Beer

by Cornell, Martyn

• ISBN13: 9780755311651
• ISBN10: 0755311655
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-10-30
• Publisher: Headline Book Pub Ltd

Summary

In a story that encompasses both ploughman's hut and palace, award-winning writer Martyn Cornell takes us on a highly entertaining journey through the history of the nation's favourite tipple. From the lost beers of the past which have now disappeared from the bar, to the remarkable rise of larger, once seen as fit only for 'women and foreigners', this book tears down the myths and tells the real story of the origins of the pint. Book jacket.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Beer and Britannia	1	(2)
In the beginning: how the search for a pint brought us civilization (maybe)	3	(16)
Celt and Roman: how the legions learned to love British beer	19	(16)
A thousand years of ale: from the Saxons to Dick Whittington	35	(24)
The early years of beer: how hops became hip	59	(30)
Black is beautiful: the eighteenth century	89	(32)
Pale and interesting: the nineteenth century, part one	121	(30)
Make mine mild: the nineteenth century, part two	151	(28)
Gone for a Burton: the twentieth century, part one	179	(28)
The counter-revolution: the twentieth century, part two	207	(28)
The local brew	235	(36)
Appendix I A short and entirely wrong history of beer	271	(18)
Appendix II A word in your beer: an etymology of brewing	289	(6)
Appendix III How beer is brewed	295	(2)
Appendix IV Beer words: from abroad cooper to zythophilia	297	(8)
Bibliography	305	(14)
Index	319