Tom Acitelli Author

Tom Acitelli is a journalist and author widely regarded as an expert on beer and the beer industry. He has written extensively about beer for outlets including the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, and Eater, and been interviewed on the subject by NPR, BBC Radio 4, and Fox News. For five years, Tom was the history columnist for the trade magazine All About Beer, and he has also been a guest speaker or moderator at several brewery events and festivals, including the Great American Beer Festival, the world’s largest beer tasting, and consulted on the permanent brewing exhibit at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. Tom’s prior books include The Audacity of Hops, American Wine, which was a finalist for the James Beard Award for best food and drink book of the year, Whiskey Business, and Pilsner, which the North American Guild of Beer Writers voted the best book of 2020. He lives in Watertown, MA.