Confessions of a Craft Beer Dad | Fatherly

During fall 2013, I found myself overwhelmed by two newborns, only one of which was human. That September marked the release of my second book, The Complete Beer Course, a 320-page guide through the confusing and quickly expanding craft beer world. I finished my book tour and returned home to Brooklyn just two weeks before the birth of our daughter, Violet, in November.

Some new dads celebrate with cigars. That seemed off brand for a journalist and author specializing in beer. Instead, I marked the occasion with a fresh Sierra Nevada Celebration, a cold bottle in one hand, a warm newborn cradled in the other. I was officially a Craft Beer Dad, an IPA never far from the diaper-changing station.

For Fatherly, I look at what it’s been like to raise a kid while reporting on the seismic changes in the craft beer industry.