Guinness: the 250-year quest for the perfect pint / Bill Yenne
2007, 1st Edition. Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons. Near fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #337450
Physical description: 275 pages, illustrations. Contents: Origins -- Arthur Guinness, brewer -- A family business -- Generations and dynasties -- Bottlers and the export trade -- Building sales while building rails -- A public company -- The Guinness world travellers -- To the ends of the earth, and Manchester, too -- War at home and abroad -- Trouble, triumph, and the toucan -- Brewed in Britain and America, too -- World War II -- The postwar years -- Great men and great ideas -- A family business at two hundred -- Nitrogenation, the really great idea -- A lager called Harp -- Into Africa, Malaysia, and beyond -- Diversification and expansion -- The watershed decade -- A widget in the pint -- A growing company and the perfect pint -- Guinness in the twenty-first century -- Inside the gate with the master brewer -- Epilogue: the world's greatest beer. Subjects: Guinness family. Guinness (Firm) History. Brewing industry Ireland History. Brewing industry Great Britain History. Brewing industry. Genre: History. Illustrated.
Price: €12.95