Beer

In a story that encompasses both ploughman's hut and palace, award-winning writer Martyn Cornell takes us on a highly entertaining journey through the history of the nation's favourite tipple. From the lost beers of the past which have now disappeared from the bar, to the remarkable rise of larger, once seen as fit only for 'women and foreigners', this book tears down the myths and tells the real story of the origins of the pint. Book jacket.

Introduction: Beer and Britannia

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In the beginning: how the search for a pint brought us civilization (maybe)

3

(16)

Celt and Roman: how the legions learned to love British beer

19

(16)

A thousand years of ale: from the Saxons to Dick Whittington

35

(24)

The early years of beer: how hops became hip

59

(30)

Black is beautiful: the eighteenth century

89

(32)

Pale and interesting: the nineteenth century, part one

121

(30)

Make mine mild: the nineteenth century, part two

151

(28)

Gone for a Burton: the twentieth century, part one

179

(28)

The counter-revolution: the twentieth century, part two

207

(28)

The local brew

235

(36)

Appendix I A short and entirely wrong history of beer

271

(18)

Appendix II A word in your beer: an etymology of brewing

289

(6)

Appendix III How beer is brewed

295

(2)

Appendix IV Beer words: from abroad cooper to zythophilia

297

(8)

Bibliography

305

(14)

Index

319

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