A note from the author:

Once upon a time (right about now), there was a planet (this one) whose inhabitants consumed 36 billion gallons of beer each year. Living among all those bubbles, burps and suds was a smart, wide-eyed, adventurous kindergartner named Gracie; her beaten down mommy, her shyster dad, her left field uncle-and a certain magical intruder. Accompanied by those characters, Robbins enlists readers, young and old, in a surprising, far-reaching investigation into the meaning of the brewski.

Neither a parody nor a satire, this trans-generational, charmingly subversive tale sees Robbins take the side of children in their struggle to comprehend and cope with the perplexing mysteries of the adult world; while, perhaps more importantly, he celebrates their childish openness to other levels of what we normally assume is reality, their innate closeness to the greater Mystery of being.

Along the way, of course, he hoists a few cold ones.