Posts Tagged: Books and Book Reviews
Book Review: Great American Craft Beer, Andy Crouch
Posted by on Sunday, August 15, 2010 in - 1 comment
One of the most important things I ever learned in life was the importance of an index. Why? Well, if you are overwhelmed by information as I was in law school I learned that reading the index for each course's material (because that is what we called it: "material") was what was in the course and …
Book Review: Tasting Beer, Randy Mosher
Posted by on Monday, July 26, 2010 in - 5 comments
Tasting Beer has been on the shelves for about a year and a half but I just threw a copy into a larger order from Amazon the other day. I like it fine but it is not the book I thought I was getting. I blame the internets as I didn't have that browsing moment leaning against a books shelf half …
What Books To Choose To Start A Beer Library?
Posted by on Wednesday, June 2, 2010 in - 8 comments
I had the idea that part of my playing at training brewery staff might be to recommend the beginnings of a library. I figure most long distance sales rep and junior brewers have plenty of hours to flip through the pages of text books. I just needed to figure out which ones to select. Right? Then …
Book Review: Brewing With Wheat By Stan Hieronymus
Posted by on Monday, March 15, 2010 in - 3 comments
I got my review copy of Stan's new book in the mail today. Stan is so clever he already has the book's own website up. I have a disclaimer. I like Stan. Sometimes we send giggly emails to each other. Disclosure over. • Stan researched the book on his family's global trip that passed through my …
How Do We Now Place The Work Of Michael Jackson?
Posted by on Saturday, February 6, 2010 in - 16 comments
I have no real skin in this question. Never met the man but at the same time have plenty of his books. Professionally with my LLB / LLM [Ed.: not as impressive as might seem to suggest] and academically with my BA in English [Ed.: now, bow ye down before me] I am used to the idea that there are …
Book Review: A Life On The Hop, Roger Protz
Posted by on Tuesday, January 12, 2010 in - 2 comments
I bought a copy of this book after looking around and only finding Knut's observations from last summer on the difference between its marketing and that of Pete Brown's Hops and Glory. There was a press release by its publisher CAMRA, a nibbly bit by the NUJ, a smidge from his editorial assistant …
Allsopp's Arctic Ale And Arctic Homebrew In 1852
Posted by on Wednesday, January 6, 2010 in - 3 comments
There is a bit of beery backroom buzz about plans to make a movie about the Allsopp's Arctic Ale, the beer which accompanied a British navy expedition in the Canadian high Arctic in the mid-eighteenth century. The film maker's website is not up yet but there is a Facebook page which reports …
Book Review: 33 Bottles of Beer, Dave Selden and Pals
Posted by on Tuesday, January 5, 2010 in - leave a comment
I got an envelope from Dave Selden of Portland, Oregon right after the end of the end of the photo contest. In it there was a real letter on real letterhead and two copies of the booklet 33 Bottles of Beer. I should have been a lesson to me as I still haven't mailed out the three prizes I was …
Book Review: World's Best Beers By Ben McFarland
Posted by on Thursday, December 10, 2009 in - 6 comments
Cole Porter laid it out for us all. The mathematics of what is "top" proves is a very difficult thing to determine. Whether you say "top" or "leading" or "foremost" or "best" it is all the same. You are not saying much. Consider that Cole Porter's equation inherent in the lyrics of You're The Top …
Day 21: Prize Buying With One Week To Go
Posted by on Sunday, December 6, 2009 in - 2 comments
I was checking out Amazon to see what beer books I missed this year. Huge sale on so, being the canny Yuletide 2009 beer photo context administrator I am, I picked up a few extra copies on the cheap of Pete Brown's books for you US readers who have been frozen out by some insane publishers who …
