{"id":12913,"date":"2016-11-16T09:00:40","date_gmt":"2016-11-16T17:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=12913"},"modified":"2016-11-22T13:19:16","modified_gmt":"2016-11-22T21:19:16","slug":"brewing-revolution-goes-down-easy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2016\/11\/16\/brewing-revolution-goes-down-easy\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>Brewing Revolution<\/em> goes down easy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don\u2019t normally read memoirs or biographies; I find they tend to be insipid and vain. However, when my editor asked me if I like beer\u2014I do\u2014and asked me to review Frank Appleton\u2019s <i>Brewing Revolution<\/i> (Harbour Publishing), I made an exception. I\u2019m glad I did.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-12916\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Craft-Beer-Movement-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"craft-beer-movement\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Craft-Beer-Movement-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Craft-Beer-Movement-300x450.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Craft-Beer-Movement-180x270.jpg 180w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Craft-Beer-Movement.jpg 432w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Starting out as a microbiologist in England, Appleton came to BC in the \u201960s and, thankfully, never left. The book recounts his adventures in brewing, from his beginnings with the big corporate brewers to helping open Canada\u2019s first craft brewery\u2014Horseshoe Bay Brewing\u2014in 1982. Appleton also details the ins and outs of brewing and the history and science behind beer in <i>Brewing Revolution<\/i>, and he knows what he\u2019s talking about; if you\u2019ve ever had one of the craft beers from Spinnakers, Swans, or Hoyne Brewing, then you\u2019ve sampled a little bit of Frank Appleton.<\/p>\n<p>Within the 210 pages of this book, readers will find themselves caught up in Appleton\u2019s easy and experienced prose. At times, you can imagine you\u2019re sharing a pint with the author and he\u2019s telling you his stories in person.<\/p>\n<p>Appleton\u2019s ability to tell a story comes from years spent writing for BC newspapers and magazines while building a home in the Kootenays (one of those articles led to his involvement in the North American craft beer movement).<\/p>\n<p>Readers may find it a bit hard to get past the Latin names of the many yeast and bacteria listed in the book, but that\u2019s about as challenging as it gets here. Even if Appleton\u2019s memoirs of a life in brewing may at first seem to be self-aggrandizement, there\u2019s no disputing the fact that he played a significant role in fermenting the brewing revolution in North America. I highly recommend adding this to your list if you\u2019re interested in brewing or if you want to check out a short read about BC history<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don\u2019t normally read memoirs or biographies; I find they tend to be insipid and vain. However, when my editor asked me if I like beer\u2014I do\u2014and asked me to review Frank Appleton\u2019s Brewing Revolution (Harbour Publishing), I made an exception. I\u2019m glad I did. Starting out as a microbiologist in England, Appleton came to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12916,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,11,175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts","category-issue","category-november-16-2016"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12913"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12921,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12913\/revisions\/12921"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}