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Three Sheets To The Wind : One Man's Quest For The Meaning Of Beer

Three Sheets To The Wind : One Man's Quest For The Meaning Of Beer

Author: Pete Brown
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Publication Date: 04 Jun 2010
ISBN-13: 9780330442473
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Description


Meet Pete Brown, a beer jounalist, beer drinker and author of an irreverent book about British beer, "Man Walks Into A Pub". One day, Pete's world is rocked when he discovers several countries produce, consume and celebrate beer far more than we do. The Germans claim they make the best beer in the world, the Australians consider its consumption a patriotic duty, the Spanish regard lager as a trendy youth drink and the Japanese have built a skyscrapter in the shape of a foaming glass of their favourite brew. At home, meanwhile, people seem to be turning their back on the great British pint. What's going on? Obviously, the only way to find out was to on the biggest pub crawl ever. Drinking in more than three hundred bars, in twenty-seven towns, in thirteen different countries, on four different continents, Pete puts on a stone in weight and does irrecoverable damage to his health in the pursuit of saloon-bar enlightenment. "A fine book...the exact tone that a work on this social drug requires." - "The Times". "Over 300 bars later and the man still manages to make you laugh." - "Daily Mirror". "Carlsberg don't publish books.
But if they did, they would probably come up with "Three Sheets to the Wind"..." - "Metro". "A marvellous book which is as enlightening about the countries he visited as any travel guide." - "Adventure Magazine".


Table of Contents


Acknowledgements - i: Acknowledgements Chapter - 1: 'Just the one' Chapter - 2: 'Los Borrachos' Chapter - 3: 'Where you find beer, there you find good life' Chapter - 4: 'A hundred thousand welcomes' Chapter - 5: 'The smell of freshly poured beer is the smell of my country' Chapter - 6: 'Beervana' Chapter - 7: 'Mate, are you right?' Chapter - 8: 'Toriaezu birru' Chapter - 9: 'Countless thousands of fattened creatures . . .' Chapter - 10: '. . . making themselves objects of derision . . .' Chapter - 11: 'Wi'aht it, he's miserable' Section - ii: Appendix - Where to buy Chapter - iii: Further reading


Author Description


Pete Brown used to advertise beer for a living before he realized that writing about it was even more fun, and came
with even more free beer. He contributes to various newspapers, magazines and beer trade press titles, writes the annual report on Britain's cask ale market, sings beer's praises on TV and radio, and runs an influential blog. In 2009, Pete was awarded the Michael Jackson Gold Tankard Award and named Beer Writer of the Year by the British Guild of Beer Writers.
(No, not that Michael Jackson, the other one.)






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