Where are the German Books on Beer?
I’ve always found it odd that, in a country as proud of its beer as Germany, so little has been published on the subject. A German bookshop is likely to have 100 or more books on wine, a dozen on whisky and three on beer, if you’re lucky. And two of those will be translations of English works. I only know one book (‘Die Biere Deutschlands’ by Hllhuber and Kaul) which attempts to describe in a serious and objective manner the beers and breweries of the whole country. The best German-language writer about the international beer scene is an Austrian, Conrad Seidl (‘Noch ein Bier’ and ‘Hopfen und Malz’). I’ve yet to find any book written by a German that could speak in any depth or with any authority about foreign beer. There are a few good guides to homebrew pubs and beer gardens in the South of Germany, but the best one I have to Munich pubs was written by an American (Larry Hawthorne’s ‘The Beer Drinker’s Guide to Munich ‘ – an invaluable book for visitors to Munich, especially those wa
