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I\\u2019m Evan Rail, and you\\u2019re listening to the Good Beer Hunting podcast.

Pilsner, as a style, is currently \\u201chaving a moment,\\u201d with cult breweries everywhere from Travis County, Texas, to County Durham in northeast England producing highly sought-after versions of the beer that was first brewed in the Czech town of Pilsen in 1842\\u2014and which was once the epitome, for many craft beer lovers, of the widely derided \\u201cfizzy yellow beer.\\u201d Formerly largely ignored in favor of Ales, especially variations on India Pale Ale, by earlier generations of beer fans, Pilsner, here at the start of the 2020s, is pretty close to the hot new thing. So how did that happen? And\\xa0why\\xa0did that happen? And what\\u2019s Pilsner\\u2019s backstory?

Tom Acitelli is the author of a new book, \\u201cPilsner: How the Beer of Kings Changed the World.\\u201d A longtime drinks journalist, Acitelli also wrote \\u201cThe Audacity of Hops: The History of America\\u2019s Craft Beer Revolution,\\u201d as well as books on wine and whiskey. You\\u2019ve seen his byline in\\xa0The Wall Street Journal, Eater.com,\\xa0The Washington Post,\\xa0All About Beer\\xa0(where he was the history columnist for several years), and most recently here at Good Beer Hunting, where his feature story,\\xa0Grab and Go \\u2014 How Imperialism Aided the Spread of European Beer, covered the historical connections between colonization and the appearance of European beer styles in Africa and elsewhere.

In this episode, I\\u2019m talking with Tom Acitelli about Pilsner, its backstory, the history of craft, as well as imperialism, the temperance movement, and the big picture of alcohol in America. It\\u2019s a wide-ranging conversation with one of the beer world\\u2019s best writers.

This is Tom Acitelli, author of \\u201cPilsner: How the Beer of Kings Changed the World.\\u201d Listen in.