Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-264) and index
Contents:
Part One: Is, Was and Ever Shall Beer Chapter 1: In the Beginning, There Was Beer The birth of beer and everything else Chapter 2: Beer Is Divine The sacred origins of beer Chapter 3: The Beer Pantheon Charting the sbeeritual universe Chapter 4: Everything You Wanted to Know About Beer But Were Afraid to Ask How yeast gets it on with sugar and has a beer Part Two: The Death of Beer (and Everything Else) Chapter 5: The Great Beer Gender Bender How greedy men stole beer from women Chapter 6: The Revolutionary Beer Party Hanging on to handmade beer and pioneering the industrial brew in the New World Chapter 7: Fermenting the Industrial Revolution Beer: as with many good things, technology hastened its demise Chapter 8: Globeerization Rise of the global corporate beeristocracy and the birth of beeroregionalism Chapter 9: Dark Storm Brewin' What's wrong with the world Part Three: The Second Fermentation Chapter 10: Beeroregionalism Think Globally, Drink Locally The ecology of beer Chapter 11: Putting Beer In Its Place Beer crafts community and helps us all get along Chapter 12: Make Mine Organic Toxic stews and organic brews Chapter 13: Slow Beer Drink beer and digress Chapter 14: The All-Around Wellness Elixir What they're not telling you about beer and well-being Chapter 15: Brewing Big Solutions Corporate pig-dogs are saving the world too Chapter 16: Putting the Ale Back in Female Women of the world: Take Back the Pint! Chapter 17: How to Drink Beer and Save the World Here's the plan: first, we get some beer Chapter 18: Beer Activist Guide Radical new beers for a radically new world Vocabrewary Bibbrewography