Brian Yaeger is the author of Oregon Breweries and Red, White, and Brew: An American Beer Odyssey. He contributed to the Oxford Companion to Beer and is frequently published by national/local print/digital outlets. Yaeger has appeared on NPR’s Marketplace with Kai Ryssdal and Martha Stewart Living Radio. He is a Certified Cicerone who earned a Master in Professional Writing (with a thesis on beer) from the University of Southern California and BA in Russian Studies from the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he teaches classes on beer and cider.