Product Description

If you thought real ale was only available on draught in a pub, think again!

The Campaign for Real Ale's acclaimed Good Bottled Beer Guide places the spotlight on nearly 800 British bottle-conditioned beers, celebrating and cataloguing the UK's ongoing bottled beer revival.It is a pocket companion to the CAMRA's best-selling Good Beer Guide.

Bottle-conditioned beer is real ale in a bottle. Just like draught beer that has been allowed to mature naturally in the cask at the pub, it has a full, fresh taste, without the un-natural fizz of artificial carbonation or the dead hand of pasteurization.

The phenomenal growth in the bottle-conditioned beer market - in supermarkets, in beer shops and via the internet - is continuing at an exciting pace.

This handy pocket guide, now in its sixth edition, is fully revised and updated to guide you through the process of choosing, tasting and enjoying the right beer for the right occasion. Beer that ferments naturally in the bottle has a complex, fresher taste, just like draught ale that has been allowed to mature in the cask at the pub. This award-winning book is the perfect companion for every armchair beer lover.

Unique features include:

Tasting notes and the story behind each beer

New rosette rating system for outstanding bottled beer breweries

New star award for beers of special merit

Information on how to keep and serve real ale in a bottle

Details of All UK breweries known to produce real ale in a bottle

Expanded foreign beer section.

Includes details of bitters, lagers, milds, wheat beers, stouts, porters, fruit beers and barley wines

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #106064 in Books
• Published on: 2006-08-03
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 256 pages

Synopsis
"The Good Bottled Beer Guide" is 'little brother', to "CAMRA's Original Beer Bible" - where "The Good Beer Guide" covers draught real ale, "The Good Bottled Beer Guide" focuses on bottled real ale. It provides everything you need to know about bottled beer, tasting notes, ingredients and brewery details whether you are a casual beer shopper or the dedicated beer buff. It contains major listing of specialist beer shops, supermarkets and mail order companies offering hundreds of bottled real ales.

Customer Reviews

The best just got better...
If I had one criticism of the last couple of editions of this otherwise excellent book it was that it was not possible to tell the good beers from the not so good. Now you get everything you got in previous editions plus a rating system.

Jeff Evans is obviously a man who really loves his bottled beers and what he doesn't know doesn't seem to be worth knowing on this particular subject.

I would definitely recommend this as a stocking filler for Christmas although you'll obviously need your own copy to work out what you should be buying to drink at Christmas in the first place.

Cheers!