My first new book in a while

Which I literally finished writing this morning. It's volume four of Tour!, assemblages of my travel reports.

 But this one does have some new bits. Because I forgot to post some of the reports from Brazil. No idea why. it just seems to have slipped my mind.

Here's the cover that I previewed the other day.

 Buy a copy now!*

https://www.lulu.com/shop/ronald-pattinson/tour-vol-iv/paperback/product-9y65rv.html

* A forlorn hope, based on past experiences.

A new book

I've just knocked out a little book on IPA. Not a definitive book, by any means. Just a snapshot of UK IPA around the time of WW II.

This slim volume will tell you all you need to know about IPA during WW II. And, as a spacial bonus, there are a couple of dozen home brew IPA recipes.

If you're interested in IPA and WW II this is the book for you:

Currently it's only available in Kindle format. There will be a paperback Lulu version when O can be arsed.

Another desperate effort

to sell my new book:

Recipes? It's got them all. Mild. Strong Mild. Imperial Mild. Watery mild. And loads of non-Mild recipes, too. All sorts of historic stuff never published before. Not even by me. Lagers, North American Ales and other crazy stuff.

Please buy it. It's dead good. And Andrew has just learned how much calculus is in his course.

http://www.lulu.com/shop/ronald-pattinson/lets-brew/paperback/product-23289812.html

And there's also my sadly neglected Scottish masterpiece:
 
http://www.lulu.com/shop/ronald-pattinson/scotland-vol-2/paperback/product-23090497.html

One of my favourite Alexei covers. Worth every one of those twenty euros. Hopefully he'll never learn of the concept of royalties.

You really shouldn't

forget about my new book:

It's full of new recipes - around half of the 200-odd it contains have never been published before.  With recipes for Lagers, North American Ales and other exotic stuff.

Please buy it. It's dead good. And Andrew has just started University.

http://www.lulu.com/shop/ronald-pattinson/lets-brew/paperback/product-23289812.html

What should my next book be?

Been pretty pleased with the sales of my last vanity book, "Let's Brew!" Give it another decade or two and I'll have earned back my expenses. (Don't tell Dolores that. I quite like havin a ful set of bollocks.)


What should my next book be? Assuming I want to actually earn some money from it.

Porter! vol. 2
Range!!
Mild! vol. 2
1959 Beer Style Guide
Victory!
1859 Beer Style Guide
Let's Brew vol. 2

Vote in the poll. I probably won't pay any attention to the result. I didn't last time.

It's time to pester you again

about my new book:

It's full of new recipes - around half of the 200-odd it contains have never been published before.  With recipes for Lagers, North American Ales and other exoticstuff.

Please buy it. It's dead good. And Andrew is about to go to University.

http://www.lulu.com/shop/ronald-pattinson/lets-brew/paperback/product-23289812.html

Something else you shouldn't forget

is my newish Scottish book. Full of stuff. Information stuff, tables, lots off those, and, of course, a totally ridiculous number of recipes: 350-odd.

It's easily the most accurate history of Scottish beer ever written. Not that hard, as all the others are total bollocks.

Buy my new Scottish book. It's dead good.

http://www.lulu.com/shop/ronald-pattinson/scotland-vol-2/paperback/product-23090497.html

Save a child this Christmas

I'm dreading Christmas. Now the kids are both of drinking age, we'll need an ocean of booze to tide us over the holidays. How can I possibly afford it?

The money has to come from somewhere. My books are the answer.

Every book you buy will get Andrew a slab of Amstel or Alexei a bottle of bargain vodka. Just imagine their happy, smiling faces on Christmas morning - after they've knocked it all back. Every book you buy will get a kid through one day of the holidays - and remember there are twelve days of Christmas.

Make a boy happy. Buy my books!

Yule Logs!!!

Yeah, got this year's version done and it's still November. Weird.

The cover - as are the contents - is totally new. I just can't be arsed to upload the new vover.

What the hell. Here's the new, shittier cover. I know. I should have left the old image.

