Author: Martin Morse Wooster
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Book Reviews - Full PintsCheers! An Intemperate History of Beer in Canada
September 1, 2010 - Martin Morse Wooster You’ll know when you see the deliberately blurry illustration of a Mountie on the cover and the publisher’s classification of Cheers! as “humour,” that this is a quirky beer book: part history, part travelogue and part rant. Cheers! is a lively, funny and very well-written look at the Canadian brewing scene. -
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Shine On: 100 Years of History, Legends, Half-Truths, and Tall Tales About Texas’ Most-Beloved Little Brewery
May 1, 2009 - Martin Morse Wooster In 1909 German immigrant Kosmos Spoetzl was hired by a small brewery in Shiner, TX to be head brewer. Five years later, Spoetzl bought the brewery and renamed it Spoetzl Brewing. The brewery survived Prohibition, lack of capital and the bad beer years of the late 1970s and early 1980s to become Texas’s only surviving... View Article -
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Mixologist: The Journal of the American Cocktail
May 1, 2007 - Martin Morse Wooster In recent years, a group of cocktail lovers have started studying the history and traditions of their favorite drinks. Their goal is to make cocktails beverages that are made from the best ingredients, prepared by experts who have spent years honing their craft, and served in bars that are well-designed and elegantly constructed. Many of... View Article -
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Tartans and Tankards: Exploring the Craft Breweries of Scotland
January 1, 2006 - Martin Morse Wooster You may have tried some beers from Scotland over the years—the powerfully malty Dark Island from the Orkney Brewery, or the unique range of beers from Heather Ales. Like most beer lovers, after trying these beers, you’re curious about where the beers come from and why they are what they are. What, after all, makes... View Article -
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Scotland’s Sobering Stats
January 1, 2006 - Martin Morse Wooster Numbers can be suprising, as in the case of Scotland. Contrary to popular images, the descendants of blue-bottomed Braveheart aren’t any wilder in their drinking habits than their southern neighbors. In fact, in some repsects, the Scottish are considerably more conservative with their beer drinking, as well as their brand preferences. -
Book Reviews - Full PintsJolly Good Ale and Old: Coopers Brewery, 1862-1998
July 1, 2000 - Martin Morse Wooster Jolly Good Ale and Old is the official history of Coopers Brewery, originally published by Wooster/Aussie beer books in 1987 for the brewery’s 125th anniversary and then reissued with an additional chapter on the 1990s. It’s a better-than-average company history because Painter is a good writer who gives a lot of the history of south... View Article -
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Bell’s Hotel
July 1, 2000 - Martin Morse Wooster Bill Bell, owner of Bell’s Hotel, Melbourne’s only brewpub, inherited the place from his parents, who purchased the pub in 1933. He vividly remembers the bad old days of Australian drinking—when pubs (until the early 1960s) were forced to close at 6:00 p.m. and customers would chug four or five pints before being required to... View Article -
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Lord Nelson Brewery Hotel
July 1, 2000 - Martin Morse Wooster Blair Hayden, managing director of Sydney’s Lord Nelson Brewery Hotel, can talk elegantly on all sorts of topics, but what gets him fired up is if you ask him whether or not he’s running Sydney’s oldest pub. At least two other pubs—the Fortune of War and the Hero of Waterloo—have licenses that predate the Lord... View Article