Fermenting Revolution

How to Drink Beer and Save the World

Christopher Mark O'Brien

• Publisher: New Society Publishers
• Year: 2006
• ISBN:
  9781550924961
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Sustainability in Business
• Index: Business

Fermenting Revolution delivers an empowering message about how individuals can change the world through the simple act of having a beer. It is also the first book to view all of the important trends in human history as fundamentally revolving around beer.

Globalization pitches the corporate worldview that is essentially selfish, rewarding the few while demeaning the many and devastating nature, against the sustainability movement that calls for cooperation, the protection and celebration of nature and the nurturing of equitable communities. Beer exemplifies the struggle. This book:

• Traces the path of brewing from a women-led, home-based craft to corporate industry;
• Describes how craft breweries and home-brewing are forging stronger communities;
• Explains how corporate mega-breweries are saving the world by pioneering industrial ecology; and
• Profiles the most inspiring and radical breweries, brewers and beer drinkers that are making the world a better place to live.

The return to beer as a way of life is communal, convivial, democratic, healthful, and natural. The American beer renaissance champions ecologically sustainable production, and is helping to create thriving community places. After reading Fermenting Revolution, mere beer drinkers will become "beer activists, " ready to fight corporate-rule by simply meeting their neighbors for a pint at the local brewpub -- saving the world one beer at a time.

Table of contents

• Front Cover
• Advance Praise
• Title Page
• Rights Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Thanks for All the Beer
• Introduction
• Part One: Is, Was, and Ever Shall Beer
• Chapter 1: In the Beginning, There Was Beer
• Chapter 2: Beer Is Divine
• Chapter 3: The Beer Pantheon
• Chapter 4: Everything You Wanted to Know About Beer But Were Afraid to Ask
• Part Two: The Death of Beer (and Everything Else)
• Chapter 5: The Great Beer Gender Bender
• Chapter 6: The Revolutionary Beer Party
• Chapter 7: Fermenting the Industrial Revolution
• Chapter 8: Globeerization
• Chapter 9: Dark Storm Brewin’:The Doom and Gloom Chapter
• Part Three: The Second Fermentation
• Chapter 10: Beeroregionalism: Think Globally, Drink Locally
• Chapter 11: Putting Beer in Its Place
• Chapter 12: Make Mine Organic
• Chapter 13: Slow Beer
• Chapter 14: The All-Around Wellness Elixir
• Chapter 15: Brewing Big Solutions
• Chapter 16: Putting the Ale Back in Female
• Chapter 17: How to Drink Beer and Save the World: A Twenty-Four-Point Action Plan
• Chapter 18: Beer Activist Guide
• Vocabrewary
• Bibrewography
• Index
• About the Author