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Book SynopsisIndulge your Love of Craft Beer with Hard Cider!“A wonderful journey through the cider landscape”—Jim Koch, brewer and founder of The Boston Beer Company
#1 New Release in Beer
In this delicious book about hard apple cider, award-winning beverage journalist Beth Demmon invites lovers of beer to connect familiar flavors with the fastest growing and best gluten free beer alternative on earth: cider.
Beer fans: Want to try something new? Get into cider—you might be surprised! With simple guidance and easy-to-understand comparisons to beer, you don't need to be an expert to learn to love cider. Beth uses her beer knowledge to break down why certain tastes appeal, how categories overlap, and why you might just gravitate to distinct styles, regions, and approaches to cider making.
Become a connoisseur of hard cider! Learn how to see, smell, taste, and otherwise appreciate the craft of beer and cider. Award-winning beverage journalist Beth Demmon takes us on a journey to the future of the best craft ciders. The Beer Lover’s Guide to Cider is the starting point for lay people and beer connoisseurs alike.
In The Beer Lover’s Guide to Cider, you’ll find:
- A guide for gluten-free beer lovers to find the best craft ciders for your palate
- A craft beer gift for any lover of beer looking to try a new drink with familiar flavors
- Beautiful illustrations of delicious drinks, with easy-to-understand and sensory-based explanations—all written by an expert
- Foreword written by award-winning journalist, best selling author, and creator of Beervana, Jeff Alworth
If you liked Fire Cider!; Cider Planet; or Cocktails, Mocktails, and Garnishes from the Garden, you’ll love The Beer Lover’s Guide to Cider.
Trade Review“When I began brewing at Goose Island in 1988, I read Michael Jackson’s World Guide to Beer cover to cover, again and again, inspiring me to explore beer. Beth’s well-researched book will inspire a new generation of cider drinkers to explore the magical world of apples.”
—Greg Hall, founder of Virtue Cider and former brewmaster at Goose Island Beer Company
“Really, this is not just for beer lovers, but for everyone who wants a whole new world of drinks opened up before their eyes.”
—Tom Oliver, cider maker at Oliver’s Cider & Perry
“[Beth Demmon’s] knowledge and enthusiasm for craft beer and cider ennobles both beverages. The Beer Lover’s Guide to Cider takes beer lovers on a wonderful journey through the cider landscape and teaches us to appreciate cider with a brewer’s palate.”
—Jim Koch, brewer and founder of The Boston Beer Company
“The Beer Lover’s Guide to Cider is an exciting foray into the beauty and diversity that the cider category has to offer, and must-have for beer drinkers who know what they like, but seek to discover new liquid horizons.”
—Emma Janzen, author of Mezcal: The History, Craft & Cocktails of the World’s Ultimate Artisanal Spirit
“Demmon’s first book is a worthwhile resource for anyone interested in expanding their tastes or learning more about the cider industry.”
—Sarah Filiberto, Library Journal
“The Beer Lover’s Guide to Cider is a book that very well may—to use Demmon’s own word—‘entice’ beer drinkers to dip their toes into the cider world if they have yet to do so or wade deeper in the apple-y waters if they’re ready to know cider more intimately. But the book is not just for beer drinkers. It will lead anyone who wants to know about, or know more about, cider to bottles, cans and American craft cideries they’ll want to try. Toward the back of the book, she lists an additional 68 cideries and their locations that don’t have specific ciders mentioned in the chapters, helping to guide readers to quality cideries near them.”
—Cidercraft Magazine
“Demmon’s first book, A Beer Lover’s Guide to Cider, explores cider—a beverage often overshadowed by the reigning beer and wine giants of the craft alcohol world. Whether you're already on the cider train or just hopping on, Demmon is the perfect conductor on your journey through the dozens of diverse ciders she highlights from coast to coast.”
—San Diego Magazine
