like hop farms, cideries, and meaderies?show how craft beer is a growing and thriving industry in North Carolina. North Carolina Craft Beer & Breweries is an ideal introduction for people who are just learning about craft beer and a great resource for beer enthusiasts who want to get the most out of their local beer experience. The book contains bonuses like a glossary of beer-related terms, a beer-styles quick reference guide, and an introduction to craft beer and how it is made. A history and time line of beer and brewing in North Carolina from colonial days (when beer was not widely made, due to the warm climate) through Prohibition to the present day take North Carolina Beer & Breweries beyond what readers expect from a local guidebook, proving that ?beer is not just a drink?it?s a destination? (CNN.com). Erik Lars Myers has pretty much run the gamut of right- and left-brained career choices. With a degree in theater and performance and a long work background in programming, he somehow ended up right in the middle with a beer in hand. Myers has worked with the North Carolina Brewers Guild. He was the executive editor for the Know Your Brewer website and founded the blog Top Fermented, where he comments regularly about beer, brewing, and the craft beer industry. He has published over 90 columns and is currently a staff writer at Intrepid Media. He recently opened Mystery Brewing Company in Durham, North Carolina, a city that is home to one of the country?s most outstanding emerging beer cultures.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0895875713
• ISBN13: 9780895875716
• Release Date: February 2012
• Publisher: John F. Blair, Publisher
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.5"