The audacity of hops: the history of America's craft beer revolution

Part 1: The last shall be first ; Do it yourself ; Beer for its own sake ; Eden, California ; TV dinner land ; Lite up ahead ; "Brewed through a horse" ; The most influential beer ; Chez McAuliffe ; The bard of beer ; Long days, longer odds.

Part 2: Tipping points ; "Small, high-quality food places" ; The bearded young man from Chico ; The fireman and the goat shed ; The west coast style ; Mayflower refugee ; How the brewpub was born ; The first shakeout ; "That's a great idea, Charlie" ; The third wave builds ; The lesson of the nylon string ; "This connoisseur thing" ; Because wine making takes too long ; More than in Europe ; Beer, it's what's with dinner ; Vats and dogs ; To the last frontier and back ; Weeping radishes and Scottish lords ; Here, there, and everywhere.

Part 3: Unhappy meals ; Second careers ; Davids and Goliaths ; Five hundred miles in a rented Honda ; New York minutes ; The revolution, televised ; A manifesto and Arnold Schwarzenegger ; The value of gold ; "The tyranny of fast growth" ; Finding role models, defying labels ; Ghosts around the machines ; Cherry brew and naked hockey ; In prime time ; Critical mass ; The potato-chip epiphany ; The brewpubs boom ; Suds and the city ; Attack of the phantom crafts ; "Budhook" and the bull beer market ; Last call for the old days ; Big beer's biggest weapon ; The French lieutenant's coat ; To the extreme ; The total package ; Boos ; The movement's biggest setback ; Lucky bastards ; A tale of two breweries ; The great shakeout ; Victory abroad, defeat at home.

Part 4: Plotting a comeback ; "McDonald's versus fine food" ; Craft beer logs on ; Growing pains again ; Still the latest thing ; Crushing it ; WIth gusto ; A great passing ; Beer, premium ; Exit the godfather ; Big crowds and the new small ; "The Albion brewery".