Tom Acitelli > Quotes

“There are those who think that a beer should be relatively high in alcohol. This is not reasonable, after all, why do you drink beer? If all you want is inebriation, drink hard liquor. Beer is a convivial beverage between friends, to be drunk for its own sake, as a friendly thing, not a drunking thing. Five to six percent is plenty of alcohol, your friends won’t laugh if your beer clobbers them.”
― Tom Acitelli, The Audacity of Hops: The History of America's Craft Beer Revolution

“Two things were inarguable. There was too much beer, a lot of it of dubious quality, and too many breweries, brewpubs and contract brewers, the latter dominated by entities that might not have been in the movement for craftsmanship.”
― Tom Acitelli, The Audacity of Hops: The History of America's Craft Beer Revolution

“Liberty Ale would become quite possibly the most important beer of the late twentieth century”
― Tom Acitelli, The Audacity of Hops: The History of America's Craft Beer Revolution