The juxtaposition is ironic: a book on the millennia-old story of British beer styles, illustrated with vintage art and labels,
Brewing historians faced with trawling through page after page of ancient journals now have a short cut in the form
In every culture, there are touchstones that serve as access points into the history, morality, economics and the everyday life
The current work is an expanded version of the author’s 1999 book The History of Beer and Brewing in Chicago,
A few years back, everybody and his brother were brewing up red ales and naming them after some furry woodland