Join the Beer Doctors in Europe this summer

Enjoying a brew in Brugge, BE

We are pleased to announce our latest project, a study abroad program called Europe and the Geography of Beer. We will be taking 16 students to Ireland, Belgium and the Netherlands to explore and learn about European beer cultural.

The trip will last 18 days and will include visits to at least 12 breweries and you will earn 6 credits. Prior to embarking for Europe, we will first teach you how to drink beer. Yes, there is a proper way! See our facebook page for more details. We hope you can join us.

Beer tweet geography gets press!

Happy Beverage Day!

So...what do you get when you combine tweets, geography, and beer? Some really awesome maps showing the regionality of "cheap" beer made by our floatingsheep.org authors Dr. Matthew Zook and Ate Poorthuis.

To celebrate our favorite beverage, enjoy the dozen and a half links we've found that have covered the highlights of this chapter: BostInno, Bustle, CBS Chicago*, the Daily Dot, Daily Mail, the Escapist, gizmodo, Houston Chronicle, live science, the Malay Mail, mic, Popular Science, PSMag, redOrbit, Science Daily (and here too), Science Magazine News, Social News Daily, Vox, and Yahoo! News

*updated after May 6

The Beer book is out!

Our book is finally available. It was a lot of work. We had to sample many beers during our field research. But empirical research of this nature is what we do best. And admittedly it was a lot of fun. We will be the first to say that the book is geared toward an academic audience. But fear not, we are hoping to work on a "coffee table" version of the book. In the mean time you can check out the book here.

Cheers!

Welcome to the Beer Doctors blogs. If you don't already know us, we are two geography professors who love to travel the world in search of that next great beer. Together, we have traveled to over 80 countries and drank far too many beers to count. While we love beer, we also appreciate the geography behind beer. After all, how can yeast, grain, water and hops produce so many different styles of beer? In a word, it's geography! Different regions produce different yeasts strains, grains, water quality and hops, which lead to brewers experimenting and coming up with so many different styles of beer.

We hope you will join us (in person or virtually) as we continue our quest for the next great beer in whatever distance land we may be exploring!