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Ten top books on beer
Ultimate BeerUltimate Beer by Michael Jackson
Buy new: £17.56 / Used from: £4.80
The best all-round guide to the beer styles of the world and the leading examples of those styles, from the Master
Beer - The Story of the Pint: The History of Britain's Most Popular DrinkBeer - The Story of the Pint: The History of Britain's Most Popular Drink by Martyn Cornell
Buy used from: £11.50
Makes all other books on the history of beer redundant - far better researched than most efforts on the subject

Britain's other great beer writer leads you by the hand through the cellar and the bar top
The Brewmaster's TableThe Brewmaster's Table by Garrett Oliver
Buy used from: £18.32
What to drink when you're eating, by one of America's best brewers
Country House Brewing in England, 1500-1900Country House Brewing in England, 1500-1900 by Pamela Sambrook
Buy new: £23.10 / Used from: £14.95
What the nobility brewed and how they brewed it
Sacred and Herbal Healing Beers: The Secrets of Ancient FermentationSacred and Herbal Healing Beers: The Secrets of Ancient Fermentation by Stephen Harrod Buhner
Buy new: £8.78 / Used from: £16.70
A scholarly exploration of the wild and wacky end of the beery spectrum
Beer Glorious BeerBeer Glorious Beer
Buy new: £6.56 / Used from: £0.95
Awful cover, but a readable collection of essays on a wide variety of beery topics
Brewing (RSC Paperbacks)Brewing (RSC Paperbacks) by I. Hornsey
Buy new: £21.00 / Used from: £13.24
A little dry, but the best book on the actual science of brewing
Camra Guide to Home BrewingCamra Guide to Home Brewing by Graham Wheeler
Buy used from: £110.30
If you're tempted to start brewing your own, begin with this one ...
The Historical Companion to House BrewingThe Historical Companion to House Brewing by Clive La Pensee
... and move on up to this one