Fermenting Revolution: How to Drink Beer and Save the World by Christopher Mark O’Brien; Unabridged MP3 Audio Book; Narrator Daniel Maté

Gold IPPY Award Winner for “Outstanding Book of the Year” 2007

Fermenting Revolution delivers an empowering message about how individuals can change the world through the simple act of having a beer. It is also the first book to view all of the important trends in human history as fundamentally revolving around beer.

Globalization pitches the corporate worldview that is essentially selfish, rewarding the few while demeaning the many and devastating nature, against the sustainability movement that calls for cooperation, the protection and celebration of nature and the nurturing of equitable communities. Beer exemplifies the struggle.

This book:

• Traces the path of brewing from a women-led, home-based craft to corporate industry;
• Describes how craft breweries and home-brewing are forging stronger communities;
• Explains how corporate mega-breweries are saving the world by pioneering industrial ecology;
• Profiles the most inspiring and radical breweries, brewers and beer drinkers that are making the world a better place to live.

The return to beer as a way of life is communal, convivial, democratic, healthful, and natural. The American beer renaissance champions ecologically sustainable production, and is helping to create thriving community places. After reading Fermenting Revolution, mere beer drinkers will become "beer activists," ready to fight corporate-rule by simply meeting their neighbors for a pint at the local brewpub -- saving the world one beer at a time.

"With equal pulls of humor and history, O’Brien toasts America’s dedicated good-beer activists who’ve battled the homogenized evil of ‘globeerization’ and brought ‘beerodiversity’ back to communities across our land. Pop a cool one, and enjoy this empowering and enlightening book."–Jim Hightower, author of Thieves in High Places

"Fermenting Revolution is a lively, sometimes humorous, sometimes horrifying, and always illuminating tale. It’s a tale that needed to be told. As Chris says, “More so than ever before, the world today needs beer.” I’ll drink to that!"–Sam Calagione, Owner, Dogfish Head craft Brewery

"Drinking beer may strike you as an odd way to save the world, but Chris O’Brien tells you how to do it with intelligence, humor, and style. Along the way, you’ll learn about 10,000 years of beer history as well as brewing and drinking lore from literally around the world. It’s a fresh look at man’s oldest beverage that will help you quench your thirst for social justice."–Steven Raichlen, author of The Barbecue Bible and How to Grill, and host of BBQ University on PBS

"The reaction against the corporate homogenization of the entire globe began, believe it or not, with beer. One of the few environmental and social indicators pointing in the right way is that the number of small breweries has exploded in the last couple of decades. Chris O’Brien tells this and many other stories in mellow and charming fashion; read it with a pint of something local in hand."&ndsah;Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature