Two sisters, one farm. A family is split when their father leaves their shared inheritance entirely to Helen, his younger daughter. Despite baking award-winning pies at the local nursing home, her older sister, Edith, struggles to make what most people would call a living. So she can’t help wondering what her life would have been like with even a portion of the farm money her sister kept for herself.

With the proceeds from the farm, Helen builds one of the most successful light breweries in the country, and makes their company motto ubiquitous: “Drink lots. It’s Blotz.” Where Edith has a heart as big as Minnesota, Helen’s is as rigid as a steel keg. Yet one day, Helen will find she needs some help herself, and she could find a potential savior close to home. . . if it’s not too late.

Meanwhile, Edith’s granddaughter, Diana, grows up knowing that the real world requires a tougher constitution than her grandmother possesses. She earns a shot at learning the IPA business from the ground up–will that change their fortunes forever, and perhaps reunite her splintered family?

I usually give books about 50 pages before I put them down, but I didn’t make it that far. I like to get sucked into a story and disappear into the characters’ lives. I wasn’t able to do that in this book for two reasons:

– Omniscient point of view
– Short, choppy scenes

If it had been omni but longer, flowing scenes or deep third person with the short, choppy scenes, I might have been able to engage, but the two combined didn’t work for me. Just not my style.

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