Product Description

The ideal drinking companion – an extensive directory of over 2,000 beers Beer, the drink to taste, savour, talk about and travel for. Explore its astonishing variety and rapidly expanding new tastes – thirst-quenching lagers, “meal-in-a-glass” stouts, peppery white beers, tangy fruit-based brews, and classic ales and bitters – with this up-to-date guide to every good beer in the world. Visit over 800 breweries and read detailed tasting notes for over 2,000 beers from a team of local specialists. Whet your appetite with tours to key beer-producing destinations. And discover the beers to try and how best to enjoy them, with brews that are anything but ‘a pint of the usual’.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #58964 in Books
• Published on: 2008-10-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 352 pages

Customer Reviews

Beer Monster
Excellent Book...Son loved it...and now is on a quest to taste test all!!
Clarity in pictures/information and comprehensive in history...If you love real ales...you will love getting to know more about them all (supplemented by the product of course)

Interesting book, good pics, poor editing
Overall this is an enjoyable book. It covers a lot of different beers with lots of pictures and features on a number of breweries and brewing themes.

However, there are a number of editing issues that are a bit irritating as you read through the book. A better edited book would probably rate 4 stars.

Some examples:
- Feature on glasses discusses a new glass specially developed for Sam Adams but the spread doesn't include a picture.
- Text on porter and stouts mentions breweries and beers than don't feature elsewhere.
- There's a lovely feature photograph of a Paulaner Weissbier, but the brewery doesn't appear in the text. (Indeed coverage of large breweries varies from country to country.)

Lastly, the index only lists the breweries and not the featured beers, making it hard to find favourite beers if you don't know the brewer.

Books on Amazon
The book is excellent. I have bought it for my partner's birthday. He loves it. Delivery was very fast. Product was brand new. I have gone through all beer related books on the current market to make sure that I will get the best of them - this was the winner!