Favorite Beer Book?

Brewmasters Table by Gerrit Oliver

 

what he said

 

Tasting Beer by Randy Mosher

 

Correction of spelling error while using mobile device: "Gerrett Oliver"
(With apologies to the author.)

 

How to Brew by John Palmer.

 

My parents gave me an Anheuser Busch cookbook a few years ago. While I was initially dubious, the recipes are actually great. I simply ignore their pairing recommendations and drink good beer instead.

 

"The Complete Beer Course" is sitting in my Amazon cart waiting for my next gift to myself (or perhaps wish list it for the holidays).

Favorites to date:

1) General beer knowledge and of course the obvious for homebrewing


2) Not limited to just-beer, but interesting read nontheless on the various histories of alcoholic beverages:

 

For entertaining and educational reading, Brewmaster's Table.

For straight wealth of information and massive educational value: Oxford Companion.

 

I've got a nice book called Britain's Lost Breweries and Beers by Chris Arnot

 

Is the Oxford Companion worth having in hardback? (not that the Kindle price is significantly cheaper)

 

Garrett

 

Interesting collection of errors on my part...

Turns out the errors stem from the fact I know someone in the Netherlands for many years now who is in fact "Gerrit." So force of habit took over...

 

The Complete Joy of Homebrewing (Charlie Papazian), guided me through my first few years of homebrewing, and made me aware of many different styles of microbrews

 

Beware, the OC has some well recorded shortcomings particularly the section on Scottish beers and Old Ales. Heres a link to patto1ro's blog on these matters.
www.barclayperkins.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/horst-again.html
He also has written a whole raft of beer books himself, meticulously if not obsessively well researched , you'll find them on the same page.

 

A Perfect Pint's Beer Guide to the Heartland by Michael Agnew, a Father's Day present from the kids.


Of course, since it came out this year it is now out of date....

 

The Lord of the Rings is not a beer book, but i would love to taste Barliman´s Best Ale at the Prancing Pony Inn, in Bree (Middle Earth).

 

Per this thread, I picked this one up from Amazon a week back and finally started to read it. Very enjoyable thus far. Thanks for suggesting this, OP!

 

http://www.howtobrew.com/

 

Michael Jackson's 1978 The World Guide To Beer. Even the parts obviously out of date can be adjusted easily, for example the real ales of Britain and all-malt lagers of Germany are basically what implanted in the States in the next 35 years except using American-grown hops which had their own taste. But in substance it's all very apt today and works very well as gastronomic literature. It has never been exceeded even by Jackson himself (deceased 2007).