Posts Tagged: Book Reviews
Book To Be Reviewed:"Taverns and Drinking in Early America"
Posted by on Monday, August 25, 2008 in - 11 comments
I really shouldn't call this a book review when I have only read the introduction. Has anyone else seen this book by Sharon V. Salinger of UC Irvine? I found it at the Fort Stanwix gift shop in Rome, NY yesterday as we were driving back from Maine. From the first bit I have read, it appears to be … read more »
Book Review: "Amber Gold and Black" by Martyn Cornell
Posted by on Monday, August 4, 2008 in - leave a comment
OK, this is not so much a book review as an announcement of a book to be reviewed. I received an email today from Martyn Cornell of both the blog Zythophile as well as the excellent book Beer: The Story of the Pint, one of my first beery book reviews almost five years ago now. He has published an …
Book Review: Table Talk by A.A. Gill
Posted by on Saturday, May 17, 2008 in - 2 comments
You should know from the outset that this book is not about beer. And don't expect there to be much discussion of beer as the author explains how he was, as he puts it, a drunk: "...I would assiduously get up every morning and go to a pub, the way my grandfather went to the bank." So why do I …
Book Review: CAMRA's Good Beer Guide West Coast USA
Posted by on Tuesday, May 13, 2008 in - 6 comments
This is a funny book. Guide books can be. You see they are to guide people from "X" around about a little old place we like to call "Y". If you are from "X" or "Y", you are likely going to understand what's going on but if you are not it gets to be a bit of an exercise in cultural anthropology … read more »
Book Review: Part II, "Brewing Battles" By Amy Mittelman
Posted by on Saturday, May 3, 2008 in - leave a comment
Well, I am now coming up to half way through Amy Mittelman's book Brewing Battles and I have to tell you that as far as I am concerned this is the best book on US beer history I have had my hands on. That being said, I admit I have not got a copy of 1962's Brewed in America The level of research …
Book Review: "Brewing Battles" By Amy Mittelman
Posted by on Monday, April 21, 2008 in - leave a comment
This really should be labeled as "book review, part one" given I have not hit the half way point in this book, published just this year. But as I have complained long and hard about the absence of a comprehensive US brewing history, I am driven to tap and type, to type and tap. In a nutshell, this …
Book Review: "Beer and Skittles", Richard Boston
Posted by on Wednesday, March 19, 2008 in - 3 comments
This arrived from a used book shop in the UK yesterday and, today being off sick, it was a great opportunity to rip through this book in record pace. Richard Boston was the columnist for the then Manchester Guardian whose weekly "Boston on Beer" is credited as being as important as the early days …
Book Review: Great Beers Of Belgium By Michael Jackson
Posted by on Sunday, March 9, 2008 in - 7 comments
As I noted the other day, I picked up a copy of the 2006 edition of Jackson's Great Beers of Belgium the other week and I could not be happier. It is a great addition to the collection and also provides an opportunity to discuss beer writing generally. You see, the other day I called beer …
Book Review: "Xhosa Beer Drinking Rituals" By McAllister
Posted by on Monday, January 28, 2008 in - 1 comment
Like Ron, I bought a book shelf for the expanding crown of beer books in the house and, in the reshuffling of this and that, came across this book fully titled "Xhosa Beer Drinking Rituals: Power, Practice and Performance in the South African Rural Periphery" - how did I get my hands on this one …
Book Review: Land of Amber Waters, Doug Hoverson
Posted by on Sunday, November 25, 2007 in - 3 comments
I usually don't rush to write reviews of book about beer that I get in the mail. Often they either cover similar ground to existing books, are lightweight intellectually or arrive without me having made the request. But some excite the mind in a new way that simply surprises. This week's arrival …
