Product Description

An indispensable beer-lover's handbook provides a host of beer facts, trivia, homebrew recipes, and cooking and entertaining tips, along with a definitive guide to domestic and imported beers, microbreweries, distinctive bars and pubs, and more.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1839356 in Books
• Published on: 1997-03-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 224 pages

From Booklist
Harper and Oliver's beer book is twice good: it is about good--flavorful, zesty, attractive--beer, and it is a good--amusing, informative, lively--book. It covers beer history, how and of what beer is made, the major styles of lagers and ales, the rebirth of American craft brewing, the rise of brewpubs, big brewers' response to craft brewing, and proper beer handling and tasting, and it provides advice on beer and food, annotated lists of outstanding American and European breweries, a little gazetteer of brewpubs and beer bars, some home brew recipes, online and periodical resource lists, and a glossary. Other books are more comprehensive on one or another, even several, of these matters (e.g., there are book-length beer gazetteers), but none treats them all so well at so reasonable a price. Skoal! Ray Olson

Customer Reviews

The Good Beer Book
You want a beer book? This is the ONE. This book made me want to drink beer while reading every other book Harper has written! Things I never knew about the subject told in a clever, insightful and always interesting style. I was never a beer lover until I read this - the author opend up a whole new world of drinking pleasure by introducing me to a wide range of really good, and really different brews. This ain't Schlitz! My husband and I are on a mission to check out all the great drinking places he recommends - so far, Harper's right on the money.