BUSINESS FOR PUNKS James Watt Portfolio Penguin Maybe it’s just me, but it’s really not a good sign when you write a business book where the advice you give inside directly contracts […]
BrewDog not really breaking all the rules
Grab a coldie! book review
Grab a Coldie – ’80s Beer Culture in Australia Michael Bannenberg Five Mile Press Even though this book was published in 2011 I only bought it last year. And I only bought […]
Best book on Budweiser and Busch
Under the Influence – The Unauthorised Story of the Anheuser-Busch Dynasty Peter Hernon and Terry Ganey Simon and Schuster Back in 1991 when this book was published, I’m sure it caused quite […]
Beer book that leaves me bitter
Uncle John’s Beer-Topia: A Heady Brew of Beer Miscellany By the Bathroom Readers’ Institute Portable Press (2015) I’m going to guess this book was researched almost entirely on the internet. That’s because […]
A great guide to booze
Thinking Drinkers: The Enlightened Imbiber’s Guide to Alcohol Ben McFarland and Tom Sandham Jacqui Small publishing McFarland and Sandham ‘‘are two of the UK’s leading experts on alcohol’’ according to the blurb […]
Making a great beer book
We Make Beer Sean Lewis St Martins Press (2014) Okay, the subtitle of this book put me off for ages. It reads ‘‘Inside the spirit and artistry of America’s craft brewers’’. Spirit? […]
A less than perfect book
The Perfect Keg Ian Coutts Greystone Books This is a book that features a great idea but one that is not that well executed. The idea is this – Coutts decides to […]
A food history of NYC
Eat The City Robin Shulman Broadway Paperbacks (2012) Imagine a book in which the least-interesting chapter is the one about beer. Yes, that’s right – the least interesting chapter. Actually, I should […]
The truth about those bland US beers
Ambitious Brew – The Story of American Beer Maureen Ogle Harcourt (2006) Chances are you’ve heard the story about US mega-brewers like Anheuser-Busch made their beer as cheap as possible through the […]
Hindy’s beer history
The Craft Beer Revolution Steve Hindy Palgrave Macmillan As the move to better beers gets bigger and bigger, publishing companies are starting to realise that there is a market for books about […]
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