Beer and Society: How We Make Beer and Beer Makes Us - Hardcover

by Eli Revelle Yano Wilson (Author), Asa B. Stone (Author)

Beer and Society: How We Make Beer and Beer Makes Us takes readers on a lively journey through the social, cultural, and economic dimensions of the modern beer world. This book illustrates that beer is far more than a beverage. As a finely-crafted cultural product, beer can be a part of our identity, a source of pleasure and camaraderie, an object of connoisseurship, and a livelihood for those who are behind the beer itself. Drawing on leading sociological and psychological perspectives, the authors argue that our enduring relationship with beer reflects the very roots of our society, including its collective values and norms, power structures, and persistent inequities based on race, gender, sexuality, and social class. Beer and Society explores beer as an embodiment of who we are and a force to energize social change.

Author Biography

Eli Revelle Yano Wilson is assistant professor of sociology at the University of New Mexico. He is also a Certified Cicerone(R) who formerly worked in the beer industry in Los Angeles. Asa B. Stone is affiliate assistant professor of geography and environmental studies at the University of New Mexico and an Advanced Cicerone(R) who leads educational workshops on beer and social justice around the world.