Aaron McConnell

Put it in comic book form, and I will pretty much read about anything, even the history of a beverage that I have only sipped a couple times in my entire life and rejected as tasting godawful. This book isn't godawful, but the reliance on hyperbole, mythology and conspiracy theory makes it of dubious value as a history even while making the early chapters sort of fun. The majority of the book is quite dry in art and writing and descends into a stiffly-illustrated concordance of every mention of beer throughout recorded time. It ends on a rah-rah note about the awesomeness of craft brewing and the golden age of beer in which we now apparently live. It's almost Christmas, so I suppose this wouldn't make a bad bathroom book to give to the beer aficionado in your life you don't know well enough to give a meaningful present.… (mehr)