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.300 Beers to Try Before You Die
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by: Roger Protz

July 30, 2005
Protz is well-known as a beer man and writes well - if a little predictably (I seem to have read some of this before in some of his other, many, tomes). But the pictures are fabulous and if you're a beer bore, a ticker or just fanatical about real ale, you'll love this on your coffee table, to make you yearn for a decent pint (or bottle) rather than the usual rubbish down the local.
However I do think there are better recent beer books - for instance Adrian Tierney-Jones' Big Book of Beer - produced also by CAMRA - is pretty damn excellent and very informative (I learned lots of new stuff from it). Also Pete Brown's Three Sheets to the Wind for one man's obsessive hunt for beer around the world.
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.How to Brew: Everything You Need to Know to Brew Beer Right for the First Time
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by: John J. Palmer

May 24, 2006
For the technical side of brewing this book covers what you need to know! I also have the "complete joy of homebrewing" which is also a great book and lot of fun to read, but to be honest it is not as up to date as this book. I recommend this book together with "designing great beer" - with this set you'll be able to brew the most common types of beer with very good results.
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.London Pub Walks (Camra)
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by: Bob Steel

February 19, 2006
I own one of the pubs listed, the George and Devonshire, in Chiswick. It is the oldest pub in Chiswick, built some time prior to 1657, and we still trade in the original building. However, Bob Steel commits the cardinal error of not checking his facts by casually stating the the pub is s '20th century re-build', which would appear to be obvious nonsense to anyone who has actually visited the place! If Bob Steel did not visit the George and Devonshire, which is Casque Mark accredited for the quality of our real ale, how many other pubs included in the book were also not visited?
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.Big Book of Beer (Camra)
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by: Adrian Tierney-Jones

November 04, 2005
I bought this book for my boyfriend, who likes a pint but doesn't really know that much about the technicalities of beer, real ale and so on. He looked a bit dismissive, flipped through it and then started reading a caption (just to humour me, I think). Two hours later he was still reading and he has had his nose in and out of it ever since. It's a lovely-looking book and very easy to drop in and out of - as the text is broken down into bite-sized chunks and almost features, with lots of pictures. It's written in a very easy, conversational style and I was surprised to find how fascinating beer really is. I learned tons about how it is made, why there are so many different styles and even more amazed to find you can team beer with ... Read More:
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.The Complete Joy of Homebrewing Third Edition (Harperresource Book)
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by: Charlie Papazian

2003-10
I bought this book for my husband who has been brewing in our kitchen for 30 years.

There is a lot of useful information in this book and it is great for bedtime reading because you can pick it up and browse through a few pages.

I marked it down by a star because some of the ingredients are either impossible or difficult to get hold of here in the UK.

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.Designing Great Beers: The Ultimate Guide to Brewing Classic Beer Styles
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by: Ray Daniels

December 01, 1996
A phenomenal book for designing your own all grain recipes. Very easy to read as you can read just the chapter you need for brewing a specific type of beer and get some useful hints. Also it is highly recommended for European readers as the metric system is consequently used thorough the book.
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.Man Walks into a Pub: A Sociable History of Beer
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by: Pete Brown

June 04, 2004
"Man Walks into a Pub" is a well researched piece of work from a guy who spent a fair number of years in the booze trade. I bought this book after it was featured in a copy of the Writers' Forum and the author seemed to be a genuine down-to-earth fellow; the kind of regular who you'd be likely to meet in a local bar.

It's packed full of anecdotes - for example, the average pint back in 1914 was 8% in strength (compared to 4-5% today).

This is the kind of book that your father would enjoy on his birthday, at Christmas or on Father's Day. It's a read for the man who probably has just about everything and you can't think of what to get him. It covers economic, social and business aspects of alcohol. Even politics is discussed - for ... Read More:
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.The Microbrewers' Handbook
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by: Ted Bruning

September 21, 2007
"Man Walks into a Pub" is a well researched piece of work from a guy who spent a fair number of years in the booze trade. I bought this book after it was featured in a copy of the Writers' Forum and the author seemed to be a genuine down-to-earth fellow; the kind of regular who you'd be likely to meet in a local bar.

It's packed full of anecdotes - for example, the average pint back in 1914 was 8% in strength (compared to 4-5% today).

This is the kind of book that your father would enjoy on his birthday, at Christmas or on Father's Day. It's a read for the man who probably has just about everything and you can't think of what to get him. It covers economic, social and business aspects of alcohol. Even politics is discussed - for ... Read More:
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.Good Beer Guide to Belgium
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by: Tim Webb

May 31, 2005
Absolutely, totally, and amen to all that. Webb is THE beer writer in English and anybody interested in beer should have this book. And make the pilgrimage. What sets this book apart, apart from the density of knowledge, which is formidable, is the quality and texture of the opinion, which is deft, witty, ironic, fun, and - probably more important than any of these - solidly based in 25 years of research - it's a hard job, but somebody has to do it....
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.The Alaskan Bootlegger's Bible
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by: Leon W. Kania

2000-06
Great fun,informative and inspiring, I haven't finished it yet and I can't wait to get brewing! Leon sounds like the kinda guy you just want to be mates with, love the pore-boy stuff, great way of hashing together the basic stuff for brewing and bottling, of course none of us would dare to hazard the making of a still!! Overall a great read laced with good humour
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