I’m taking my time reading Hops and Glory, enjoying each page and reading some of them twice. So it may be a while before you get a review out of me. You’ll find early returns at the link above, as well as Stephen Beaumont’s take here.
I’m a little surprised that nobody has mentioned (though in fairness Adrian Tierney-Jones sort of does in passing) this most interesting statement:
“(Eighteenth century) IPA was more similar to a modern filtered and pasteurized beer than it was to traditional cask ale.”
Given a certain predisposition among beer lovers that filtration and pasteurization are modern and bad and that Brown and Martyn Cornell have established everything your mother taught you about IPA is wrong mighty interesting statement indeed.