[Beer Lecture] Book Complete
4 min readDec 6, 2022
That’s it. With the Chapter 34 published recently, ‘Beer: a Lecture (Tasting Included)’ is officially complete (and I’m reverting to preparing second edition of the API book). 40 000 words, 265 references, 107 sources, and two years of work!
As usual, you might find source codes and complete book in PDF, EPUB, and HTML formats on my GitHub: https://twirl.github.io/Beer-Lecture/.
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Thank you! Below is the list of books, blogs, and articles that I’d read while preparing the book — and recommend everyone to do the same if you want to know more of history of beer and brewing.
- A Hymn to Ninkasi
https://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/cgi-bin/etcsl.cgi?text=t.4.23.1&display=Crit&charenc=gcirc&lineid=t4231.p1#t4231.p1 - Acitelli, T. (2013) The Audacity of Hops: the History of America’s Craft Beer Revolution. ISBN 9781613743881
- Bailey, P. Paul’s Beer & Travel Blog
https://baileysbeerblog.blogspot.com - Bennett, J. M. (1996) Ale, Beer, and Brewsters in England: Women’s Work in a Changing World, 1300–1600. ISBN 9780195126501
- Boak & Bailey’s Beer Blog
https://boakandbailey.com/ - Cornell, M. Zythophile
https://zythophile.co.uk/ - Cornell, M. (2010) Amber, Gold & Black. The History of Britain’s Great Beers. ISBN 9780752475943
- Damerow, P. (2001) Sumerian Beer: The Origins of Brewing Technology in Ancient Mesopotamia. Cuneiform Digital Library Journal, 2012:002
https://cdli.ucla.edu/pubs/cdlj/2012/cdlj2012_002.html - Dietler, M. (2006) Alcohol: Anthropological/Archaeological Perspectives. Annual Review of Anthropology, 2006. 35:229–49:230
https://www.academia.edu/272118/Alcohol_Anthropological_Archaeological_Perspectives - Gallone, B., Mertens, S., Gordon, J. L., Maere, S., Verstrepen, K., Steensels, J. (2017) Origins, evolution, domestication and diversity of Saccharomyces beer yeasts. Current Opinion in Biotechnology, Volume 49
https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/current-opinion-in-biotechnology/vol/49/suppl/C - Garshol, L. M. Larsblog
https://www.garshol.priv.no - George, A. (1999) The Epic of Gilgamesh. A new Translation. Translated with an Introduction by Andrew George. ISBN 0140447210
https://www.academia.edu/16568346/Epic_of_Gilgamesh_The_George_trans_Penguin_1999_ - Gillman, G. Gary Gillman’s Beer et seq.
https://www.beeretseq.com/ - Guinard, J. (1990) Lambic. ISBN 0937381225
- Hallen, van der P. (2007) Concentration in the Belgian brewing Industry and the Breakthrough of Lager in the interwar years. Center for Economic Studies Discussions Paper Series (DPS) 07.28
- Hieronymus, S. (2005) Brew Like a Monk: Trappist, Abbey, and Strong Belgian Ales and How to Brew Them. ISBN 093738187X
- Hindy, S. (2014) The Craft Beer Revolution. How a Band of Microbrewers Is Transforming the World’s Favorite Drink. ISBN 9781137278760
- Hornsey, I. S. (2008) A History of Beer and Brewing. ISBN 0854046305
- Howard, P.H. (2013) Too big to ale? Globalization and consolidation in the beer industry
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2268705 - Jackson, M. The Beer Hunter
http://www.beerhunter.com/index.html - Jackson, M. (1997) The New World Guide to Beer. ISBN 0894712926
- Janssen, D. Hors Catégorie Brewing
http://www.horscategoriebrewing.com - Johns, C. H. W. (1904) Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/28674 - Krenzke, J. R. (2014) Change Is Brewing: The Industrialization of the London Beer-Brewing Trade, 1400–1750. Dissertations. 1276
https://ecommons.luc.edu/luc_diss/1276/ - Lacambre, G. (1851) Traité complet de la fabrication des bières et de la distillation des grains, pommes de terre, vins, betteraves, mélasses, etc.
