The Story of Craft Beer by Pete Brown

The Story of Craft Beer by Pete Brown
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

It’s interesting yet brief. It gives you a basic background but not enough to rush out reciting facts to your friends while filling in an application for Mastermind. The illustrations are simple yet to the point; and there’s quite a focus on graphic design; perhaps as a space-filler. The history is vague, but then again Brown comments on events that weren’t really charted until they were identified as trends which were spotted afterwards. The main thing to take away from it is as little or as much you want; and experts may not learn anything new. It’s rather a flip-through coffee-table book to refresh your memory of what’s out there and to welcome new suppers into the fold; preferably reading with glass in hand. What it does make you do is to discover more; and it’s a shame that Brown doesn’t provide other avenues for further pursual. I’d be disappointed if I’d paid for it.

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