Most, if not all books about beer, are non-fiction. You are not going to find brewers as the focus of fictional lives. The tilt is towards the dangerous and event filled occupations like firefighters or spies. But along comes….

What’s great about the Lager Queen of Minnesota (which is now on my reading list) is that it is not only about beer but about woman and beer. The author, ” Stradal says he visited more than three dozen breweries in his research for the book. “The women I met working at these breweries were really inspiring,” he says.”