1001 Beers You Must Try Before You Die

Beer is the most popular alcoholic drink in the world, the most refreshing, the most sociable, and the most versatile. It has been brewed since the dawn of time and still has the capacity to delight and obsess its many adherents. This bewitching, thirst-inducing, gorgeously illustrated book is a guide to the best beers in the world with a succinct history of the breweries, tasting notes, temperature recommendations, and what food to serve them with, together with entertaining anecdotes about the breweries.

Here you will sample 1001 world classics such as the ales of England, the speciality beers of Belgium, the new wave beers of U.S. craft brewers, the magical lagers of Germany and Central Europe, and a host of world beers that will beguile and bedazzle (including 17 from New Zealand). The reader might not drink all these beers in their lifetime, but after reading this book they will know which ones will be their personal favorites.

Author Biography

Adrian Tierney-Jones is a freelance journalist whose work appears in Brewers Guardian, The Daily Telegraph, Class, The Morning Advertiser, The Field and Beers of the World amongst others. He has written several books on the subject: West Country Ales, Pubs for Families and The Big Book of Beer, and is the editor of the Society of Independent Brewers South West's Brewers Herald. Tierney-Jones is an expert taster and talker on the world of beer, and also writes about cider. He was the silver award winner in the British Guild of Beer Writer's Award for National Journalism in 2006 and awarded the Guild's Budweiser Budvar John White Travel Bursary in 2007.