What beer books have you read?

Here is all the ones I got on paperback. All read cover to cover. I always thought How to Brew was better than Complete Joy Of Homebrewing. More advanced levels. I also reference Designing Great beers a lot when I make new recipes. Tasting beer has made me the reviewer I am today as well. Even though I read it 4 years after I started reviewing.

 

I have fifteen books on beer. The most significant among those would be: The Beer Bible, Tasting Beer, 1001 Beers You Must Try Before You Die, For The Love Of Hops and The Oxford Companion To Beer edited by Garrett Oliver.

 

I get a lot of library books on my Kindle, and I enjoyed Huckelbridge's "United States of Beer," which is the history of brewing in the US, and Burningham's "My Beer Year" which is part anecdotes and part non-fiction as the author studies to be a cicerone. Also Behr's "Prohibition," which isn't specifically beer-centric, but nonetheless fascinating.

 

I've read quite a few beer books, some mentioned above. I found this book very informative. Still one of my favorite beer books.

https://www.amazon.com/Vintage-Beer-Tasters-Guide-Improve/dp/161212156X

 

After you read it you might just want to start homebrewing.

How To Brew is available online if you want to get started. It's only the first edition, but it gives enough of the brewing process so that any beer lover should read it to attain a more in-depth knowledge about how beer is made. HowToBrew.com

 

One of these, I guess...

 

If you want beer history, try Ron Pattinson, Martyn Cornel, and Pete Brown.

There are many homebrew and technical books out there. Someday I will buy Der Kunze, as it is known to brewers, University level text.

https://www.vlb-berlin.org/en/publi...ng & Malting' –,edition was published in 1961.


You can find many here.
https://www.brewerspublications.com...MJStJIg_X9BOn5Lmen7uxRm7TlTaOY7EaAgZJEALw_wcB

 

I was going to take a pic of my beer book collection instead of writing out the titles of all of them, but my collection is puny compared to yours.

 

My nephew got this for me while I was recovering from surgery last November...very well done, very current, and enjoyable read.

 

I have quite a few beer books and I would recommend the previous ones mentioned as well. Radical Brewing is great even if you aren't a homebrewer.

One book that I really enjoy is CAMRA's Good Beer Guide Belgium. The quality of the pages and the full-color photos are excellent, but reading through the book...it's like taking a tour of Belgium. The book has all kinds of info on where to buy beer to take home with you, places to eat that have good beer, descriptions of the breweries, etc. Even if you aren't planning a trip to Belgium it's worth owning.

 

I only one one, Michael Jackson's Great Beer Guide, but plan on getting more library books now that they have reopened.

It's a bit old, and the newer styles are not covered, but a great resource for someone like me who is relatively new to craft (signed up here and RateBeer in 2015). Most of the beers are still around.

Many great suggestions offered so far I'd like to explore soon.

 

The Ginger Man springs to my mind as does McCarthy's Bar. These two aren't exactly beer books, but they both rate up there in my mind with Black Elk Speaks and other greats too numerous to ponder. But drinking is the theme and Irish is the meme. If you want a vacation from this dismal world, give these books a whirl. Cheers all...