Brewology: An Illustrated Dictionary for Beer Lovers

by Mark Brewer

As Mark Brewer explains in his introduction, "Beer is one of the oldest beverages known to man . . . and woman! In fact women were the first brewers since one of their primary responsibilities involved cooking. Years ago beer was considered a food as well as a drink. Beer provided many of the calories needed for one's daily diet. Dating back all the way to the fifth millennium BC, beer was recorded by the ancient Egyptian scribes, who also created an extra hieroglyph specifically for “brewer.” Historians tell us that beer was used as a method to compensate laborers who were building the pyramids. Perhaps more importantly, if an Egyptian man offered a woman a sip of his brew, they were betrothed."Starting with an introduction to the history of beer, this A–Z dictionary takes a humorous looks at the various types of beer and common verbiage associated with it while educating the reader in the process. Covering everything from Abbey to Aging, Hops to Head Retention, and Skunky to Stout, Mark Brewer's Brewology is perfect for beer lovers everywhere.Skyhorse Publishing, along with our Good Books and Arcade imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of cookbooks, including books on juicing, grilling, baking, frying, home brewing and winemaking, slow cookers, and cast iron cooking. We’ve been successful with books on gluten-free cooking, vegetarian and vegan cooking, paleo, raw foods, and more. Our list includes French cooking, Swedish cooking, Austrian and German cooking, Cajun cooking, as well as books on jerky, canning and preserving, peanut butter, meatballs, oil and vinegar, bone broth, and more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

Genres: Reference, Beer

231 pages, Kindle Edition

First published June 2, 2015

About the author

Mark Brewer is an entrepreneur and an adventurer who has traveled extensively, and his novels draw considerably on his own experiences. As a freelance journalist in the 1970s Brewer lived and traveled in South America and Africa. His travels in the West Indies as well as his close observation of the drug trade on Colombia’s fabled Guajira coast provide much of the color and excitement in the smuggling tale, Windward Passage (Crown 1978), which is based on a true story. In Africa, Brewer worked and traveled throughout central and southern Africa reporting on the political turmoil and guerilla warfare of the Rhodesian civil war, which ultimately created the new nation of Zimbabwe, all of which was background for his epic novel Bembezani (Freundlich Books 1984).

Returning to the United States in 1980 Brewer retired from journalism and founded Washita Oil & Gas, a natural gas exploration and development company headquartered in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Washita has been a notable success and remains Brewer’s primary business interest. Brewer also avidly played rugby football, which he learned in Rhodesia, and he played five seasons with the San Francisco Rugby Club, for which he was a team captain and club president. His most recent novel, Up & Under: Rugby vs Life, an absorbing drama set amidst the hard living milieu of club rugby, draws both on Brewer’s rugby adventures and his journalism career.

Mark Brewer lives on a small ranch in Northern California, where he and his wife have raised two children, now in college, and he tends a vineyard and indulges in a variety of sports.

Reviews

[Tami Kendall · Rating 3 out of 5]

I learned a few things for sure. Fun illustrations, too.