During a recent episode of the television series “Mad Men” newcomer Faye Miller told the iconic Don Draper, “I don’t know how people drink the way you do around here. I’d fall asleep.” Miller serves as a proxy for those of us in the twenty-first century who are astonished at the amount of alcohol consumed [...]

Today only BeerBooks.com is selling every one of its books for 40 per cent off. So what are you doing here? Go order some books. They don’t even have to be by me. Support a beer author. Support an independent beer-centric store.

Just last year in Great Britain, Procter & Gamble argued in court that Pringles are not potato chips (and hence not subject to tax rules) because they do not contain enough potato to have the “essence of potato.” The court rejected the argument. In his new book “How Pleasure Works” author Paul Bloom uses this [...]

Pardon another brief advertisement. I’ll be a guest Sunday on The Brewing Network Sunday Session. The show begins at 5 p.m. Pacific. We’ll be talking about Brewing With Wheat (I have a copy in hand, Alan, and it weighs 11.8 ounces), the book and the physical activity. You can even ask questions live by joining [...]

Pardon this brief advertisement. The printer will ship Brewing with Wheat next week, meaning it goes to the distributors and then to stores. It could be in your hands by the end of the month. The “public service” announcement here is that you can pre-order it for 20 percent off from Brewers Publications, entering the [...]

A British pub is hosting a hymn and beer night with the help of a local church. As well as pub customers and members of the congregation the Salvation Army also joined in the festivities. Ron Pattison is offering some of his collected works for sale in hard copy of downloadable form. I can speak [...]

It started with this email from a friend: “What is the best book on the market that touches on beer, history, styles, glassware, etc.?” This was an easy one to answer: Michael Jackson’s Beer Companion, even though it was published going on 20 years ago and requires tracking down a used copy. So easy I [...]

Alan McLeod totally nailed it with his review of The Naked Pint: An Unadulterated Guide to Craft Beer, answering the two biggest questions I had while reading the book. – First, why are there homebrew recipes in this book? Can’t even a book for beginners be a bit specialized or must every introduction to craft [...]

Let’s start out with what’s wrong with The beerbistro Cookbook. It’s too dang pretty to risk taking into the kitchen to refer to. This book is pure food and beer porn. Before moving on to what’s right about the book I must offer a longer than usual disclaimer. Co-author Stephen Beaumont is a long-time friend [...]

World’s Best Beers: One Thousand Craft Brews from Cask to Glass, which I mentioned earlier this week, is a coffee table book, weighing in at nearly three and a half pounds. Although it includes an introduction to beer up front, thus qualifying as novice friendly, and a beer-and-primer apparently required in all new beer books, [...]