Brew Britannia: The Strange Rebirth of British Beer by Jessica Boak and Ray Bailey

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  • ISBN 10 1781312710
  • ISBN 13 9781781312711
  • Published Jun 19 2014
  • Format eBook
  • Page Count 304
  • Language English
  • Countries United Kingdom
  • Publisher Aurum Press
  • Imprint Aurum Press Ltd

Publishers Text

Before the First World War Britain was home to over 4,000 breweries. But by 1960 their number had dwindled to 358 and, with the 'Big Six' increasingly dominant, the prospects for British beer looked weak, yellow and fizzy. In 2012, however, UK breweries topped 1,000 for the first time since the Great Depression, and they are now producing and exporting more varied and inventive ale than ever before. Across the country, evidence of this national brewing renaissance is easy to find: the Campaign for Real Ale has more members than the Conservative Party; beer festivals proliferate with every passing month; the Camden Brewery and Meantime have become international brands, producing acclaimed lagers and IPAs; the ultra-fashionable BrewDog dispenses shots of strange 40%-proof liquids to hipster media types; and cyberspace plays host to hundreds of thousands of beer enthusiasts, all debating and virtually savouring the merits of modish antipodean hops, or the latest chocolate stout. Brew Britannia will tell the story of this remarkable reversal. Following a disparate group of Trotskyite hacks, eccentric City bankers, hippie 'microbrewers' and a lot of men in pubs, the writers behind the acclaimed Boak & Bailey blog promise to reveal how punter power pulled the British pint back from the brink.

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