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Beer Knowledge Box : An Essential Guide For A Deep Understanding of Beer
Beer Knowledge Box is a concise beer education guide that clearly explains beer styles, tasting, brewing, and beer and food matching for curious drinkers and enthusiasts.
Designed to be both accessible and authoritative, it demystifies beer without jargon, helping readers understand how beer is made, why it tastes the way it does, and different styles around the world. Whether you’re new to beer or looking to deepen your knowledge, this book offers a practical, enjoyable way to learn.
Covering everything from ingredients and brewing fundamentals to flavour, aroma, and cultural context, Beer Knowledge Box works as both a quick reference and a book to dip into again and again.
Inside you’ll main beer stylesHow brewing ingredients shape flavour and aromaHow to taste and describe beer with confidenceKey beer terminology explained clearlyHow to match beer with foodHow glassware shape and design affects the drinking experience
Ideal lovers and enthusiastsBeginners wanting a clear introductionHospitality and drinks professionalsStudents of brewing, food, and drinkAnyone curious about beer cultureBeer is the world’s favourite alcoholic drink, consumed in almost every country where alcohol is legal. Begetter of pleasure, sociability, and companionship. It’s not just the taste and diversity of beer, or the buzz it bestows that makes it so extraordinary but it's also beer’s superpower as an egalitarian refreshment that knows no borders. It is a uniting force and friendship builder, and the way to start a party. That’s how it has been for thousands of years ever since that first person sampled a liquid containing fermented cereal sugar and saw stars.
Your teacher for this book was Britain’s first accredited beer sommelier of the year, Britain’s first accredited cider sommelier, a former drinks’ educator of the year, and founder of the School of Booze. At the School of Booze homework can be done at the pub. Where better to study beer? So, take Beer Knowledge Box to a favoured spot and let’s make a start on your journey to beer enlightenment then you can show off to your associates about being a knowledge box!
Designed to be both accessible and authoritative, it demystifies beer without jargon, helping readers understand how beer is made, why it tastes the way it does, and different styles around the world. Whether you’re new to beer or looking to deepen your knowledge, this book offers a practical, enjoyable way to learn.
Covering everything from ingredients and brewing fundamentals to flavour, aroma, and cultural context, Beer Knowledge Box works as both a quick reference and a book to dip into again and again.
Inside you’ll main beer stylesHow brewing ingredients shape flavour and aromaHow to taste and describe beer with confidenceKey beer terminology explained clearlyHow to match beer with foodHow glassware shape and design affects the drinking experience
Ideal lovers and enthusiastsBeginners wanting a clear introductionHospitality and drinks professionalsStudents of brewing, food, and drinkAnyone curious about beer cultureBeer is the world’s favourite alcoholic drink, consumed in almost every country where alcohol is legal. Begetter of pleasure, sociability, and companionship. It’s not just the taste and diversity of beer, or the buzz it bestows that makes it so extraordinary but it's also beer’s superpower as an egalitarian refreshment that knows no borders. It is a uniting force and friendship builder, and the way to start a party. That’s how it has been for thousands of years ever since that first person sampled a liquid containing fermented cereal sugar and saw stars.
Your teacher for this book was Britain’s first accredited beer sommelier of the year, Britain’s first accredited cider sommelier, a former drinks’ educator of the year, and founder of the School of Booze. At the School of Booze homework can be done at the pub. Where better to study beer? So, take Beer Knowledge Box to a favoured spot and let’s make a start on your journey to beer enlightenment then you can show off to your associates about being a knowledge box!
108 pages, Kindle Edition
Published May 27, 2025
About the author
Jane Peyton
26 books1 followerJane Peyton writes non-fiction under her own name and has published books about alcoholic drinks, architecture & design, and British traditions.
She writes fiction under her pen name B.A. Summer and is the author of the magical realism romp 'Sole Brethren: If The Shoe Fits’ (to be published February 2023).
Jane was the UK’s first accredited Pommelier (cider sommelier) and Britain's first Beer Sommelier of the Year. She is a former Imbibe Magazine Drinks Educator of the Year. Jane is the instigator and driving force of the UK’s annual national beer day, Beer Day Britain (June 15th). For her beer work she was awarded a Lifetime Achievement from Britain’s Parliamentary Beer Group, and has won several other professional awards. She has won gold and silver medals for her beer writing. Although she never earned a Blue Peter badge, she is a Guinness World Records holder for hosting the world’s largest beer tasting tutorial in 2016 when 1, 256 people took part at a venue in London, UK.
She is the founder of the School of Booze – a training, education, events company, and consultancy specializing in alcoholic drinks and their no & low alcohol equivalents.
Jane loves pubs and considers herself very fortunate that her profession means she spends a lot of time in them!
She writes fiction under her pen name B.A. Summer and is the author of the magical realism romp 'Sole Brethren: If The Shoe Fits’ (to be published February 2023).
Jane was the UK’s first accredited Pommelier (cider sommelier) and Britain's first Beer Sommelier of the Year. She is a former Imbibe Magazine Drinks Educator of the Year. Jane is the instigator and driving force of the UK’s annual national beer day, Beer Day Britain (June 15th). For her beer work she was awarded a Lifetime Achievement from Britain’s Parliamentary Beer Group, and has won several other professional awards. She has won gold and silver medals for her beer writing. Although she never earned a Blue Peter badge, she is a Guinness World Records holder for hosting the world’s largest beer tasting tutorial in 2016 when 1, 256 people took part at a venue in London, UK.
She is the founder of the School of Booze – a training, education, events company, and consultancy specializing in alcoholic drinks and their no & low alcohol equivalents.
Jane loves pubs and considers herself very fortunate that her profession means she spends a lot of time in them!
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