How does the growth of craft beer connect to trends like the farm-to-table movement, gentrification, and changing attitudes toward both cities and farms? How do craft beers conjure history, place, and authenticity? How does the rise of craft beer call into being new communities that may challenge or reinscribe hierarchies based on gender, class, and race? Untapped offers answer to these questions.

Collects twelve essays that analyse the rise of craft beer from social and cultural perspectives. These essays tackle such questions as: How does the growth of craft beer connect to trends like the farm-to-table movement, gentrification, the rise of the "creative class", and changing attitudes toward both cities and farms? How do craft beers conjure history, place, and authenticity?

Beer Places is, most essentially, a road map for craft beer, taking readers to various locales to discover the beverage’s deep connections to place. At another level, Beer Places is an academic analysis of these geographical ties. Collected into sections that address authenticity and revitalization, politics and economics, and collectivity and collaboration, this book blends new research with a series of “postcards”: informal conversations and first-person dispatches from the field that transport readers to the spots where pints are shared, networks forged, and spaces defined. With...