There’s a good reason that an odd number of judges sit at “best of show” tables in beer competitions—that way there are no ties. When two, rather than one or three, authors set out to identify the best beers in a country known for uncompromising beers, compromising choices might result. Tim Webb and Joris Pattyn... View Article
500 Beers By Zak Avery Sellers Publishing, Hard cover, $16.95, 288 pp 1001 Beers You Must Taste Before You Die Edited by Adrian Tierney-Jones Universe, Hard cover, $36.95, 960 pp World’s Best Beers: One Thousand Craft Brews from Cask to Glass By Ben McFarland Sterling Innovation, Hard cover, $29.95, 290 pp The Beer Trials By... View Article
You’ll know when you see the deliberately blurry illustration of a Mountie on the cover and the publisher’s classification of Cheers! as “humour,” that this is a quirky beer book: part history, part travelogue and part rant. Cheers! is a lively, funny and very well-written look at the Canadian brewing scene.
The interest in craft beer has never been greater, and along with that has come a keen curiosity and awareness of everything surrounding beer, including the craft itself and those who practice it. No one brings that into focus better than Stan Hieronymus, one of the best beer journalists of today. His newest book, Brewing... View Article
Just as the grassroots brewpub concept began almost 30 years ago, the past few yearshave seen the microdistilling movement starting to gather steam. At the forefront of both was Bill Owens, founder of the pioneering Buffalo Bill’s Brewery in Hayward, CA, in 1983.
I hesitate to call Jeff Evans a veteran beer writer for fear he points a bony finger at the date on my birth certificate. But Jeff has been around the beer scene since the early 1990s and earned his spurs as a distinguished editor of the annual Good Beer Guide.
The World Beer Guide was first published in 1995 under the title of The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Beer (there were a lot of “ultimates” doing the rounds at the time). It was a splendid book, big and glossy, packed with smart photographs of beers and breweries. Wrapped around the pictures was Roger Protz’s authoritative text.... View Article
Beer 101 classes are nothing new. Geared toward novice craft beer drinkers and even non-fans, such classes are held in pubs, breweries, bottle shops and tap houses across the country. Realbeer.com even featured an online version several years ago. Some are one-time events; others are regular events that cover different aspects of craft beer each... View Article
Ostensibly, this book reads more like a desktop page-a-day calendar that suggests a different beer to help get you through each day. But there is rhyme to author Jeff Evans’s reason, as well as some wordy heft.
