{"id":6451,"date":"2011-08-30T10:39:47","date_gmt":"2011-08-30T16:39:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/?p=6451"},"modified":"2011-08-30T10:39:47","modified_gmt":"2011-08-30T16:39:47","slug":"book-review-a-pissheads-pub-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/book-review-a-pissheads-pub-guide\/","title":{"rendered":"Book review: A Pisshead’s Pub Guide"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Those were the times when I thought ALL Czech beer was great. That slowly started to change, but I would still drink pretty much anything that was brewed in this country.”<\/em><\/p>\n

– Max Bahnson<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Prague:There is much more to Prague than beer,<\/a> but for a beer oriented visitor there never seems to be enough time to discover all the pivo<\/em> the city has to offer.<\/p>\n

Sure, start with a pilsner, because when you order a pilsner in Prague it will be Pilsner Urquell. That’s the law. And many, probably most, tourists leave town happy to have enjoyed what beer experiences luck gives them.<\/p>\n

Then there are the rest of us. We want to know about V\u00fdcepn\u00ed Pivo<\/em> and Le\u017e\u00e1k<\/em> — “Hey, these aren’t listed in the Official Beer Geek Style Guidelines (ABGSG)” — and the yeasty difference between Nefiltrovan\u00e9<\/em> and Kvasnicov\u00e9.<\/em> We want to know the best places to drink in situ;<\/em> the best revivalists beers featuring pilsner malt and Saaz hops as well as cutting edge beers (stouts and IPAs in Prague, indeed).<\/p>\n

We need books like Evan Rail’s Good Beer Guide Prague & the Czech Republic<\/em><\/a> and Prague: A Pisshead’s Pub Guide<\/em><\/a> by Max Bahnson. I’ve previously recommended Evan’s book, and in suggesting that Prague is a two beer guidebook city must include a small disclaimer related to the Pisshead Guide<\/em>.<\/p>\n

When he was writing the book, Max sent me some sample pages. I enthusiastically endorsed the content and the style. It would be a dirty trick for me to turn around and criticize it now. But honestly, I can think of only one thing I’d change. It would be cool if the hand-drawn maps were on napkins or coasters you could rip from the book. <\/p>\n

I expect a guide book to be easy to read, long useful information and amusing. Because this book is organized by pub crawls it can take an extra few minutes to find a single destination, and an index would help. But how much you enjoy the Pisshead Guide<\/em> really depends on if you enjoy the writing. I do, and originally pulled out some quotes from the book to illustrate. Then I realized it is better to suggest you visit his blog<\/a> and read at least until you’ve come across a paragraph or three that you figure would piss off somebody. Then you’ll have a better idea if this book is for you.<\/p>\n

You can buy it here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Those were the times when I thought ALL Czech beer was great. That slowly started to change, but I would still drink pretty much anything that was brewed in this country.” – Max Bahnson There is much more to Prague than beer, but for a beer oriented visitor there never seems to be enough time … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4wTn-1G3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6451"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7505,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6451\/revisions\/7505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}