The meaning of beer How our pursuit of the perfect pint built the world
Book - 2024
"What's the oldest and most consumed alcoholic beverage on earth? Beer, of course. And it might just be one of our more important inventions. Since its creation thirteen thousand years ago, our love of beer has shaped everything from religious ceremonies to advertising, and architecture to bioengineering. The people who built the pyramids were paid in ale; the first fridge was built for beer, not food; bacteria was discovered while investigating sour beer; Germany's beer halls hosted Hitler's rise to power; and brewer's yeast may yet be the answer to climate change. In The Meaning of Beer, award-winning beer writer Jonny Garrett tells the stories of these incredible human moments and inventions, taking readers to so...me of the best-known beer destinations in the world--Munich and Oktoberfest, Carlsberg Brewery's historic laboratory, St. Louis and the home of Budweiser--as well as those lesser known, from a five-thousand-year-old brewery in the Egyptian desert to Arctic Svalbard, home to the world's most northerly pub. Ultimately, this is not a book about how we made beer, but how beer made us"--
- Subjects
- Published
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Toronto, Ontario, Canada :
Hanover Square Press
2024.
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Item Description
- First published in 2024 by Allen & Unwin in the UK.
- Physical Description
- 319 pages ; 24 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (page 299) and index.
- ISBN
- 9781335230836
- Civilization : or how beer built our first cities and cultures
- Science : or how beer spurred us on to new technological heights
- Politics : or how beer has influenced the way the world is run
- Identity : or how beer defines who we are as individuals and nations
- Culture : or how beer is a key part of everything from TV to sport
- Cuisine : or how beer changed what and how we eat
- Community : or how beer brings people together
- Entertainment : or isn't beer supposed to be fun?
- The future : or how beer will continue to change--and even save--humanity.