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Barcode30053003852533
Home LocationParis-Bourbon
Call No663 GARR
Title The meaning of beer : how our pursuit of the perfect pint built the world / Jonny Garrett.
Author Garrett, Jonny, author.
CollectionNEW: Adult 600-699
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 Paris-Bourbon30053003852533663 GARR11/22/2024 Available

Catalog Details

Personal Name Garrett, Jonny, author.
Title Statement The meaning of beer : how our pursuit of the perfect pint built the world / Jonny Garrett.
Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice Toronto, Ontario, Canada : Hanover Square Press, 2024.
Physical Description 319 pages ; 24 cm
Content Type text rdacontent
Media Type unmediated rdamedia
Carrier Type volume rdacarrier
Bibliography, Etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (page 299) and index.
Summary, Etc. "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 some 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"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Beer.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Beer History.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Beer Social aspects.

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