BEER TRAVELERS

Heading to Belgium any time soon? You might want to pick up a copy of “Around Brussels in 80 Days.”
I posted a review at Brew Like a Monk.

I won’t double post, so instead here’s a link to the “review” of CAMRA’s Good Beer Guide West Coast USA I wrote at Appellation Beer.
The capsule review: Buy it.

Let’s call The Beer Guppy’s Guide to Southern California another piece in the puzzle, and hope that author Jay Sheveck doesn’t quit with just one.
Another piece because this gives us one more regional guide to places that serve quality beer. As you can tell by the title, it’s for Southern California. It’s quite a bit [...]

When people ask when the next edition of the Beer Lovers Guide to the USA will appear we simply smile and point out a need that was so apparent a dozen years ago continues to be nicely filled today by a growing number of regional guides, the latest of which is Andy Crouch’s The Good [...]

Like the rest of the world, pubs in Ireland are changing. Fortunately, not too fast.
You read stories about how stout is no longer the dominant drink it once was. You realize the original pubs must be disappearing, because a couple of large companies use parts of them to build “original” Irish pubs around the world. [...]

CAMRA Books, the publishing division of the Campaign for Real Ale, launches a new book, The Big Book of Beer.
Should you buy it? We’ll pass judgment after reading it.
Only hope it is close to as lovely as The Book of Beer Knowledge by Jeff Evans (also from CAMRA).
Articles from Big Book author Adrian Tierney-Jones [...]

Nicholas Lezard reviews 300 Beers to Try Before You Die! Yes, still another “before you die” list and still another “best beers” list. Lezard is properly skeptical:
There is much advice these days, many lists shoved in our faces, of experiences we ought to have before we pass away; such is the contemporary secular eschatology. But [...]