Government Beers


Fiction - Humor/Comedy
306 Pages
Reviewed on 01/11/2014
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Reviewed by Bil Howard for Readers' Favorite

What in the world do a NASA satellite program, race cars, beer, and a 7-year-old who is fighting for his life against cancer have in common? Well, on the surface, not a single thing, however Government Beers by Guy M. Beaver proves that unintentional things often fall into place in order to produce something totally illogical, but ultimately extraordinary. Mixing the microbrewery plans for Langley Lager into one of the most lucrative NASA proposals that Gordon Miller’s team had ever put together creates a whole new concept which ends up being a delightfully funny error and a delicious new government beer. Having read the deadline date wrong, the team ends up having only 36 hours to put their proposal together. Mixed into that same span of 36 hours is the interest of another party who would like to buy and brew the special micro-brew beer that they had developed more or less as a hobby in their little pub near Langley Air Force Base. They already had the contract with NASA when they discovered that microbrewery plans had been included in the proposal and was funded. Ultimately, what they do with that funding ends up not only producing a government beer, but also ends up being a blessing to Wesley Larkins who is battling cancer.

Government Beers is a hilarious story which allows the reader to not only enjoy some of the quirkiness of rocket scientists as they do what they do best with the latest and greatest space technology, but also shows how humanity can take an accident and turn it into something that actually does some good. Hilarious, heartwarming and quirky, Government Beers is one of the most delightful accidents that you will ever read about and it will keep a smile on your face long after you turn the last page.

Maria Beltran

Government Beers by Guy M. Beaver, takes us inside the inner sanctum of a NASA project where rocket scientist Gordon Miller and his team are tasked to make a 3-year, $300 million proposal to measure global CO2 and temperature. This is also designed to create 3,000 jobs so that the US government’s executive branch could take credit for it. Aside from this, he is also involved in managing a microbrewery and running a charitable foundation, which is initiated to help 7-year-old Wesley Larkin, who is stricken with cancer. And with his friend and colleague Brent, Gordon also dabbles in race cars. With all these in his hands, it is interesting to get to know what makes Gordon do the things that he does and how he finds the energy to buckle the bureaucracy inherent in his line of work.

Guy M. Beaver obviously knows what stuff the men working at the NASA Langley Research Center are made of. His novel, Government Beers, unfolds inside the NASA facility near the historic places of Hampton Roads, Virginia, which is a very unusual place for a microbrewery. But this is not the only unusual element of the story. This is a world which Nobel prize winners and rocket scientists inhabit. Told in simple language, the reader will not be lost in a sea of scientific jargon that, admittedly, would have tended to make the narrative boring. On the contrary, he keeps the story interesting by dwelling on the very human side of his extraordinary characters. This book is an enjoyable read!