Combine your thirst for great British travel and good quality beer with this refreshing guide to 30 of Britains best beer scenes. With a foreword by Marverine Cole, award-winning journalist, broadcaster and beer sommelier.
The definitive guide to exploring places and drinking good beer - The British Guild of Beer Writers
Lifes too short to drink bad beer or to miss out on this fantastic read! - Marverine Cole
The British have always championed ale, and now a new generation are enthusiastically embracing beer, too. Like many of their fellow older beer fans, this new generation of aficionados loves to travel and rediscover home shores. Modern brewers are becoming increasingly creative in their offerings and a growing number of craft beer bars, brewery tap rooms, festivals and micropubs have sprung up in towns and cities across the country, embracing local produce and sustainability.
Beer Breaks in Britain joins the dots between beer and travel, exploring the British beer scene and also suggesting what to do in between pints (halves and thirds). The book focusses on 30 destinations across the country, steering visitors to expert selections including breweries, tap rooms, pubs and bars, beer festivals and circuits, highlighting local brews and live tastings with knowledgeable locals. The book equips readers with everything they need to know to make the most of their visit to the destination delving into each areas history and culture, and natural and built attractions, as well as giving ideas about where to eat and stay; everything youll need for a truly unforgettable trip.
Recenzijas
The definitive guide to exploring places and drinking good beer * The British Guild of Beer Writers * [ A] valuable addition to our library ... The hard work has been done for you in this book -- John Cryne * CAMRA * Lifes too short to drink bad beer or to miss out on this fantastic read! -- Marverine Cole, award-winning journalist, broadcaster and beer sommelier This timely guide penned as British cask and craft enjoys an ongoing revival offers expertly curated itineraries for those who like beer or travel, or indeed both, taking readers to some of Britains loveliest corners. A book worth having to hand for every British trip. -- Sarah Barrell * National Geographic Traveller (UK) * Superb * Daily Record * We need more books that celebrate not only beer, but its place in enjoying a more holistic experience around the UK, and this does a great job of exactly that. -- Melissa Cole Travel broadens the mind especially if youve got a beer in the hand, as this inspirational, educative and thirst-provoking guide from two writers at the top of their game demonstrates. -- Adrian Tierney-Jones, author of A Pub For All Seasons
Papildus informācija
Combine your thirst for great British travel and good quality beer with this refreshing guide to 30 of Britains best beer scenes.
The below 12 locations have already been selected and the final 8 will be finalised as the authors progress with the book's research and writing and in order to ensure a wide geographical spread.
Introduction
1 Brighton
2 Hackney & East London
3 Chester
4 Leeds to Keighley
5 Kent Hop Fields & Thanet
6 Manchester
7 Peak District
8 Norwich & Norfolk
9 Bristol & Bath
10 Birmingham & the Black Country
11 Pembrokeshire and the Gower
12 Edinburgh
Introduction
This will set out the proposition of the book and the reasons for our pick of locations.
Each location chapter will include:
- An overview of the local beer and brewing scene
- An overview of the visitor scene
- Descriptions of breweries that welcome visitors
- Descriptions of the best places to drink beer: pubs, bars, tap rooms etc
- Descriptions of non-beer sights, attractions, and activities in the location
- Descriptions of recommended places to eat and stay, at different price levels
- Box-outs featuring interviews with personalities on the beer and travel scenes, potted histories, quirky stories about the destination and its beer, local pub/bar/tap trails and walks and other subjects arising from our research.
Kate Simon has worked as a journalist in national newspapers and magazines for 40 years. She was the Travel Editor of the Independent on Sunday from 2005 to 2012 and has also written for The Guardian, The Telegraph and The i. She has spent more than a quarter of a century sampling hundreds of tourism experiences around the world, assessing them from a travellers point of view, and has been a judge for both travel writing and tourism industry competitions. Kate is the co-author of two previous books, How To Pack For Any Trip (Lonely Planet, 2016) and Slow Travel Cheshire (Bradt, 2018). She is a co-founder of Equality in Tourism, a charity dedicated to ensuring women have an equal voice in global tourism.??
Phil Mellows is a freelance journalist who has written about beer and pubs for industry and consumer titles for more than 35 years. He has been a judge for The Publican Awards, and later the Great British Pub Awards, since 1998. As a journalist for the Brewery Manual he has closely followed the dramatic developments in the UK beer market during the past decade. His Politics of Drinking blog helps satisfy his obsession with alcohol policy and he has lately become a regular columnist for the hospitality industry newsletter Propel.
