Lisa, Christina, and Erica have been busy researching the best books and online sources (as well as a documentary) to help you build your very own beer library. While most of their suggestions are academic, historic, and technical, there are a few fun ones too! Some points of consideration they mentioned include bibliographies, budget, ethics, space, and sustainability.
Sorted by author’s surname, here are the titles they recommend:
Acitelli: The Audacity of Hops
Annemüller & Manger: Applied Mathematics for Malting & Brewing Technologists
Annemüller, Manger, & Lietz: The Yeast in the Brewery
Bamforth: Beer Health & Nutrition
Boak & Bailey: 20th Century Pub
Boulton & Quain: Brewing Yeast & Fermentation
Briated: Goodnight Brew
Briggs, Boulton, & Stevens: Brewing Science & Practice
Brown: Man Walks into a Pub
Cantwell: Starting Your Own Brewery
Cole: Let Me Tell You About Beer. The Little Book of Craft Beer
Dredge: Beer & Food Matching. The Beer Bucket List
Fix: Principles of Brewing Science
Hennessy & Jensen: Sláinte
Hieronymus: Brew Like a Monk. For the Love of Hops
Hoalst-Pullen & Patterson: Atlas of Beer
Jackson: The Pocket Guide to Beer. Ultimate Beer
Kunze: Technology Brewing & Malting
Lewis & Young: Brewing
Mallett: Malt
Markowski: Farmhouse Ales
Ogle: Ambitious Brew
Oliver: The Oxford Companion to Beer
Palmer & Kaminski: Water
Smith: The Beer Enthusiast’s Guide
Sparrow: Wild Brews
White & Zainasheff: Yeast
Woods & Rigley: The Beers of France. The Beers of Wallonia
Online Sources:
- Celt: https://celt.ucc.ie/
- 1641 Depositions – https://bit.ly/3wLtUyJ
- Aberdeen Registers – https://bit.ly/3PKyTHq
- Alfred Barnard Books – https://bit.ly/3LNXtE1
- Beer{History}FoodTravel – https://bit.ly/3wGYjgk
- Circle – https://bit.ly/3MP0LZ2
- Early English Books Online – https://bit.ly/3PKarWm
- JSTOR – https://bit.ly/3GiDuMq
- This Belongs To Us – https://bit.ly/3PUsXvF
- Zotero – https://bit.ly/3sXrcnq
Beers in this episode:
- Sierra Nevada, USA – ‘Celebration’ IPA – https://bit.ly/3LMo4kV
- Hope, Ireland – ‘Summer Seasonal 2022’ Pale Ale – https://bit.ly/3lLSol7
- Whiplash, Ireland – ‘Dark Steering’ Schwarzbier – https://bit.ly/3yYqA4B
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