Beer: The Story Of The Pint is the chronicle of Britain's favourite drink, a river that stretches back to the sacred brews of the first Neolithic farmers and forward another six millennia to today's megabreweries. It tells the story of our national obsession with brewing and answers such questions as: when did bitter and mild originate? What is the true story of porter and stout? What herbs did medieval brewers use before hops? How did lager get to be the most popular beer in Britain, rising from 2 per cent of sales to nearly 50 per cent in just 40 years? What was a Victorian brewery like? And what are the stories behind the great breweries? The British Isles have always had a beer culture, with beer drunk everywhere from ploughman's hut to palace. At last, this impeccably researched and highly original book does justice to its fascinating story. This is the last word on beer and its history - no one interested in the subject will need any other book.
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“A magnificent contribution to the history of beer that should be on every aficionado’s bookshelf.” -- Roger Protz, Editor of The Good Beer Guide
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This entertaining chronicle of Britain’s favorite drink stretches back to the sacred brews of the first Neolithic farmers and forward another six millennia to today’s mega–breweries. It tells the story of Britain’s national obsession with brewing and answers questions like: When did bitter and mild originate? What herbs did medieval brewers use before hops? What was a Victorian brewery like? The British Isles have always had a beer culture, embracing ploughmen and princes alike; Beer: The Story of the Pint does ample justice to this venerable story. Martyn Cornell has written for 20 years on the history of beer, breweries, and brewing; he is the winner of the 2000 British Guild of Beer Writers Award.
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Martyn Cornell has been a journalist and a writer for more than 30 years, and first began writing about beer in 1980. Beer is far from the most important thing in his life (that would be his family first, music second and Queens Park Rangers soccer club third) but he enjoys beer greatly, and he enjoy talking about it and and writing about it, and exploring its many and varied ways. He was born on the site of an old pub - the Upper Flask, in Hampstead, North London, which vanished some time in the 18th century - and went to school in a building that had been an old coaching inn where Samuel Pepys once stayed on his way north, so perhaps he absorbed beery history from those walls. He can remember clearly his first pint, at the age of *hem*teen, in the garden of a pub owned by the Fremlins brewery in Kent, not far from Whitstable, and being shocked at how amazingly, deliciously hoppy it tasted. Thousands of pubs, and many tens of thousands of beers later, he still looks forward to each new pint. Learning about beer, and the history of beer, has been a journey that has taken him around the world, and made him a huge number of friends. He was a founder member of the British Guild of Beer Writers and has won three Guild awards, including Beer Writer of the Year. He invented the word zythophilia, meaning 'love of beer', and his blog, zythophile.wordpress.com, is one of the most popular beer blogs in Britain.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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a "barrel" of a book!!!!,
By El Zahrul "el" (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Beer: The Story of the Pint: The History of Britain's Most Popular Drink (Paperback)
The book touches lightly on the world history of beer and from then on plunges into the depts of beer making history of Britain.. the research is impeccable and will bowl you over!!!!
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Very Informative, Well researched,
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The author of this book certainly put in a lot of effort to research and organize his material for this extremely fascinating look at beer. Many interesting stories are brought into this book that make it a great read from cover to cover. I find myself constantly referring back to its pages ofr its great nuggets of information.
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