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Hops and Glory: One Man's Search for the Beer That Built the British Empire (Hardcover)

by Pete Brown (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 288 pages
  • Publisher: Macmillan (5 Jun 2009)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0230706355
  • ISBN-13: 978-0230706354
  • Product Dimensions: 22 x 14.4 x 4.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 7,009 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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'The tale of his travels and the alcoholic history of the Raj is big beery fun.' --The Times

`A meaty tome and give good value as Brown is both an engaging and witty writer, creating an entertaining work combing travelogue with a decent bit of historical context. It contains a number of beer facts which I will find useful to have at my elbow and is a more than welcome addition to his body of work.'
--London Drinker


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'Covers everything from the definitive history of Indian Pale Ale to the chaotic recreation of its 30,000 mile sea journey.'
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Vastly entertaining history of IPA, 15 Jun 2009
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This book is many things:

A great travel book which makes you want to visit to places you never considered before. Like Santos, or Burton...
A well researched entertaining history of that most famous of beers, India Pale Ale.
A mind numbing description of the atrocities and excesses of the "Honorable" East India Company whose antics should make any British person deeply ashamed.
A very very laugh-out-loud funny book.

A great read, buy it.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A thrilling read from first page to last, 1 Jul 2009
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Brown takes you on a wonderful journey both through history and in person that is a real roller coaster of thrills and spills (literally at times!).

The book delivers all that it promises and is already my pick of the year!
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2 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars One man and his hog(shead), 5 Jul 2009
The book starts very brightly, combining a broad-ranging riff on the beer, the history of brewing and the colonial history of India with an entertaining account of starting a journey halfway around the world.

Unfortunately, once he joins a container vessel in Brazil half way through his journey, the author seems to become becalmed, communicating a boring experience in a boring way, and the book doesn't really recover. There are no particularly interesting characters in India and the grand finale is a damp squib.

Definitely worth getting to read the first half, but not a great travel book.
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