Beer is the world's most popular alcoholic drink, the most refreshing, the most sociable and the most versatile. It has been brewed since time immemorial, and it is still able to delight and enchant its many devotees. This captivating, thirst-inducing, beautifully illustrated book is a guide to the world's best beers, with brief histories of the breweries, tasting notes, recommendations for temperature and what food to serve them with, and entertaining anecdotes about the breweries.

This captivating, thirst-inducing, beautifully illustrated book is a guide to the world's best beers, with brief histories of the breweries, tasting notes, recommendations for temperature and what food to serve them with, and entertaining anecdotes about the breweries. Here you'll taste world classics such as the ales of England, the specialty beers of Belgium, the beers of the new wave of American craft brewers, the magical lagers of Germany and Central Europe, and a host of global beers that will enchant and dazzle.

The reader may not drink all of these beers in his lifetime, but by reading this book he will know which one will become his personal favorite.

About the author

Adrian Tierney-Jones is a freelance journalist whose work has appeared in BrewersGuardian, The Daily Telegraph, Class, The Morning Advertiser, The Field and Beers of the World, among others. He has written several books on the subject: West Country Ales, Pubsfor Families and The Big Book of Beer and is editor of the Society of Independent Brewers of the South West's Brewers Herald. Tierney-Jones is an expert taster and storyteller about the world of beer, and also writes about cider. He was a silver winner of the British Guild of Brewers Writers Award for National Journalism in 2006 and received a Budweiser Guild Budvar John White Travel Fellowship in 2007.