Joe and Dennis Fisher
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Published September 2013, Volume 34, Number 4
Reviewed by Marty Nachel
Brewing Made Easy is a handy-dandy little guide to getting new brewers up and brewing quickly. By following this book’s easy-to-follow instructions, anyone can become a confident homebrewer in short order.
This is the second edition (the first edition dates to 1996). Both editions were written by Joe and Dennis Fisher. The brothers Fisher run an organic farm in Eastern Maine, and they also co-authored the popular The Homebrewer’s Garden: How to Easily Grow, Prepare, and Use Your Own Hops, Malts, Brewing Herbs (1998).
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Janet Fletcher
Reviewed by John Holl
Published July 2013, Volume 34, Number 3
The remarkable relationship between beer and cheese is extolled by those in the know, but can often be overlooked in the shadow of wine. Thank goodness Janet Fletcher has arrived with her latest book Cheese & Beer to set things straight. Beautifully photographed and wonderfully written, the book takes you on a well-researched and mouthwatering tour of how the two interact on the palate, no matter the style of each.
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Pete Brown
Reviewed by Julie Johnson
Published July 2013, Volume 34, Number 3
The George Inn sits south of the River Thames near the foot of London Bridge. Its district, Southwark (for us Americans, ignore most of the letters and pronounce it “SUH-thk”), is now a part of London. But for most of its long history, it existed outside the gates, a bastion against invaders and the repository for all the commerce, vice and dissension Londoners wanted close at hand but not too close.
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Tom Acitelli
Reviewed by Maureen Ogle
Published May 2013, Volume 34, Number 2
After I published my history of beer in America, the three questions readers asked me (over and over and over) were: “What’s your favorite beer?” “Why didn’t you spend more time on craft beer?” and “Are you going to write a history of craft beer?”
Thanks to Tom Acitelli, I can scratch number three off that list. He’s done the job and with verve, common sense and the requisite butt-in-the-chair hard work. (That last cannot be underestimated. Here’s an insider secret about books: Each one represents thousands upon thousands upon thousands of hours of work on the part of the author.)
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Dave Miller
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Published May 2013, Volume 34, Number 2
Reviewed by Marty Nachel
Ask those who started brewing their own beer at home back in the early ’90s who their go-to source of technical information was, and it’s likely they’ll point to Dave Miller. It was Dave Miller’s Homebrewing Guide that went on to become one of the most influential books on homebrewing ever published.
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Tim Webb and Stephen Beaumont
Reviewed by Daniel Bradford
Published March 2013, Volume 34, Number 1
Unlike Michael Jackson’s legendary World Guide to Beer, which painted a portrait of beer at its lowest ebb, Tim Webb and Stephen Beaumont’s new World Atlas of Beer tours the vibrant global craft beer culture as it is today. Whereas the Guide called attention to the vanishing classic beer styles, the Atlas gathers together the raucous world of the emerging and expanding beer culture revolution.
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