Beer and Society: How We Make Beer and Beer Makes Us

This book examines how beer reflects the structure of society’s collective values, economic structures, and structural inequity. The authors explore the organization of our social world through looking at beer as a marker of identity, an object of connoisseurship, and a livelihood for those who produce and distribute it.

Eli Revelle Yano Wilson is assistant professor of sociology at the University of New Mexico. He is also a Certified Cicerone(R) who formerly worked in the beer industry in Los Angeles. Asa B. Stone is affiliate assistant professor of geography and environmental studies at the University of New Mexico and an Advanced Cicerone(R) who leads educational workshops on beer and social justice around the world.