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Great Beer Guide: The World's 500 Best Beers  
Author: Michael Jackson
ISBN: 0789451565
Format: Handover
Publish Date: June, 2005
 
     
     
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Book Description
The world's 500 best beers! Which beers are the best? Get the inside stories on Czech pilseners, German lagers, Belgian wheat beers and Trappist brews, classic British ales, Irish stouts, and American microbrews. The shelves of the supermarkets are packed with an every-changing array of beers from around the world. Bars, pubs, restaurants, and clubs stock an ever-greater range. Which will suit your tastes? Which is the beer for the moment? Will this beer be light, crisp, and refreshing; this one sweet, that one dry and bitter? TV Beer Hunter Michael Jackson has tasted them all. He describes the flavor and body of each beer, explains why beers taste the way they do, notes their strength and ideal serving temperature. Spot the best beers with aid of superbly shot photographs, each showing the bottle, label, and the properly poured beer in its ideal glass. Never before has beer looked so beautiful.




Great Beer Guide: The World's 500 Best Beers

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The world's 500 best beers! Which beers are the best? Get the inside stories on Czech pilseners, German lagers, Belgian wheat beers and Trappist brews, classic British ales, Irish stouts, and American microbrews. A Shopper's Guide: The shelves of the supermarkets are packed with an every-changing array of beers from around the world. Bars, pubs, restaurants, and clubs stock an ever-greater range. Which will suit your tastes? Which is the beer for the moment? Will this beer be light, crisp, and refreshing; this one sweet, that one dry and bitter? See For Yourself: TV Beer Hunter Michael Jackson has tasted them all. He describes the flavor and body of each beer, explains why beers taste the way they do, notes their strength and ideal serving temperature. Spot the best beers with aid of superbly shot photographs, each showing the bottle, label, and the properly poured beer in its ideal glass. Never before has beer looked so beautiful.

Author Biography: Known as the Beer Hunter (for his Discovery Channel/PBS series), Michael Jackson is the world's top writer on the subject. He is also widely regarded as one of the fathers of the American microbrewery movement. Jackson's writing has appeared in The Washington Post, Playboy, The Wine Spectator and many other publications. He is a regular guest lecturer at the National Geographic Society, the Smithsonian Institution, And the Anthropological Museum of the University of Pennsylvania. He lives in London.

     



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