For the first time in print, Evan Rail's bestselling essay "Why Beer Matters" has been updated and expanded to include its follow-up, "The Meanings of Craft Beer," as well as selected articles and essays from Rail's career covering the global beer scene over the last two decades. If you're looking for insight into what we drink and why we love drinking it, this is your guide.
Bronze Medal Winner, Best Book, North American Guild of Beer WritersWhen the ancient brewery in the Czech forest town of Kout na Sumavě reopens after a 40-year closure, rumors start to circulate about a mysterious brewing book found hidden in the crumbling brewhouse walls. The beer from Kout is so strangely delicious that many who taste it think that it has to be made using secrets - or even magic - from the old brewing log. Enchanted by the taste of Kout lager, Evan Rail makes several journeys out to the brewery, even bringing Anthony Bourdain to film a segment on Kout for the TV show "No Reservations." But the world of Czech beer is full of secrets... and some secrets do not want to be revealed.
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