Posts Tagged: Book Reviews
Protz's <i>300 Beers To Try Before You Die!</i>
Posted by on Monday, September 5, 2005 in - leave a comment
I mentioned Roger Protz's new book 300 Beers To Try Before You Die! the other day and what did Knut, our man in Norway, do? He got a copy and has reviewed it for us - even sending a very snazzy cover shot, too. Here's the review: • “British beer writer veteran Roger Protz has a new book out …
Recommended Reading
Posted by on Sunday, August 28, 2005 in - leave a comment
I love a good beer book and I see from The Guardian that Tom Cannavan's pal Roger Protz has a new book for us to read called 300 Beers to Try Before You Die!. The reviewer says: • “OK, this is beer porn, in that many of the products are brewed on the other side of the world and are for most …
Beer Biotech
Posted by on Tuesday, January 18, 2005 in - leave a comment
One of the cornerstones of my enthusiasm for brewing comes from the fact that I have brewed for years, though I am on a break from it now that I am a happy apartment dweller. One of the best ways to pick up some of the information that the homebrewer gets through hands on experience with the …
Terry Foster, Beer Writer
Posted by on Sunday, November 7, 2004 in - leave a comment
Terry Foster is one of my favorite beer writers and the most interesting thing about him as a beer writer these days is he does not have a website. I don't know how you can exist without a website these days. How else will all the Google bots be able to share your daily musings. Google …
Lew Bryson on Beer
Posted by on Monday, October 25, 2004 in - 6 comments
I like the books of Lew Bryson and have relied on them during a few family trips we have taken into the States this year. Before you call the Chidren's Aid, one thing Lew does in his guides which make them valuable from the get go is his focus on the practical so the entry in New York Breweries …
Martyn Wins!
Posted by on Wednesday, December 3, 2003 in - 1 comment
I was very pleased to receive this note in my email this morning: • “I am delighted to tell you that Beer: The Story of the Pint was awarded the gold tankard for best beer book 2003 at the British Guild of Beer Writers annual awards last night. • Martyn Cornell • ” • You will recall that …
<i>Beer: The Story of the Pint</i>
Posted by on Sunday, October 5, 2003 in - leave a comment
Last July, I wrote a review • of Pete Brown's book Man Walks into a Pub. Over 7 weeks later, A • reply was posted by Martyn Cornell: • “I had better declare a massive interest before I • begin, since I'm the author of Beer: The Story of the Pint, which came out two • months after Pete …
Books About Beer
Posted by on Friday, May 23, 2003 in - 4 comments
Some of you may know me. Few that do have missed the fact that I like all things ale. I say that specifically as I really have not taken to lagers, those johnny-come-latelies of the zymurgical - based on a yeast isolated only in the late 1830's which ferments at 50 F. It might as well be Koolaid …
