Author: Martin Wooster
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Book ReviewsGilroy was Good for Guinness
November 10, 2014 - Martin Wooster Visit the gift shop at the Guinness Storehouse in Dublin and you’re likely to find all sorts of breweriana based on the great series of animal advertisements Guinness produced between 1934 and 1961. You’ve undoubtedly seen a lot of them: the toucan flying with two pints of Guinness on its beak, the ostrich with a... View Article -
Book ReviewsBritain’s Lost Breweries and Beer
November 1, 2013 - Martin Wooster In 1989, the Beer Orders told British brewers they could either keep their breweries or keep their pubs, and far too many breweries decided to preserve their pubs and close their breweries. As a result, such famous breweries as Young’s, Bass, and Morland have closed. In Britain’s Lost Breweries and Beers, Chris Arnot, a former... View Article -
Book Reviews - Full PintsMy Chouffe Story
March 1, 2013 - Martin Wooster The global craft brewing movement is now in its third decade, and it’s time for the founders of successful craft breweries to be working on their memoirs. While there have been many books about the history of American craft breweries, Chris Bauweraerts’ My Chouffe Story is the first autobiography of a Belgian craft brewer to... View Article -
Book Reviews - Full PintsThe Story of Brewing in Burton on Trent
May 1, 2012 - Martin Wooster Admirers of British beer know that Burton on Trent is one of England’s great brewing towns. Its breweries—Ind Coope, Bass, Worthington’s, Allsopp—developed India Pale Ale, Britain’s leading export beer in the 19th century. Burton breweries also developed Burton Ale, an ancestor of today’s barley wines. -
Book Reviews - Full Pints
Man Walks into a Pub: A Sociable History of Beer
May 1, 2005 - Martin Wooster Pete Brown is the first Gen X British writer to be published in the United States. His first book is a history of beer in Britain as well as a provocative analysis of the reasons why makers of good British beer are seeing their market share decline.