Thursday, Sept 3th at 7:00 pm ET (4:00 pm PT)

Tom Acitelli will share the foundations and the myths of pilsner, the world's most popular beer style; and will tell how its rise out of the 19th century spawned the craft beer movement in the late 20th.

Commercial Calibration:Pilsner Urquell
Budweiser
Miller Lite
Yuengling Pilsner


PILSNER: Past, present, and futureThe foundations of Pilsner
The myths surrounding Pilsner
How Pilsner spawned the modern craft beer movement
Contextualize this style


Question and Answer: Tom will answer your questions in the second half of the live stream.


Tom Acitelli is the author of PILSNER, The Audacity of Hops, Whiskey Business, and American Wine. The last title was a finalist for the James Beard Award for best book of 2015 and one of five wine books The New York Times singled out for review that year. Tom has written about alcohol for the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, and Eater, among many others, and was the history columnist for several years for All About Beer magazine. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Tom Acitelli - Pilsner: How the Beer of Kings Changed the World