The Craft Brewers’ Compendium: An Omnibus of Brewing Materials By Ted Bruning and Don Burgess $18.99, Posthouse Publishing Does the world need another encyclopedic approach to beer? Ted Bruning and Don Burgess thought so. The two have undertaken the Herculean task of cataloging as many varieties of malt, hops and yeast as they could find.... View Article
The Wildcrafting Brewer: Creating Unique Drinks and Boozy Concoctions from Nature’s Ingredients By Pascal Baudar $29.95, Chelsea Green Publishing There’s been a resurgence of interest lately in foraged or place-based beers, as evident by a number of new books on the subject. This latest is less about beer—especially as most know it—and brewing here loosely... View Article
Best Beers: The Indispensable Guide to the World’s Best Craft & Traditional Beers By Stephen Beaumont and Tim Webb $14.99, Mitchell Beazley While Stephen Beaumont and Tim Webb are two accomplished beer writers, there are—believe it or not—beers they have yet to consume, breweries they have yet to visit (in the introduction, they estimate that... View Article
The Scratch and Sniff Guide to Beer: A Beer Lover’s Companion By Justin Kennedy $22, Harper Design Given how critical the sense of smell is to enjoying beer, it’s surprising it took this long for such a book to hit the market. But it’s here, complete with scratch-and-sniff stickers for everything from the obvious (hops)... View Article
Miracle Brew By Pete Brown $19.95, Chelsea Green Publishing There is no shortage of books on beer or its four primary ingredients. So what sets Pete Brown’s latest work apart? Pete Brown does. In his latest book, Brown draws upon his experience travelling the world to share the magic of hops, barley, water and yeast,... View Article
Project Extreme Brewing: An Enthusiast’s Guide to Extreme Brewing at Home By Sam Calagione and Jason and Todd Alström $24.99, Quarry Books Who better to pen a book on extreme brewing than Dogfish Head’s Sam Calagione and BeerAdvocate’s Alström brothers? The former has brewed beers of the extreme variety at Dogfish Head since opening in... View Article
The Little Book of Craft Beer By Melissa Cole $14.99, Hardie Grant Books “This is not a book for beer nerds.” Melissa Cole wastes no time getting that out of the way in the introduction of this new book. That clear, she proceeds—in a very casual and conversational tone—to walk the reader through the basics... View Article
IPA: A Legend in Our Time By Roger Protz $24.95, Pavilion Books Roger Protz, editor of CAMRA’s Good Beer Guide and a regular contributor to this magazine, has undertaken quite a task. From the birth of the style through to its “great revival,” Protz has chronicled the storied history of the India pale ale. The... View Article
Against All Hops: Techniques and Philosophy for Creating Extraordinary Botanical Beers By Butch Heilshorn $18.99, Page Street Publishing Co. While brewers and drinkers alike in New England obsess over hops, Butch Heilshorn has a different passion. At Earth Eagle Brewings in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, he is one of the country’s preeminent brewers of gruit, a... View Article
