“Despite the fact that I’m a committed New York partisan, even I have to admit the fact that
Northern California was the well-spring of the modern American renaissance of food, wine and,
of course, beer. If you want to explore where it all comes from, The Northern California Craft
Beer Guide will regale you with history, seduce you with juicy details, and then lead you to the
front doors of northern California’s finest beer establishments.” 

– Garrett Oliver, Brewmaster of The Brooklyn Brewery and Editor-in-Chief of The Oxford Companion to Beer 

"For craft beer converts northern California might just be Mecca, and there's no better tour guide
to the promised land of puckering sour beers, deliciously bitter double IPAs and barrel-aged brews
than Ken Weaver. With playful prose and a been-there-drank-that incisiveness, Ken uncovers
California's finest suds, from the tiniest nanobrewery to the pioneering breweries stretching the
very boundaries of beer. Pack your bags: You're in for a tasty trip.” 

 – Joshua M. Bernstein, author of Brewed Awakening 

“You appreciate a tour guide who’ll lead you to beer in Yosemite. You buy a round for one who
understands why the exact same beer tastes better there than any place else. Meet Ken Weaver.” 

 – Stan Hieronymus, author of Brew Like a Monk, Brewing With Wheat,
and the upcoming book, For the Love of Hops.