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Brew Britannia: The Strange Rebirth of British Beer Considering the long history of British brewing, most historians have focused on London or Burton and their respective great eras of brewing. Few have turned their attention to the most recent forty years, a depressing time when ales lost out to lagers and breweries consolidated and collapsed by the legion. But it’s possibly the most dynamic period in Britain’s brewing history, and certainly one of the most interesting–and these are the decades Jessica Boak and Ray Bailey consider in their engrossing new book, Brew Britannia. The narrative they tell is equal parts straight history and ethnography. The events are fascinating because they’re so English. (The title of the book is slightly misleading; this is really a story about England, and nearly all the protagonists are English or live and brew in England.) The story starts out describing the activities of two different citizen gro … |
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