The Beer Lover's Guide to Cider: American Ciders for Craft Beer Fans to Explore

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Indulge 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! 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.

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When I began brewing at Goose Island in 1988, I read Michael Jacksons World Guide to Beer cover to cover, again and again, inspiring me to explore beer. Beths 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 Olivers Cider & Perry

[Beth Demmons] knowledge and enthusiasm for craft beer and cider ennobles both beverages. The Beer Lovers Guide to Cider takes beer lovers on a wonderful journey through the cider landscape and teaches us to appreciate cider with a brewers palate.
Jim Koch, brewer and founder of The Boston Beer Company

The Beer Lovers 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 Worlds Ultimate Artisanal Spirit

Demmons 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 Lovers Guide to Cider is a book that very well mayto use Demmons own wordentice 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 theyre 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 theyll want to try. Toward the back of the book, she lists an additional 68 cideries and their locations that dont have specific ciders mentioned in the chapters, helping to guide readers to quality cideries near them.
Cidercraft Magazine

Demmons first book, A Beer Lovers Guide to Cider, explores cidera 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

Author Bio

Beth Demmon is an award-winning, San Diego-based freelance writer whose work has appeared in publications like Civil Eats, Saveur Magazine, PUNCH, SevenFifty Daily, VICE, Playboy, VinePair, and many more. She is currently the beer columnist at San Diego Magazine and regular podcast host for Good Beer Hunting. Her Substack newsletter Prohibitchin aims to amplify the voices of people working in and around craft beer, spirits, wine, and other beverage alcohol segments who may not get the recognition they deserve. Beth is also a Certified beer judge through BJCP, Certified Cider Professional through the American Cider Association, and member of the North American Guild of Beer Writers. The Beer Lovers Guide To Cider is her first book. Beth currently resides in San Diego, California. Learn more at bethdemmon.com.