Posts Tagged: Book Reviews
Book Review: Three More Books For The Library
Posted by on Sunday, October 8, 2006 in - leave a comment
While we continue to work on the advertising opportunities around here, I am pleased to state that publishers are the keenest participants in the expansion of A Good Beer Blog Nation through their supply of review copies of books. And these three are fantastic additions to any library that I can …
Pete Brown: The Interview
Posted by on Wednesday, September 27, 2006 in - 7 comments
I like my non-job here at A Good Beer Blog. One thing I get to do - other than never have a second beer of the same type - is meet interesting people involved with beer over the internet. Consider this exchange about beer and language between me and beer book author Pete Brown: • “Pete: Hi Alan …
Book Review: <i>Great American Beer</i>
Posted by on Sunday, August 20, 2006 in - 5 comments
This is a handy neat smaller format hardcover that the publisher was kind enough to FedEx me this week. And I am glad they did as this is a dandy guide to its exact topic: post WWII, pre-micro revolution pre-branding US beer. The author gladly admits this in the introduction: • “The antithesis …
Book Review: Three Beer Books I Do Not Love
Posted by on Monday, August 7, 2006 in - 6 comments
I am a lucky guy. I now get books I ask for sent to me so I can review them for you. I like to think that I only review the ones I have a great deal of respect for but, still, the others do pile up...even if it is a little pile as there still are not that many books about beer being written. So …
Book Review: <i>The Essential Reference of Domestic Brewers and Their Bottled Brands</i>
Posted by on Tuesday, May 30, 2006 in - 5 comments
I recently received a review copy of the second edition of the "Essential Reference of Domestic Brewers and Their Bottled Brands". Published by MC Basset, it is quite an interesting book as in a way it is not a book so much as part of a system, a tool which also includes access to an updated data …
Book Review: <i>The Good Beer Guide To New England</i>
Posted by on Monday, May 22, 2006 in - 1 comment
A year ago, Lew Bryson wrote this in his email newsletter The Occasional Pint: • “I'm also kicking around ideas for the next book. New Jersey Breweries is already in planning stages, but what's down the road is a bit obscure. I've thought about doing a rye whiskey book, or a bourbon book. At the …
Book Review: <i>Beer in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance</i>
Posted by on Monday, April 10, 2006 in - 7 comments
Finding this, for the beer nerd who also likes book with footnotes, is something of a moment, a wee glimpse of nirvana. The author, Richard W. Unger, is a professor of the history of the medieval period from the University of British Columbia who has also written texts about shipping and brewing …
Book Review: <i>Travels With Barley</i>
Posted by on Thursday, March 2, 2006 in - 5 comments
I have not yet gotten on to the great reviewing list out there even if I am on the great beer news PR consultant list. That's OK as I pretty much like most beer books that are put before me including this one. • Travels With Barley: A Journey Through Beer Culture In America, published in 2004 …
<i>Alcoholica Esoterica</i> By Ian Lender
Posted by on Saturday, December 3, 2005 in - 2 comments
A few weeks ago I received a free review copy of Alcoholica Esoterica by Ian Lender sent to me by Yen Cheong of Penguin Books in New York. I must say one of the unexpected up sides of blogging has been the wee free gifties that come along and this one is no different. • This book is not the sort …
Grrreat Scots!
Posted by on Monday, September 19, 2005 in - 6 comments
Five different takes on scotch ales...three of which are even from Scotland. The two on the ends are from Smuttynose of New Hampshire, left, and Middle Ages of Syracuse, NY to the right. Who can not love a nation of ale that includes the style called heavy and know that it is not even the heaviest …
