For millennia, beer has been a staple beverage in cultures across
the globe. After water and tea, it is the most popular drink in the
world, and it is at the centre centre of an over $450 billion
industry. With the emergence of craft brewing and homebrewing, beer
is experiencing a renaissance that is expanding the reach of the
beer culture even further, bringing the art of brewing into homes
and widening the interest in beer as an important cultural item.
The Oxford Companion to Beer is the first reference work to fully
investigate the history and vast scope of beer, from the
agricultural makeup of various beers to the technical elements of
the brewing process, local effects of brewing on regions around the
world, and social and political implications of sharing a beer.
Entries not only define terms such as 'spent grain' and 'wort', but
give fascinating details about how these and other ingredients
affect a beer's taste, texture, and popularity. Cultural entries on
such topics as drinking songs or beer gardens offer vivid accounts
of how our drinking traditions have shifted through history, and
how these traditions vary in different parts of the world, from
Japan to Mexico, New Zealand, and Brazil, among many other
countries. The pioneers of beer-making are the subjects of
biographical entries; the legacies they left behind, in the forms
of the world's most popular beers and breweries, are recurrent
themes throughout the book. Collectively the Companion has over
1,100 entries -written by 150 of the world's most prominent beer
experts -as well as a foreword by renowned chef Tom Colicchio (star
of television's Top Chef), thorough appendices, conversion tables,
images throughout, and an index. Flipping through the book, readers
will discover everything from why beer was first taxed to how
drinkers throughout history have overcome temperance movements and
how an 'ale conner' determined the quality of a beer in the
thirteenth century. (It involved sitting in a puddle of beer.) The
Companion is comprehensive, unprecedented, and of great value to
anyone who has ever had a curiosity or appetite for beer. brewing
and homebrewing, beer is experiencing a renaissance that is
expanding the reach of the beer culture even further, bringing the
art of brewing into homes and widening the interest in beer as an
important cultural item. The Companion is comprehensive,
unprecedented, and of great value to anyone who has ever had a
curiosity or appetite for beer.
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