Lew Bryson is a freelance beer and spirits writer. He has worked in the retail off-premise beer business, tended bar at a small resort during college, and he has lifted a few sacks of malt and stirred some mash at small breweries. “I like to get hands-on whenever possible,” he says.

Bryson’s column on the appreciation and business of beer, “First Draft,” appears every other Friday at Portfolio.com, the content website for Condé Nast Portfolio magazine. He is the managing editor at Malt Advocate magazine, the country’s leading whisky publication, and writes the “Whisky News” and “American Spirit” columns, as well as regular features. He appears frequently in Cheers, BeerAdvocate Magazine, American Brewer, and a variety of newspapers. Bryson is also the author of three regional brewery guidebooks, with a fourth in press.

He has been writing full-time since 1996, and travels frequently to keep up with the beer and whiskey business. Bryson lives north of Philadelphia with his wife and two children. He writes regularly on beer and drinking at his blog, “Seen Through A Glass” (lewbryson.blogspot.com).

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