Beer Books

Took a trip to Barnes & Noble the other day. Not a good idea. Starting to not like going there, because I leave without the 30+ books that I wanted to leave with. I haven't even done extensive searching on the internet for other choice books, but there is bound to be some (that and magazines).

Here's a list of all the other awesome books I'd love to add to my collection over the next 5 years:
1) Brewed Awakening, by Joshua Bernstein - I think this goes into the craft beer explosion and how brewing has since evolved.
2) The Beer Trials, by Robin Goldstein - a compilation of blind taste test thoughts and ratings on some of the worlds most popular beers, there is a website here.
3) Vintage Beer, by Patrick Dawson - all about aged and aging beers, the fun high alcohol content beers!
4) Radical Brewing, by Randy Kosher - details how brewing has become more than 5 ingredients and what some of the "radical" brews are that now exist.
5) Great Beers, ed. by Tim Hampson - 700 beers from around the world, novelty.
6) Great American Craft Beer, by Andy Crouch - journalist and beer snob, his book takes you on a tasting tour of American breweries, he has a website here.
7) Home Brew Beer, Greg Hughes - picture heavy basic home brew guide with lots of recipes.
8) Starting Your Own Brewery, by Dick Cantwell - BP (Brewer's Publications) so should be a good guide.
9) The Craft Beer Cookbook, by Jacquelyn Dodd - I wanna learn more about cooking/pairing food with beer.
10) The Beer Book, ed. by Tim Hampson - has a blog, here, and
11) World Beer, ed. by Tim Hampson - this name keeps coming up a lot, an encyclopedic book of over 800 beers from around the world.
12) The World Atlas of Beer, by Tim Webb and Stephen Beaumont - goes country to country in an interesting guide of sorts.
13) The Illustrated Guide to Brewing Beer, by Matthew Shaefer - comprehensive guide to home brewing, might be one of a couple good guides that I could choose from.
14) Home Brew Beyond the Basics, by Mike Karnowski - taking home brewing to the next level, this could be a good choice, all grain brewing included.
15) Extreme Brewing, by Sam Calagione - owner of Dogfish Head, Calagione shows how brewing is going to the extremes and using unusual ingredients and high alcohol levels.
16) The Brewers Apprentice, by Greg Koch & Matt Allyn - craft brewing according to the leaders of today's art, enhances the average knowledge of brewing with master tips.
17) 300 Beers to Try Before You Die! by Roger Protz - top beers according to Protz and his tasting notes, sounds good to me!
18) How to Brew, by John Palmer - one of many, will have to compare this home brewing guide to others.
19) Beer: What to Drink Next, by Michael Larson - a cool novelty book about different styles of beer, specific ones to try and all with cool graphics to help you along, even has a periodic table of beer.
20) Sustainable Home Brewing, by Loftus - I think this talks a lot about yeast and home grown ingredients.
21) Water, by John Palmer & Colin Kaminski - a PB, more in to the science of pH and what makes good beer water.
22) The Brewmasters Bible, by Stephen Snyder - another home brewing do-it-yourself book with lots of recipes.
23) Craft Beer for the Home Brewer, by Michael Agnew - real brews from real breweries adapted for the home brewer, would be really interesting to try some of these someday.
24) The Brewmaster's Table, by Garrett Oliver - every microbrewery needs a brewpub, this book is by the brewmaster at Brooklyn Brewery.
25) 1001 Beers You Must Try Before You Die, by Adrian Tierney-Jones - cool novelty reference book that's fun to have sitting on your coffee table and pore over for hours.
26) Yeast, by Chris White & Jamil Zainasheff - gotta learn about yeast and types and keeping it sterile and vibrant.
27) Make Some Beer, by Erica Shea & Stephen Valand - their journey to several breweries around the country and subsequent recipes of inspired brews for home brewing.
28) IPA, by Mitch Steele - IPA is probably America's number one craft brew style of choice, gotta learn my stuff.
29) The Pocket Beer Companion - novelty quick reference, don't know if I really want this.
30) The Homebrewers Journal - or something like this, to keep track of successes and failures and data along the way.

See? 30 books, and that was at first just a guess until I started number listing them. Anyway, this is also just a hypothetical list and hopefully over the course of a couple more visits to Barnes & Nobles I can spend some time in each book to figure out which I'd really like and those I can let fall to the wayside. If and when I do pick up some books I will try and give a review on this blog. The only book I currently own is Tasting Beer, by Randy Mosher which is a really good broad based introduction to the history of styles, how to taste and suggested brews (to give a brief example of its contents). Also I've been reading one of the guides to home brewing by Dave Miller. I got three out of the library but have not quite gotten through one yet in just over a week.

Read any of these books? What do you think?