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Great books like great beer never go out of style. And with the holiday shopping season now ON, we’ve been regularly showcasing some of the year’s best craft best books. And to be honest, one of them is about spirits (which we seldom cover) it’s just too good to pass on.
Beeronomics: How Beer Explains the World
by Johan Swinnen and Devin Briski
Described aptly as the world’s history as seen through ‘beer goggles’, Beeronomics is an exhaustive yet always entertaining look at the role that beer has played in the development of many civilizations.
From prompting the transition from hunter to gatherer, to the agrarian lifestyle in ancient Mesopotamia beer has been an important factor…
Beer bankrolled Britain’s imperialist conquests, and helped build the country’s earliest strategic taxation policies.
Beer funded England’s Royal Navy and both paid for and fueled the British army’s losing effort to maintain control in colonial America.
Beeronomics maps beer’s impact and history from the export dominance of Hamburg and Bremen in the sixteenth century, to the rise of TV advertising which paved the way for multinational brewing giants like Anheuser-Busch InBev, who control the vast majority of the world’s beer sales today.
If you care about beer and its impact on our world, Beeronomics is a smart and entertaining primer on the subject, that deserves its place in any beer lover’s library.
Brewing Local: American-Grown Beer by Stan Hieronymus
Stan Hieronymus is kind of a legend in the beer community and his latest opus on “American-grown beer” will change your walk in the woods forever.
Part of the Brewers Publications’ growing stable of great craft beer books, Brewing Local is both an historical examination of the native ingredients that influence the beers that we drink today and an invaluable resource for those of us who brew.
The ultimate field guide, Brewing Local is smart, entertaining and most importantly usable. You’ll learn how to forage in your local woodlands for the plants, trees and roots that can be realistically used to brew beer at home.
With its fine forward written by Dogfish Head’s Sam Calagione, Brewing Local is a passionate treatise on the importance of localism in brewing, and an invaluable guide to modern brewing using foraged flora.
The Drinkable Globe: The Indispensable Guide to the Wide World of Booze by Jeff Cioletti
Jeff Cioletti is a true renaissance man in the drinks business. In addition to having written one of our favorite beer books, he’s served as editor-at-large for Beverage World magazine, created the Drinkable World website, and is the host of the Drinkable World web series.
And you can add his latest book The Drinkable Globe to the award-wining author’s list of creative accomplishments.
The Drinkable Globe is both a drinker’s guide to travel and a traveler’s examination of what to drink in far-flung and exotic places. Starting at the international dateline and moving west, the author explores the drinks of the regions, their history and why they matter.
And because he’s Cioletti, he also includes dozens of cocktail recipes from renowned international artisans for you to enjoy at home (when you’re not on the road).
Check out BEST CRAFT BEER BOOKS (Part I) for more holiday gift ideas.
