Posts Tagged: Books and Book Reviews
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 …
Beer Book Covers - Do You See What I See?
Posted by on Sunday, November 18, 2007 in - 1 comment
Once, when my firm was considering a new logo and had just received a new design it had paid for with the four letters of the acronym being placed in green boxes, I pointed out to the boss a seed catalog I had just received from a UK firm whose four letter firm name acronym in the same font was …
Beer And Philosophy: The Book Is Out!
Posted by on Tuesday, October 23, 2007 in - 7 comments
It is either out or I have just received my copy but either way it is all quite exciting to have a book in my hand with a chapter written by me. So, of course, I read my chapter first and found myself thinking that I could have written most sentences better and that I hoped I didn't lose all the …
Sour Beer Studies: Sweet, Sour And...<i>The Brewmaster's Table</i>
Posted by on Wednesday, October 10, 2007 in - leave a comment
I have been a bad beer blogger. I just got a copy of Garrett Oliver's The Brewmaster's Table. One baaad beer blogger. And not bad like ManRam says either. The fact is, I thought it was really more like The Brewmaster's "Kitchen" and had expected it was more like a recipe book. Not that there is …
Session 8: Food and Beer With Lucy Saunders
Posted by on Friday, October 5, 2007 in - leave a comment
Most excellent! I forgot it was session day today and the topic is food and beer as picked by the poetical industrial complex behind Beer Haiku Daily. As it happens, a few weeks ago...or more likely months...beer cook extraordinaire Lucy Saunders was kind enough to forward a review copy of her …
Book Review: Michigan Breweries by Ruschmann and Nasiatka
Posted by on Monday, July 23, 2007 in - leave a comment
I thought I knew nothing about Michigan Breweries. But one of the nice things about being in Ontario is that is practically stretches from Vermont to the Dakotas leaving lots of opportunity for me and my pals to zip across and then barter their bottles. That is what happened the other week when I …
Book Review: <i>The US Brewing Industry</i> by Tremblay and Tremblay
Posted by on Sunday, July 15, 2007 in - 1 comment
Like any member of the bar, I think a lot of myself. I think there are not too many documents I cannot wade through and conquer. I think I have met my match, not because it is too complex or on a topic that I cannot grasp but that it is in a language I have never come across before - economic …
Book Review: Pub Games Of England by Timothy Finn
Posted by on Wednesday, June 27, 2007 in - leave a comment
This finally came from Amazon.co.uk after ordering it not long after mid-February, right around when I decided to create The Pub Game Project. The roaring silence that followed was lesson enough that this book was very much needed in the library. • And what a treat it is. Now I can trick the …
Book Review: Good Beer Guide To Prague, by Evan Rail
Posted by on Monday, June 11, 2007 in - 1 comment
It is really the Good Beer Guide Prague and the Czech Republic that CAMRA recently published by our own correspondent Evan Rail - OK, ours and The New York Times. But there is only so much space up there to fit in the key information. If Evan ever moves further east and decides to write the Good …
