If you've read this blog anytime in the last three months you might have noticed a bit of a theme going on. A Caledonian one. It seemed a shame to let all those words just leak off into cyberspace. That's why I squeezed them into a book.
And just in time for the biggest book-buying bonanza of the year. What a happy coincidence.
It's packed with my trademark long quotes and number-packed tables. Along with a few feeble jokes and the odd kick thrown in the direction of my less assiduous colleagues.
The best book ever written about Scottish beer*. Not that there's a great deal in the way of competition.
In short, a book every Scottish beer-lover and every lover of Scottish beer should own. Buy a copy now!
* Ian Donnachie's excellent book is about the Scottish brewing industry, not Scottish beer.
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6 comments:
Great sub-title.
Is "Strong!" going to come out? I feel my knowledge of British beer styles is still lacking.
Does the book explain the origin of the modern north american/BJCP idea of scottish ales? It can't be something they just made up. There has to be some truth in it. I'm looking at a bottle of Belhaven Wee Heavy and the label says "Belhaven Wee Heavy has a rich deep flavour that derives from the greater proportion of malted barley to hops which characterised Scottish ales of the 19th century." I recently re-read the Scottish Ale chapter in Ray Daniel's Designing Great Beer. He acknowledges that Alloa was a great brewing centre producing IPA's for export and questions the origin of the peaty smokey, low hopped, malty ale but he goes on to describe it as a unique style from Scotland.
Edward, no, they couldn't have just made that up. Could they?
The book is a shitload of source material that lets you draw your own conclusions.
Ed, I've been distracted by Caledonia.
"Strong!" is a pathetic handful of pages, way from ready.
Andrew loves your avatar.
The avatar comes from Martyn Cornell calling me a Stalinist.
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