Maximiliano Bahnson
Reviewed by Rick Lyke
Published September 2012, Volume 33, Number 4
Prague is a paradise for lager lovers. It can also be a daunting Old World city with hard-to-pronounce pub names and with even harder-to-pronounce winding narrow streets. Thankfully, Max Bahnson, a language teacher and beer enthusiast, has put together a 117-page guide that makes sense out of words that, even after just one pilsner, have way too many consonants in a row.
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Gary Monterosso
Reviewed by Win Bassett
Published September 2012, Volume 33, Number 4
Gary Monterosso throws around a lot of terms for the same subject of his latest book. He discusses “microbrews,” “these ‘new’ beers,” “craft beer” and “boutique beer,” and he ultimately settles on “Artisan Beer,” a phrase rarely found in the vocabulary of today’s beverage world, for the title of his new guide. But the term fits the approach that Monterosso takes to distinguish his book from the thousands on each side of it on the beer shelf. Like the artisan brewers who “opted to create their own take on how beer should taste,” he teaches the reader not about drinking beer, but rather about how to savor it for the utmost beer experience.
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Roger Protz
Reviewed by Martin Wooster
Published May 2012, Volume 33, Number 2
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.
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Greg Koch and Steve Wagner with Randy Clemens
Reviewed by Brian Yaeger
Published May 2012, Volume 33, Number 2
In the same vein as Sam Calagione’s self-love fest, Brewing Up a Business, which is a must-read for Dogfish devotees (ditto Jeremy Cowan’s Craft Beer Bar Mitzvah for Shmaltz Brewing enthusiasts), all arrogant bastards will pick this up if they haven’t attended one of Greg Koch’s readings and bought a signed copy already. The third co-author, Randy Clemens, is the company’s public relations coordinator, a role he landed as part of co-authoring the book.
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Edited by Garrett Oliver
Reviewed by Daniel Bradford
Published March 2012, Volume 33, Number 1
Rarely has a publication produced such an out-pouring of excitement, praise, analysis, criticisms—and, even—condemnation. To say this giant of a book is controversial could be the understatement of the year.
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Joshua M. Bernstein
Reviewed by Win Bassett
Published March 2012, Volume 33, Number 1
From the previously mysterious Delta hop’s introduction to the United States to the top five beers to try from the small but growing world of female brewers, Josh Bernstein has tackled the daunting task of providing a light, yet comprehensive overview of the craft beer community in just over 300 pages of easy reading.
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