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In Man Walks into a Pub, Pete Brown takes us on a journey through the amazing history of beer, from the first sacred sip of ancient Egyptian bouza to the last pint of lager on a Friday night. It’s an extraordinary tale of yeast-obsessed monks and teetotaling prime ministers; of exploding breweries, a bear in a yellow nylon jacket, and a Canadian who changed the drinking habits of a nation. It’s also the story of the rise of the British pub, from humble origins through an epic, thousand-year struggle to survive bad government and misguided commerce.

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If you’re looking for another stodgy, holier-than-thou “connoisseur’s” book, you’ve come to the wrong place. The Big Book o’ Beer celebrates the wide world of beer in all its shameless glory — from the highbrow to the Lowenbrau, from trendy Belgian microbrews to the famous “old man bars” of Las Vegas. It’s packed with amazing photographs and fascinating beer-related information about history, geography, science, arts, crafts, and more. Want to tour the ten biggest breweries on the planet? Interested in making dazzling arts and crafts from old beer cans? Need a recipe for beer-flavored ice cream? Want to know the science behind beer bellies, beer goggles, and beer foam? The…

This book presents all of the evidence for beer in ancient Europe, and demonstrates the important technological as well as ideological contributions made by the Europeans to the history of beer.

When you take that first pleasing sip of your favorite brew, do you ever wonder where it came from? Not who made it or where it was bottled, but where and how beer itself was born. You might think of German or British brewers, but A Beer History: A Day at a Time Through the Year takes you back to beer’s earliest beginnings—ancient Sumeria, some four to six thousand years ago. Did you know… — As Noah made preparations for the ark, beer was there; Assyrian tablets show that he took ale aboard to sustain his family. — Sophocles wrote that a balanced diet should include bread, meat, vegetables, and…