Posts Tagged: Book Reviews
Book Review: Beer School by Hindy and Potter
Posted by on Sunday, February 25, 2007 in - 1 comment
I recently received a number of copies of this book now in its paperback release. The extra copies are for the current beer blog contest (winners soon to be announced) and have to admit that I enjoyed it even though it covered very similar ground as another previously reviewed book - and a book …
Book Review: <i>Brew Like A Monk</i> by Stan Hieronymus
Posted by on Monday, January 29, 2007 in - 1 comment
Brew Like A Monk came in the mail last week. It is part two of a three-part book on the ales of Belgium published over the last few years by Brewers Publications. The author, Stan Hieronymus, is one of those kind more experienced beer writers who has been very supportive over the life of this here …
Book Review: Arcadia's Books About Brewing
Posted by on Monday, January 22, 2007 in - leave a comment
A few weeks ago I noticed that Arcadia Publishing had some titles relating to beer. I like these books which are essentially collections of old photos, press clippings and diagrams of very specific topics. In upstate New York, for example, you can pretty much find a collection of your town or …
Book Review: <i>Best Bars of New York</i> by Jef Klein
Posted by on Tuesday, January 16, 2007 in - 1 comment
I received this book in the mail last week from Turner Publishing and I think it makes a good addition to the beer library. In a nutshell, it is a coffee table book with black and white photos of thirty great bars in the Big Apple. Some are historic places like McSorley's Old Ale House, with those …
Book Review: <i>Brewed In Canada</i>, Allen Winn Sneath
Posted by on Sunday, January 7, 2007 in - leave a comment
With all the reviews of whatever comes through the door I do, I should not forget some recent and not so recent books I have come to rely upon and give them an airing, too. Brewed In Canada subtitled "The Untold Story of Canada's 350-Year-Old Brewing Industry" (a gift from two and a half years ago …
Book Review: <i>A History of Beer and Brewing</i>, Ian S. Hornsey
Posted by on Tuesday, December 12, 2006 in - 2 comments
I have been working thought my review copy of this 632 page paperback published by the Royal Society of Chemistry for the best part of a month now. It is fascinating. Likely the best book on beer I have ever read. Clear, comprehensive and incredibly well-researched, this book contextualized beer …
Book Review: <i>Ambitious Brew</i> by Maureen Ogle
Posted by on Wednesday, December 6, 2006 in - 3 comments
I am of two minds about this book. On the one hand it mainly discusses a topic that has not been much written about - the establishment of the macro brewing business within the USA from its first years in the Mid-west German immigrant community to the great days in the 1950s of little taste in …
Beery Travels and Books
Posted by on Saturday, December 2, 2006 in - 3 comments
It's good to be back and I have some beers I want to tell you about. But first just a word about what I've been up to. Shortly after my last post here I hopped on an airplane for England where I spent the better part of the month of September wandering from pub to pub collecting life experience … read more »
Book Review: <i>The Football and Real Ale Guides</i>
Posted by on Thursday, October 19, 2006 in - 2 comments
The other week I got an interesting email: • “My name is Glyn Watkins and I am the Cultural Editor, and the bloke doing the press stuff, for a set of books called the Stedders Football and Real Ale Guides 2006-07. these are published by a friend called Richard Stedman, who gave up teaching to …
Reason #17 As To Why We Need Sponsorships
Posted by on Monday, October 16, 2006 in - 6 comments
This is what I am talking about. I would love to get a copy of this book but - wow! - one hundred and fifty-four clams. Don't get me wrong. A History of Brewing in Holland 900-1900: Economy, Technology and the State by Richard W. Unger (2001) would fit very nicely beside his next following text …
