Beer books lending library

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Morning folks,

I was thinking that as part of pooling resources I'd start the ball rolling.

I have a few books if anyone wants to borrow and have a read (they're mainly on beer styles/history and beer travel/adventures).

Does anyone have Randy Moshers Radical Brewing they could lend for a short while?

Anyway the list:

MAN WALKS INTO A PUB, Pete Brown

In MAN WALKS INTO A PUB, Pete Brown takes us on a well-lubricated pub-crawl through the amazing story of beer, from the first sacred sip of ancient Egyptian bouza to the last pint of lager on a Friday night.

Book Description
It's an extraordinary tale of yeast-obsessed monks and teetotal prime ministers; of how pale ale fuelled an Empire and weak bitter won a world war; of exploding breweries, a bear in a yellow nylon jacket and a Canadian bloke who changed the dringking habits of a nation. It's also the story of the rise of the pub from humble origins through an epic, thousand-year struggle to survive misunderstanding, bad government and misguided commerce. The history of beer in Britain is a social history of the nation itself, full of catastrophe, heroism and an awful lot of hangovers. 'a pleasant antidote to more po-faced histories of beer' Guardian. 'Like a good drinking companion, Brown tells a remarkable story: a stream of fascinating facts, etymologies and pub-related urban phenomena' TLS 'Packed with bar-room bet-winning facts and entertaining digressions, this is a book into which every pub-goer will want to dip.' Express

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Hops and Glory: One man's search for the beer that built the British Empire: the original IPA, Pete Brown

Book Description
The original India Pale Ale was pure gold in a glass; a semi-mythical beer specially invented, in the 19th century, to travel halfway around the world, through storms and tropical sunshine, and arrive in perfect condition for a long, cold drink on an Indian verandah. But although you can still buy beers with 'IPA' on the label they are, to be frank, a pale imitation of the original. For the first time in 140 years, a keg of Burton IPA has been brewed with the original recipe for a voyage to India by canal and tall ship, around the Cape of Good Hope; and the man carrying it is the award-winning Pete Brown, Britain's best beer write.

Brazilian pirates and Iranian customs officials lie ahead, but will he even make it that far, have fallen in the canal just a few miles out of Burton? And if Pete does make it to the other side of the world with 'Barry' the barrel, one question remains: what will the real IPA taste like? Weaving first-class travel writing with assured comedy, Hops and Glory is both a rollicking, raucous history of the Raj and a wonderfully entertaining, groundbreaking experiment to recreate the finest beer ever produced.

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Three Sheets To The Wind: One Man's Quest For The Meaning Of Beer, Pete Brown

Book Description
If we're living in the global village, where's it's pub? Meet Pete Brown: beer journalist, beer drinker and author of an irreverent book about British beer, Man Walks Into A Pub. One day, Peter's world is rocked when he discovers there are several countries that produce, consume and celebrate beer far more than we do.

The Germans claim they make the best beer in the world, the Australians consider its consumption a patriotic duty, the Spanish regard lager as a new trendy youth drink and the Japanese have built a skyscraper in the shape of a foaming glass of their favourite brew. At home, meanwhile, people seem to be turning their back on the pleasures of the great British pint. What's going on? Obviously, the only way to find out was to go on the biggest pub crawl ever. Drinking in more than three hundred bars in twenty-seven towns in thirteen different countries on four different continents, Pete puts on a stone in weight and does irrecoverable damage to his health in the pursuit of saloon bar enlightenment. Attitudes to beer and its drinking provide unique insight into the off-duty, celebratory soul of nations. In the course of his quest, Pete meets a wild cast of bleary eyed eccentrics and samples legendary brews in legendary establishments from Sydney to Munich to Barnsley. Three Sheets To The Wind is a joyous, hilarious life changing adventure to the heart to beer.

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The Complete Guide to World Beer: From Abbaye des Rocs to Zatec, Roger Protz

This book covers every facet of the world's favourite alcoholic drink , from the fruit beers of Belgium to the revivalist porters and stouts of Britain and the United States and the "designer" beers of Mexico and Japan.

The Complete Guide to World Beer includes "The Art and Science of Beer Making", a "World A-Z of Beer", an analysis of the beer business, chapters on the culture and history of beer and more. There are recipes, supplied in many cases by beer experts, for dishes to be made with beer and eaten while drinking beer. A brief history of pub signs is supplied (under Cromwell, many pubs were named "God Encompasses Us", but the signs were sabotaged to read "The Goat and Compasses"), together with accounts of such adjuncts to beer as the game of darts, which Protz touchingly describes as "a remarkable game that can be played with great skill or by people with none at all". Protz's account of the production process is all the more readable for being slightly elliptical. A new term comes up, and you think, "No, he's lost me now", only to find that you're rewarded with an explanation in the next sentence. And so you are tugged along through this most amiable of chemistry lessons, entertained on the way by the Blackadder-ish terms that still litter brewing: "grist", "wort", "sparge", "underback".

The A-Z is relentlessly illuminating. All the breweries in Iran closed when the ayatollahs came to power; skull-splitting Carlsberg Special Brew was first made to commemorate a visit by Winston Churchill to Copenhagen. A "Gazetteer of Pubs, Bars and Taverns" is to be read in conjunction with the A-Z: you can visit the Falstaff in Brussels, but don't go between 5am and 7am because that's when it closes. At Munich's Mathäser Bierstadt you can conduct an oompah band before proceeding to the vomitorium.

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Michael Jackson's Beer Companion: Lagers, Ales, Wheat Beers, Stouts, Fruit Beers, Porters, Steam Beers,  Michael Jackson

This comprehensive beer companion focuses on the world's classic beer styles. It also explores beer's tradition and production, and beer and food, including recipes and ideas for menu planning. A glossary of beer terms and a gazetteer detailing where the great beers may be enjoyed are included.

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300 Beers to Try Before You Die!, Roger Protz

Book Description
From Belgian fruit beers to hoppy cask ales, small-production microbrews to Czech Republic lagers, this is a personal and comprehensive portfolio of international beers compiled by one of the world's leading beer writers. In this unique and beautifully illustrated collection, he has distilled decades of beer knowledge into an entertaining and indispensable guide to the ales that no beer lover should miss. The book divides beers by type, including bitters, best bitters, pilsners, brown and mild ales, pale ales, extra strong beers and bitters, old ales and barley wines, golden ales, porters and stouts, alt and amber ales, fruit beers, and beires de garde, each comprising an alphabetical listing of the beers. Many of the entries are fully illustrated, and each beer comes complete with a box panel for adding your own tasting notes. Information on the country of origin, beer strength, brewery, and a detailed description of the beer and its history are also given.

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Brew Your Own British Real Ale (Camra) 3rd Edition, Graham Wheeler

Book Description
The perennial favourite of home brewers, "Brew Your Own British Real Ale" is a CAMRA classic. This new edition is re-written, enhanced and updated with new recipes for contemporary and award-winning beers, as well as recipes for old favourites no longer brewed commercially.Written by home brewing authority Graham Wheeler, "Brew Your Own British Real Ale" includes detailed brewing instructions for both novice and more advanced home-brewers, as well as comprehensive recipes for recreating some of Britain's best-loved beers at home.

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Ok I have:

Radical Brewing - Randy Mosher (you can grab this on saturday)
Yeast - White & Zainasheff
Tasting Beer - Randy Mosher
Clone Brews - Tess & Mark Szamatulski
Designing Great Beers - Ray Daniels
How to Brew - Palmer
Brewing up a business - Sam Calagione
The Microbrewers handbook - Ted Bruning
Brew like a Monk - Stan Hieronymus

And a few other odds and sods