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?