The Secret Life of Beer!: Exposed: Legends, Lore Little-Known Facts by Alan D. EamesMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
This was a nice collection of verse (maybe finding an apogees with Gloucester's 16th Century beer tourist poet John Taylor), quotes, aphorisms, and trivia about beer in history. The "lore"
is mostly chronological from remote antiquity to the 20th Century. Some themes that stood out include the cross-cultural connection to magic and the diving with beer and other "spirits". Also, the pre-hops beers of Pict heather beer, Egyptian brews served with bittering condiments, early Western Hemishphere concoctions like chicha, and more. Actually, I would probably have given this 4 stars if not for the typographical choice of blurry font often in shades like dark yellow on burnt sienna paper...
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