Tiny Bubbles: New Books to Explore

I recently received advance copies of these two books to review so I thought I’d pass my thoughts along. I’ve never really been big on the review thing (at least not with beers), but I love books and had a few opinions on these ones that I wanted to share.

A trend I’ve noticed over the past two years with beer books is how so many of them are overly focused on trying to explain beer and beer styles to people. It seems like every other month someone is publishing a book that basically regurgitates the style guidelines. This is great for the many people still just getting into more interesting beer styles, but even for the basic craft beer fan they can seem extremely simple and boring.

Another theme that many books tend to devote at least a few pages to is how to properly enjoy beer. Glassware, serving temperatures, how to smell a beer, how to taste a beer, how to savor a beer. I’m not joking, these are genuine topics in a lot of books I’ve seen. I’m not sure how much good it does to te

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