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Tom Acitelli

www.tomacitelli.com
Tom Acitelli is an author and journalist. He is also a writer and former senior editor at the New York Observer. His work has appeared in the New York Post, the New York Times, Redbook and Town & Country. He is a regular contributor to All About Beer, the brewing industry's leading trade magazine.

Tom Acitelli's last book, American Wine: A Coming-of-Age Story, was a finalist for the James Beard Award for best beverage book of 2015. He is also the author of the highly praised The Audacity of Hops: The History of America's Craft Beer Revolution, now in its second edition. His latest book is Whiskey Business: How Small-Batch Distillers Are Transforming American Spirits.
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American Wine
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By Tom Acitelli
Cloth Price 29.95

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Published Sep 2015

The story of how the United States came to dominate fine wine
 
In 1976, the bicentennial year of American Independence, the nation’s wine was an international afterthought—stylistically and commercially. Within a generation, however, the United States would stand unquestionably at the world vanguard of wine, reversing centuries of Euro-centrism and dominating the fruit of the vine so thoroughly that Europeans were forced to adopt American words to describe their own creations. In the process, it spawned a wine culture and became intertwined with a kind of aspirational living: American fine wine became a foundational element of gourmet food, reality TV, a myriad of print publications and blogs, expensive vacation packages, gift catalogues, and even the plot of an Oscar-winning movie. Using primary sources, including interviews with the major figures in the rise of American fine wine, the book traces the controversial personalities and seismic events that led to American commercial and stylistic dominance of the world’s most celebrated alcoholic beverage—a dominance that shows no signs of waning.
Pilsner
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By Tom Acitelli
Trade Paper Price 19.99

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Published Aug 2020

Best Book at the North American Guild Beers Writers

"Effervescent and informative . . . This chronicle will intoxicate both beer nerds and history buffs." —Publishers Weekly 

A book for both the beer geek and the foodie seeking a better understanding of modern food and drink 

On the night of April 17, 1945, Allied planes dropped more than a hundred bombs on the Burghers' Brewery in Pilsen, Czechoslovakia, destroying much of the birthplace of pilsner, the world's most popular beer style and the bestselling alcoholic beverage of all time.  

Still, workers at the brewery would rally so they could have beer to toast their American, Canadian, and British liberators the following month. It was another twist in pilsner's remarkable story, one that started in a supernova of technological, political, and demographic shifts in the mid-1800s and that continues to unfold today anywhere alcohol is sold.  

Tom Acitelli's Pilsner: How the Beer of Kings Changed the World tells that story, shattering myths about pilsner's very birth and about its immediate parentage.  

A character-driven narrative that shows how pilsner influenced everything from modern-day advertising and marketing to immigration to today's craft beer movement. 

The Audacity of Hops
The Audacity of Hops (4 Formats) ›
By Tom Acitelli, Foreword by Tony Magee
Trade Paper Price 19.99

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Published Jun 2017

Discover the underdog story of how America came to dominate beer stylistically in The Audacity of Hops, the first book on American craft beer’s history. First published in May 2013, this updated, fully revised edition offers the most thorough picture yet of one of the most interesting and lucrative culinary trends in the US since World War II. This portrait includes the titanic mergers and acquisitions, as well as major milestones and technological advances, that have swept craft beer in just the past few years.
 Acitelli weaves the story of American craft beer into the tales of trends such as slow food, the rise of the Internet, and the rebirth of America's urban areas. The backgrounds of America’s favorite craft brewers, big and small, are here, including often-forgotten heroes from the movement's earliest days, as well as the history of homebrewing since Prohibition. Through it all, he paints an unforgettable portrait of plucky entrepreneurial triumph.
 This is the "book for the craft beer nerd who thinks he or she already knows the story" (Los Angeles Times), an “excellent history” (Slate) “lovingly told” (Wall Street Journal) for fans of good food and drink in general.
Whiskey Business
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By Tom Acitelli
Trade Paper Price 19.99

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Published Jun 2017

Discover the underdog story of the improbable rise of small-batch distilling in America. This bracingly written, fast-paced work traces the relationship of Americans to spirits such as bourbon, scotch, vodka, gin, and rum. And it presents the full story of a plucky band of entrepreneurs who disrupted the nation’s conception of how those libations could appear and taste—and how much they could cost. Acitelli weaves the unlikely triumph of the small-batch distilling movement into other major trends, including a neo-Prohibitionism that nearly croaked the entire thing, America’s re-embrace of cocktails, and the twin rises of craft beer and fine wine. He also expertly delves into the controversies currently wracking American spirits, ones that threaten to tank the movement at the moment of what should be its greatest triumph.