The Beer Story Project chronicles history through the people who lived it

Eight months in the making, The Beer Story Project is a compilation of beery stories submitted by over 100 people from across the spectrum of the American craft beer industry, that help tell the history of the industry. Much more than a dusty historical yarn, the book’s chapters are broke down into some of the lesser known or forgotten exploits of craft beer from short-lived TV shows to beer-themed movies, the best and worst cease-and-desist letters, label and marketing failures, and some of the worst crash and burn stories.

Some Beer Story contributors include Sam Calagione, Pete Slosberg, Mitch Steele, Teri Fahrendorf, Lew Bryson, Jay Brooks, Tom Dalldorf, and David Logsdon, among many others. Additional chapters include stories on how beers got their name, beer bands inside the industry, past lives of craft beer luminaries before getting into the industry, weird beers, stolen goods, beer fests, weird beers, and brewery origin stories to name a few.

The Beer Story is by author Marty Nachel, a long-time freelance beer writer and book author, with “Beer Across America,” “Beer for Dummies” (Vol. I, II, III), and “Homebrewing for Dummies” (Vol. I, II, III) in his catalogue. 

Most recently, Nachel founded the American Craft Beer Hall of Fame, with the intent of recognizing and honoring the people who created and sustained the American craft brewing industry for the past fifty years.  It is also his objective to preserve the history of American craft beer, which is his inspiration and motivation for this book.

The Beer Story Project by the numbers:

* 7” x 10” format

* 270 pages

* 20 topic sections (plus a contributors' appendix)

* 150+ stories

* 104 contributors