The Beer Lover’s Guide To Cider: American Ciders For Craft Beer Fans to Explore
published September 2023 by mango publishing
The Beer Lover’s Guide To Cider is Beth Demmon’s first book and explores the similarities (and differences) between two beverage segments: American craft beer and cider. With products ranging from hopped ciders to fruited, imperial, specialty, and beyond, beer lovers and cider lovers alike will be able to taste and appreciate a wide range of ciders from across the United States.
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Reviews + Mentions
Listen: The VinePair Podcast: Creatives in the Beer and Cider Space
Hear about The Beer Lover’s Guide to Cider on the VinePair podcast with Zach Geballe (August 22, 2023). Click to listen.
Read: Q&A with “beer guru” Beth Demmon in San Diego Magazine
Published August 29, 2023. Check out the coverage here!
Read: The Current State of Cider in Full Pour Magazine
“Let’s move beyond the other category comparisons, sub-level add ons and afterthoughts—cider deserves its own space and place.” by Alex Peartree (Fall 2023 issue). Click to read.
Listen: Bean to Barstool Podcast: Beth Demmon on Cider & Beer
Join Beth as she discusses The Beer Lover’s Guide to Cider with host David Nilsen (September 26, 2023). Click to listen.
Read: Book Review & Author Interview on Porch Drinking
“The Beer Lover’s Guide to Cider is an accessible and entertaining introduction to the world of craft cider, making it easy for beer lovers to explore a new beverage on their own terms. Demmon manages to strike the difficult balance of providing knowledgeable, actionable information while maintaining a fun, unintimidating tone that invites curiosity. If you’re a beer lover who’s at all curious about cider, this is the book for you.” Click to read.
Read: "Fall arts preview 2023: Our top book picks for the season” on the San Diego Union-Tribune.
Published September 10, 2023. Read here.
Read: “Beth Demmon Is Getting A Lot of Us Beer Folks Excited About Cider” on Hugging the Bar
An interview with the prolific writer and now author(!) about "A Beer Lover's Guide to Cider"; plus Tarot for following Craig David's advice (hint: "Walking Away"). Read here.
Book Review by Cider Review — Insights On World Cider and Perry
“Beth Demmon’s Beer Lover’s Guide to Cider is a considered and inviting introduction to the huge scope and variety of flavour that cider has to offer beer drinkers. It is also a clever and thoughtful catalogue of food pairings for every style of cider, and a great way to get to know a wide range of American craft ciders and cideries, whether you’re a beer drinker or not. Beth’s emphasis on flavour and its growing importance among ‘ombibulous’ drinkers is timely and accurate, and if you want to get to know contemporary American cider, whomever you are, this is a perfect place to start.”
By Ruvani de Silva, published December 10, 2023. Read here.
Read: From the Beery Bookshelf in the San Diego Union-Tribune
“While researching her new book, San Diego’s Beth Demmon was sometimes admonished to “buzz off and quit contributing to the ‘beerification’ of cider.”
What a sour, short-sighted attitude! Demmon, an accomplished beer writer, also proves an insightful, effervescent guide to an American cider scene that should be — but too often is not — blossoming.”
By Peter Rowe, published November 10, 2023. Read here.
Read: “Beer & Cider: You Can Love Both!” book review in Beer Paper LA
“Demmon is expert in beer and cider and it shows…”
“If the book were just a selection of ciders, that would be enough but each of those selections comes with either additional recommendations, information about the cider producer or, most importantly, food pairings. This is where the book really shines. Demmon really stretches to find both unique and comfort foods that will bring out and enhance a ciders flavor. World cuisine is brought into play more so than I have seen in most food and drinks books and there is thought to the vegetarian and vegans as well. Those foodie paragraphs showed real care when it would have been easy to just say, cheese.”
“The Beer Lover’s Guide to Cider succeeds because of the knowledge and empathy of Demmon that is on every page of this book.”
By Sean Inman, published in the October 2023 issue of Beer Paper.
Read: Editors’ Picks: The Brewer’s Library in Craft Beer & Brewing Magazine
Published December 21, 2023. Read here.
Sneak peek inside the book with illustrations by Tim Skirven
Endorsements
““In this well-researched and clearly-written guide, Beth breaks down some of the best ciders in the country into discrete categories with common characteristics and simple yet thoughtful descriptions. Despite the beer-forward title, anyone with a passing knowledge of beer and an appreciation for new beverages can rely on Beth’s notable history as a judge of flavors and obviously excellent palate (she did include a couple of my ciders after all) to steer them toward their next favorite drink.””
““Craft beer drinkers are curious. From the earliest days of the Craft Beer Revolution, they have explored and demanded different styles and ingredients. Their curiosity flung open the door for cider, craft beer’s cousin. Brewers and cider makers share a passion for innovation and creativity. While distinctive and different, we share the same store coolers, restaurant menus, and many of the same drinkers... [Beth’s] knowledge and enthusiasm for craft beer and cider ennobles both beverages. The Beer Lover’s Guide to Cider takes beer lovers on a wonderful journey through the cider landscape and teaches us to appreciate cider with a brewer’s palate.”
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““Nothing surpasses the enthusiasm and zeal of a recent convert as regards the desire to share a newfound passion. Cider is the lucky recipient of this in The Beer Lover’s Guide to Cider, where Beth Demmon offers up numerous examples illustrating her enjoyment of the breadth of cider. Coming from a beer orientation, Beth refreshingly still wrangles with the challenges that any boundary-crossing engagement presents. There is a cider for everyone and here is the perfect launch pad from which to start that new adventure. Really, this is not just for beer lovers, but for everyone who wants a whole new world of drinks opened up before their eyes.””
““Beth Demmon does a fantastic job giving cider the spotlight it has long deserved. Her book is another tool that cider can use to convert more new, diverse, inclusive consumers into cider drinkers. She smartly uses beer as the basis of introduction to make the beverage approachable and easy to understand for those new to cider.””