Beer: What to Drink Next: Featuring the Beer Select-O-Pedia

by Michael Larson

A Beer Lover's Guide to More than 250 Craft Beers, Ales, and Lagers  Find new brews to enjoy with the easy-to-use What to Drink Next . Simply look up whatever you like drinking on the Beer Select-O-Pedia—a periodic table of beer styles. Ninety different kinds of beer are organized by country of origin, leading you to a color coded chapter full of suggestions of what to drink next—Belgian Trappist beer, German lagers, British and Irish ales, all manner of American beers, plus some unique category-busting hybrid creations. Each style includes a brief history, a description, three beers to try, and suggested food pairings; there's even a color diagram defining the beer's “atomic structure”—with tasting notes, fun facts, and recommended breweries.”
 

Genres: Beer

224 pages, Paperback

First published March 4, 2014

Reviews

[Drew · Rating 4 out of 5]

I’m a craft beer enthusiast, so I was excited to open this book and learn more about it. The book does a great job of explaining every different style of beer you could possibly find across the globe.

Each style of beer is given a detailed (but not too lengthy) description of the style, flavor, and history of how that style originated. The book even tells you the appropriate glassware from which to drink each beer, and three brewery suggestions to try.

While the book was fun to flip through and read, it is definitely more of a “reference” style book. While I did enjoy the food pairing suggestions for each style of beer, I found the “atomic structure” diagrams of each beer to be gimmicky and simply a page filler.

Overall, a great book for a beer lover, and a great reference to go back to whenever you need some guidance on what beer to drink next.

[John G. · Rating 4 out of 5]

Incredibly useful and well organized resource on understanding and selecting quality craft beers. This is a very comprehensive book on all the different styles of beer and their unique characteristics. This book has enhanced my beer and brewery knowledge, great pickup!

[Doug · Rating 4 out of 5]

A very entertaining way to review beer styles. The author breaks beers into four categories: English & Irish, German Ales, German Lagers, American inspired brews. Each includes a general description of the style, characteristic flavors, historical info, and three suggested examples. Recommended food pairings are included with each style (though for malt liquor he suggests people drink it just to get drunk.) A good introduction to beers from these regions.

[Gerald Kinro · Rating 5 out of 5]

Makes choices simple. This book classifies beer according to regional origin conveniently placed in a periodic table. There is a listing of representative brands and a brief flavor profile of each.

[Steven Pilling · Rating 4 out of 5]

Its great okay no use if you dont like Beer but its got a great format some cool use of graphics and descriptions and it made me want to drink a beer

[Jessica · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great beer book, goes page by page of pretty much every style you can think of. I bet this will be a great reference through the years.

[Paul · Rating 5 out of 5]

A helpful and easy to read intro to beer styles. Recommended for those who are new to beer drinking or simply want to branch out and explore various styles.