ERICA SHEA and amp; STEPHEN VALAND are co-owners and founders of the Brooklyn Brew Shop and the authors of The Brooklyn Brew Shop's Beer Making Book. They sell their beer making kits and ingredient mixes at BrooklynBrewShop.com, the Brooklyn Flea, Williams-Sonoma, Urban Outfitters, West Elm, Bed, Bath, and amp; Beyond, and Whole Foods.
Barry Scott Zellen is a senior research scholar at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, USA, where he is Director of the Project on Climate and Conflict and Editor-in-Chief of The Culture and Conflict Review and The Climate and Conflict Review journals. He has published several books, including State of Doom: Bernard Brodie, the Bomb, and the Birth of the Bipolar World (Continuum, 2011).A contributing editor to Wine Spectator, JENNIFER FIEDLER writes WineSpectator.com's biweekly food and wine pairing column "8 and $20" and covers wine collecting, auctions, QandAs, and design for the magazine. She was a co-author of Brooklyn Beer Shop's Beer Making Book, and has a degree in English… from Yale University and a Grande Diplome from the French Culinary Institute in New York City.