Alexei is begging you to buy it. He'll have no vodka this Christmas without any sales.

Update

I've had a very bust few weeks. A few days in Chicago and three trips to the UK. Understanably, it's left me even more confused than usual.

But I've got some new brewing records. I'd expected to harvest Shepherd Neame's. Finding a brewing book just lying around at Caledonian on Monday was just good fortune. And I wasn't going to pass up the chance. Especially as it's a Scottish brewery. The records span 1932 to 1939. You can probably guess what they contain: several Pale Ales of different strengths parti-gyled together.

Speaking of Scotland, I'm starting to seriously prepare my Macbeth tour of the USA. At least the first leg of it in April. Which is provisionally set to be New Holland, Kalamazoo, Minneapolis, St. Louis, Indianapolis, Chicago.

It's all connected to Scotland! volume II, which is mostly recipes.The concept it that I'll send a themed set of Scottish recipes to a home brew club. Their members brew up the recipes then I troll up talk about Scottish beer in general and the recipes made in particular. Then I get to drink the beer. Sounds great, doesn't it? As a bonus, anyone who brews a recipe I'll give 50 - 100 words to describe it in the final version of the book.

Commercial brewers are welcome to participate, too.

I'm open to suggestions from other parts of the US and from Europe, too. Just get in touch via the gadget at the top left of this page.

Something else I forgot

Another book. Can you believe it? I forgot about it. Mostly put together last year, fiddled with this week. Polished up with my patented turd buffer.

A guidebook to (bits) of a country that no longer exists. Descriptions of beers that haven't been brewed for decades. Ratings for razed pubs. So useful. [insert time machine joke].

All of the bits. No, not all. Quite a few of the bits I've written about the DDR in the last 20-odd years. Mostly totally, totally useless information.

You can buy it here, if your head has a few too many bumps:

http://www.lulu.com/shop/ronald-pattinson/ddr/paperback/product-22836958.html

Another cracking cover from Alexei. Much better than the useless crap inside. It's an old trick. Classy cover, rubbish inside.

Exhibition Ale

Breweries were very proud of winning medals in beer competitions. They still are, now I think about it.

I've found loads of adverts bigging up victories. But were they playing fair? Were they entering their standard beers, or were they brewing up something special? (It's an accusation that's been thrown around more recently, too.) I only know this: I've found a few brews in the logs marked as being for an exhibition or competition.

Of course, some stretched the rules. So why shouldn't I?

August is competition entry time. For beer hacks like me. Not just the British one now, but the US one, too. Time for me me rush out my exhibition tome. A book mostly intended as a competition entry.

As a lowly blogger and occasional magazine writer, I like to have something more lumpy to throw at the judges. Something that looks vaguely like a book, rather than just some flimsy internet crap.

Last year's effort I thought one of my best books. Vaguely coherent and with jokes. Hang on, I'll just check how many copies I've shifted of it . . . . . wow . . eleven . . . but I bought six of those. An impressive five actual sales. I doubt this year's exhibition book will match that.

What can the three or four of you expect this year? You remember all those filler posts maquerading as beer reviews? With elastic bands and selotape I've made something resembling a book out of them. If you don't look too closely. I'm, really selling this, aren't I?

Should you feel inclined, you can waste your money here:

Sorry, but it's dead expensive because I want the images in colour.

I'd buy a copy as an investment if I were you. Assuming you can track me down to sign it. It'll be one of the rarest of my many rare books. I'm buying 20 copies, signing them and burying them. The map showing where they are is the kids' inheritance. I plan drinking away the house. (Don't tell Dolores that.)

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Busy again

Projects schmojects. I've always gor something on.

It being May I'm on a Mildy jag. Seems I'm some sort of expert on the topic. If only because no-one else knows fuck all.

Lots of what I do isn't very romantic. Been writing recipes today. Stuff  I won't be posting. Well, mostly not. It's for a book.

Herer's a clue to what I'm doing:

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