num_pages: 387
description: In Man Walks into a Pub Pete Brown takes us on a well-lubricated pub crawl through the amazing story of beer from the first sacred sip of Ancient Egyptian bouza to the last pint of lager on a Friday night.It's an extraordinary tale of yeast-obsessed monks and teetotal prime ministers; of how pale ale fuelled an Empire and weak bitter won a world war; of exploding breweries a bear in a yellow nylon jacket and a Canadian bloke who changed the drinking habits of a nation. It's also the story of the rise of the pub from humble origins through an epic thousand-year struggle to survive misunderstanding bad government and misguided commerce. The history of beer in Britain is a social history of the nation itself full of catastrophe heroism and an awful lot of hangovers.
language: English
title: Man Walks into a Pub: A Sociable History of Beer
publisher: Pan Books