Books about beer: A late summer reading list
By William Brand
Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008 at 9:15 am in Books on Beer, Craft Beer, General.
Books: An End-of-Summer Reading List
Close out the summer with a good read about our favorite subject
Books:
Around London in 80 Beers, Chris Pollard, Siobhan McGinn, Cogan & Mater, Cambridge, $19.99, paper
Red White & Brew: A Beer Odyssey Across the U.S., Brian Yaeger, St. Martin’s Press, New York, $14.95, paper.
The Imbible, The Bash Back to School Booze Book, Alex Bash, St Martin’s Griffin, New York, $13.95, cloth.
The Ultimate Beer Lover’s Cookbook, More Than 400 Recipes, John Schlimm, Cumberland House, Nashville, $24.95, cloth.
I gotta’ admit, I’m a certified Anglophile, even though, as far as I can tell, I have absolutely no connection to England, by blood or kin. I guess its the beer. At any rate, things English charm the pants off me. I’ve just finished a great little book: Around London in 80 Beers, by Chris Pollard and Siobhan McGinn, Cogan & Mater Ltd., Cambridge, UK…READ THE REST OF THE POST…
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October 17th, 2008 at 12:50 pm
Thanks for the tip on Red, White and Brew. Read it on the plane coming back from Chicago, and enjoyed it. Yaeger is a good interviewer, and he gets a lot of good access and interviews with a lot of key pioneers in the craft brew movement. In some chapters, he really ties the brewery to its geographic place, which is what makes road trip books work in my opinion. I just wish he was more of a food critic. Surprisingly, there are few descriptions of the actual beer he samples in his quest. I wanted to know more about what the beers on his tales were like and what he thought made them special or timeless.