Craft Beer Burning

The story of Oscar and Doug, two life-long friends since kindergarten, Beer Craft Burning is a slice-of-life thriller with a microbrewery aficionado touch. As with Carl's other work, the novel concentrates heavily on the characters and their relationships with the others. Human to the core, they are flawed, giving the reader exactly whatever reader needs to connect and invest in them.

While revolving around the microbrewery scene, the book does not force the reader to understand any complicated “lingo” or processes to understand exactly what is going on. As a non-beer drinker myself, I found the information on beer crafting and the brewery scene to balanced perfectly to the point of being inviting.

Finally, as he proved with his first series, Gray Areas, the author proves that he not only knows the beer crafting scene intimately, but he's a native of the area he's writing about. Born in the Midwest, Carl knows the people, places and culture he's writing about. This isn't researched writing, this is a living perspective.