Beer is for Everyone! Of Drinking Age By Em Sauter $18.95, One Peace Books To prove that beer is for everyone, Em Sauter—in cartoon form—takes you on a journey from beer’s beginnings thousands of years ago to today’s exciting beer scene. In the same fun and quirky style she exhibits at her website Pints and... View Article
Session Beers: Brewing for Flavor and Balance By Jennifer Talley $19.95, Brewers Publications Jennifer Talley spent nearly two decades brewing in a state that caps draft beer production at 4% ABV. Yet rather than being limited at Squatters Pub Brewery in Salt Lake City, Utah, Talley instead learned to perfect lower-alcohol beers in a variety... View Article
33 Brews By Dave Selden $7, 33 Books Co. Portland-based 33 Books Co., makers of pocket-sized tasting journals for a wide variety of foods and beverages (including beer), has added a brewing log to its portfolio. At 5-by-7 inches, 33 Brews is larger than its predecessors, but the increased page size affords space for the... View Article
Tasting Cider: The CIDERCRAFT® Guide to the Distinctive Flavors of North American Hard Cider By Erin James $19.95, Storey Publishing This new release is a breezy read that serves its titled goal: going lighter on the history and stylistic details in favor of cider cocktails and recipes, immersive photography and cidery profiles. The net effect... View Article
Ancient Brews: Rediscovered and Re-created By Patrick E. McGovern $26.95, W.W. Norton & Co. Imagine a glass with only a thin film of beer remaining. Think you could re-create it? For a homebrewer with an exceptional palate, it may be possible. But now imagine starting with a completely empty bronze drinking vessel that was buried... View Article
Lonely Planet’s Global Beer Tour: A Guide to Beer Tasting at the World’s Best Breweries $19.99, Lonely Planet One of the problems with printing a guide book in this day and age (and this comes from the author of two such projects) is that by the time it gets to the public, the world has... View Article
150 Years of Canadian Beer Labels By Lawrence C. Sherk $29.95, TouchWood Editions A coffee-table-worthy picture book that contains the collection of a serious breweriana collector. It starts in the late 1870s with two labels—mild and strong—from the William Dow and Co. brewery in Montreal. Largely text-heavy and simple in design, it does feature crossed... View Article
Brew Your Own Big Book of Homebrewing By Brew Your Own Magazine $21.99, Voyageur Press By the time this book gets to the actual recipes, you’ve already read more than 140 comprehensive pages that lay a solid foundation for how to make beer. From the pages and people behind the country’s foremost homebrewing magazine comes... View Article
Craft Obsession: The Social Rhetorics of Beer By Jeff Rice $40, Southern Illinois University Press The digital space has become the global tavern where people of all stripes can gather and talk about issues important to them. In the case of this book by the Martha B. Reynolds Professor and chair of department of writing,... View Article
