The Best Ale Beer Books of All Time

Join award-winning beer writer Mark Dredge on his search for the world’s best beer adventures and experiences. Join award-winning beer writer Mark Dredge on his search for the world’s best beer adventures and experiences. This collection of over 150 unmissable beer experiences features the world’s greatest beers, bars, breweries, and events: it’s the ultimate bucket list for every beer lover.

Combining travel, city guides, food, and history, The Beer Bucket List takes you around the globe, via traditional old British pubs, quirky Belgian bars, brilliant Bavarian brauhauses, spots to enjoy delicious food and beer, the hop gardens of New Zealand, Southeast Asia’s buzzing streets, amazing beer festivals, unique beer styles, pioneering breweries, and the best new craft brewers. This is any beer lover’s must-read book about the most essential beer experiences on the planet.

Bringing beer history to life, Viking Age Brew takes readers on a lavishly illustrated tour of rustic brewhouses fueled by wood and passion. Sahti is a Nordic farmhouse ale that is still crafted in accordance with ancient traditions dating back to the Viking Age. It is often thought of as an oddity among beer styles, but this book demonstrates that a thousand years ago such ales were the norm in northern Europe, before the modern-style hopped beer we drink today reached the masses. Viking Age Brew is the first English-language book to describe the tradition, history, and hands-on brewing of this ale.

Whether you are a brewing novice or an experienced brewer, this book will unlock the doors to brewing ancient ales from medieval times and the Viking Age.

Fully Revised and Updated, The Complete Joy of Homebrewing is everything you need to know to brew beer at home from start to finish including new recipes, updated charts on hop varieties, secrets to fermentation, beer kit tips, and more—from the master of homebrewing. The Complete Joy of Homebrewing is the essential guide to understanding and making beer, from stouts, ales, lagers, and bitters, to specialty beers and meads. Everything to get started is here: the basics of building a home brewery, world-class proven recipes, easy-to-follow instructions, and the latest advancements in brewing.

Master brewer Charlie Papazian also includes the history and lore of beer, the science behind brewing, and tips on how to create your own original ale. This completely revised and updated edition includes:. An expanded and updated homebrew recipe chart: How to brew 53 traditional beersA Beer Styles chart with easy-to-understand descriptions of key flavor and aroma characters along with homebrew technical data to make your own recipe formulationsA list of more than 75 beer types describing strength, hop aroma, bitterness, flavor, color, sweetness, and alcohol percentageExpanded charts on 68 hop varieties, descriptions, and usesBrand new recipesBeer kit tipsKey information about using and understanding hopsFive secrets to fermentationAnd much more.