Lonely Planet's Global Beer Tour (Lonely Planet Food)

Great book full of beer spots around the world. Would recommend to those looking for some beer knowledge around the world or looking for a book to display on a coffee table. Would be a great gift, as well!

Interesting coffee table for the beer lover.

Entertaining book that covers the best spots, including places to see around the recommended breweries, should be great for travel.

Beer tourism is growing in popularity. As a beer writer myself, I have noticed a strong increase in the topic of beer travel and I often see brewery visits listed among the things to do when I visit most any destination. Lonely Planet’s Global Beer Tour is a book dedicated to this new face of tourism, guiding the reader on a tour of the world, one brewery at a time.Global Beer Tour is like a combination reference guide and reading volume, but it leans a little more toward the reference end. The book is organized by continent, and then alphabetical by country. Within each country, it lists some of the most popular, unique, or otherwise interesting breweries for tourists. It could be a brewery with critically- acclaimed beer, a brewery steeped in history, or a brewery with some sort of unique feature. The book includes many of the world’s greatest breweries, complete with a summary of the brewery’s offerings, a short bio, and a recommend list of things to do nearby.One of this book’s strongest points is the illustrations and I like that the guide contains at least one picture for every featured brewery. It’s always helpful to see what things are like and the pictures do make a difference. The organization is useful, too, because it sorts first by continent, then by country. The foreign travel section is nice because travelers can quickly turn to the part of the globe in which they are visiting and lookup breweries to visit. The sorting of the United States breweries, which are listed alpha by city, would have been better had it been sorted first by region, and then by city, but it’s still useful like it is. Oh, and the things to do nearby is a good idea because it helps lead tourists to other places of interest that are not focused on beer, but are certainly worth seeing.Where Global Beer Tour falters a bit is with the actual entries themselves. The amount of information on each brewery is far too brief- only a couple short paragraphs, in some instances. This isn’t enough to really get to know a brewery on a personal level and to entice me to want to visit. But I think the greatest problem I have with Global Beer Tour is the lack of breweries covered and nowhere is this clearer then with the United States. The book highlights some of the best- known breweries in America’s most popular beer cities, but far too many are overlooked. Yes, they covered the super heavyweights like San Diego, Denver, and Portland, Oregon. But cities like Philadelphia, Milwaukee, and others receive no mention at all. And when you consider the thousands of operating breweries in the United States, the fact that only about thirty- six are highlighted in this book, well, it just leaves you yearning for more.Overall, however, I cannot say that Global Beer Tour is bad book because it isn’t. There is still some useful information here and the pictures are helpful. The writing is good as well and I like that the guide tries its best to cover a diverse set of breweries in different sections of the world. The low number of breweries receiving coverage and the scant amount of information on some of them makes the book less appealing than it would otherwise be, but there is enough good to give this book a middle rating and small recommendation.

This book may inspire you to take a beer-cation. Due its scope it’s hardly an in depth look at any particular countries beer scene but treat it as a start point. After reading this I feel like another visit to Germany. Read the Kindle version. Plenty of colour pics.

Very good read

This book is OK but they have missed a lot of key breweries.

Este é o livro perfeito para quem já ama cerveja e também para quem quer se tonar um expert na bebida. Ao longo de centenas de páginas ricamente ilustradas, o livro apresenta um panorama completo, aborda as principais escolas cervejeiras do mundo.

Good book, I get many ideas for travels with this book, It's so interesting and into book are many information about beers and countries