My Books
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World Atlas of Beer: The Essential Guide to the Beers of the World (2021)
Tim Webb and I travelled ceaselessly and worked tirelessly to bring you our best World Atlas of Beer yet! Covering more than 120 countries in 272 pages, it is the definitive guide to what’s happening in the brewing world today, from the remarkably flourishing brewing industry of France to the Amazon-influenced beers of Brazil and the thriving yet challenging scene in the United States to the traditionalism of the Czech Republic, all accompanied by a multitude of fascinating and illuminating maps, charts and eye-popping photos. As the back cover states, it truly is “a completely new edition for a new world of beer.”
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Canadian Spirits: The Essential Cross-Country Guide to Distilleries, Their Spirits, and Where to Imbibe Them (2019)
Over drinks one snowy evening in Toronto, Christine Sismondo and I decided that it would be a good idea to chronicle Canada’s rapidly developing craft distilling industry, and so set the stage for the research and writing of Canadian Spirits. What we didn’t realize at the time was that the industry would grow by almost 50% in the time it took us to write the book, raising the book’s content to profiles of some 160 diverse spirits producers, from the massive Hiram-Walker distillery in Windsor, Ontario, to the pioneering Glenora Inn & Distillery in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, and Vancouver’s tiny Odd Society Spirits. We also tasted and reviewed up to four brands for each distillery, and sampled a whole lot more we didn’t have the space to discuss in the book!
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Will Travel for Beer: 101 Remarkable Journeys Every Beer Lover Should Experience (2018)
A large part of my life for the past three decades has been about travelling for beer, so one morning I woke up and thought I should write a book about the very best of my experiences. This book is the result, filled with 101 exceptional beer journeys from Portland, Oregon, to Bangkok and Squamish, British Columbia to Finland’s northern Sahti Belt, detailing some of the world’s best and most unexpected places for beer drinking, from the Andechs monastery outside of Munich to a helicopter ride in the Australian outbackFinland’s northern Sahti Belt.
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Best Beers: the Indispensable Guide to the World's Beers (2017)
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Pocket Beer: the Indispensable Guide to the World's Beers (2017)
This is the U.K. version of Best Beers. Same text and same reviews, just a different title and cover. No need to get both, unless you really want to…
Buy: UK
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The Beer and Food Companion (2015)
