Beer Books for Beginners

If you interested in reading about beer history and beer culture in the general sense, I highly recommend Pete Brown's books. I have read and enjoyed them all.

http://www.amazon.com/Pete-Brown/e/B001PH3AN6/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1?qid=1452566123&sr=8-1

 

For me "The Joy of Home Brewing" by charlie papazian has done more for me than any other beer book

 

I second this...very informative and entertaining at the same time.

 

Vintage Beer by Patrick Dawson is one of my favorites. I bought it off Amazon about a year ago and I use it often when organizing and adding to my cellar.

 

The Beer Bible by Jeff Alworth

 

The Audacity of Hops: The History of America's Craft Beer Revolution.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Audacity-Hops-Americas-Revolution/dp/1613743882

Good book.

 

I recently finished The Great Beer Trek (Revised & Updated) by Stephen Morris. It's a somewhat humorous travelogue of his pub crawls around the US that is set in the late 70s or early 80s, so it predates the real craft movement. (There is also the first version of this book, but the revised edition is exactly the same book about the brewery/bar visit details as was written in the first book, it's just the lists of local breweries, good beer bars, etc. are updated in the revised book.)

But your question pops up on a regular basis. Here is a link to a thread that I found by doing a search of thread titles using 'reading' as my search word. You can try other words, or page back about 3 months which is about when I recall this topic last being active. http://www.beeradvocate.com/community/threads/what-beer-book-are-you-reading-right-now.61990/

 

One of my personal favorites (outside of home brewing books) ...

 

The Oxford Companion to Beer.

 

from another thread (removed the ones having to do with brewing)
The Perfect Keg (all over the place, but a really good read and lots of history thrown in)
Tasting Beer - Randy Mosher
I also think it would be beneficial to read some of the books from the Brewing Elements Series on Yeast, Malt and Hops. I just finished Chris Whites book on Yeast (Yeast: The Practical Guide to Beer Fermentation (Brewing Elements)) and found it very interesting

 

I read a great book called "A History of the World in Six Glasses." It covered not only beer, but wine, whiskey, tea, coffee, and cola, and how through history wars have been fought over them, how they were made and why, etc. Good reading.

 

Tasting Beer - Randy Mosher (see you already have this)
Radical Brewing - Randy Mosher (especially if you're a homebrewer)
The brewmasters table - Garrett Oliver
Beer school - Steve Hindy and Tom Potter (if you're interesting in the business side of things - by the Brooklyn brewery guys)
I also personally love reading about this history of beer/brewing, though I can't remember what specific books I have right now.

 

Yeast: The Practical Guide to Beer Fermentation by Chris White and Jamil Zainasheff. They have a whole series with hops, malt, and water that I need to get in to next.

 

Ambitious Brew by Ogle is a fun read.

 

The Brewmaster's Table is the best beer book out there. I still re-read sections of it regularly.

 

If you like comic books or graphic novels the Comic Book Story of Beer could be a fun. http://amzn.com/1607746352

 

Wife got me a copy for Christmas. Quite well done and reasonably accurate so far as I've been able to judge it.

 

It was on my Amazon wishlist and no one in my family bought it for me.

 

Love this book. Good call.