https://www.google.com/books/edition/Trait%C3%A9_complet_de_la_fabrication_des_bi/yBQTAAAAQAAJ - Lambic.Info
https://www.lambic.info/ - Meussdoerffer, F. G. (2009) A Comprehensive History of Beer Brewing. Handbook of Brewing: Processes, Technology, Markets. Edited by H. M. Eßlinger (2009). ISBN 9783527316748
https://www.academia.edu/4421107/1_A_Comprehensive_History_of_Beer_Brewing_1 - Mulder, R. Lost Beers. Historic beers by Roel Mulder
https://lostbeers.com - Nelson, M. (2001) Beer in Greco-Roman Antiquity
https://www.academia.edu/6156225/Beer_in_Greco-Roman_Antiquity - Nelson, M. (2005) The Barbarian’s Beverage. A History of Beer in Ancient Europe. ISBN 020330912X
- Oevelen, D. van, Spaepen M., Timmermans P., Verachtert H. (1977) Microbilogocal Aspects of Spontaneous Wort Fermentation in the Production of Lambic and Gueuze
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/j.2050-0416.1977.tb03825.x - Pattinson, R. Shut up about Barclay Perkins
http://barclayperkins.blogspot.com/ - Persyn, D., Swinnen, J.F.M., Vanormelingen, S. (2010) Belgian Beers: Where History meets Globalization. LICOS Discussion Paper №271
https://www.econstor.eu/handle/10419/74982 - Poelmans, E., Swinnen, J.F.M. (2012) From Monasteries to Multinationals (and Back): A Historical Review of the Beer Economy. Journal of Wine Economics, Volume 6, Issue 2
- Poelmans, E., Swinnen, J.F.M. (2016) A Brief Economic History of Beer
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/268043355_A_Brief_Economic_History_of_Beer - Poelmans, E., Taylor, J.E. (2009) Belgium’s historic beer diversity: should we raise a pint to institutions? Journal of Institutional Economics. Accepted Manuscript (January 24, 2019)
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-institutional-economics/article/abs/belgiums-historic-beer-diversity-should-we-raise-a-pint-to-institutions/13EAB773C968405AEE9D95C6780A39EB - Rail, E. Beer Culture. Stories about great beer from the countries that invented it.
http://www.beerculture.org/ - Spitaels, F., Wieme, A.D., Janssens, M., Aerts, M., Daniel, H.-M., Van Landschoot, A., De Vuyst, L., Vandamme, P. (2014) The Microbial Diversity of Traditional Spontaneously Fermented Lambic Beer. PLOS ONE, April 2014 | Volume 9 | Issue 4 | e95384
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0095384 - Steele, M. (2012) IPA: Brewing Techniques, Recipes, and the Evolution of India Pale Ale
- Swinnen, J., Briski, D. (2017) Beeronomics. How Beer Explains the World. ISBN 0198808305
- The Oxford Companion to Beer (2012) Edited by Garrett Oliver. ISBN 0195367138
- Unger, R. W. (2001) A History of Brewing in Holland: 900–1900. Economy, Technology and the State. ISBN 9004120378
- Unger, R. W. (2004) Beer in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. ISBN 0812219996
- Van den Steen, J. (2016) Ale Speciale Belge. ISBN 9401405867
- Verberg, S. Medieval Mead and Beer. Experimental brewing with Medieval flair
https://medievalmeadandbeer.wordpress.com/ - Verberg, S. (2018) The Rise and Fall of Gruit. Brewery History, 174
http://www.breweryhistory.com/journal/archive/174/index.html - Webster, I. (2018) Brewing in Burton upon Trent. ISBN 9781445670553
- Дуров, И.Г. (2014) Производство и обеспечение пивом кораблей Балтийского флота при Петре Великом. Военно-исторический журнал
http://history.milportal.ru/proizvodstvo-i-obespechenie-pivom-korablej-baltijskogo-flota-pri-petre-velikom/