Guinness
Subtitle: the 250-year quest for the perfect pint
By: Bill Yenne.
Publisher: J. Wiley & Sons; John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Hoboken, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9780470120521
Subjects: Guinness family; Guinness (Firm) -- History; Brewing industry -- Ireland -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Origins; title: Arthur Guinness, brewer; title: A family business; title: Generations and dynasties; title: Bottlers and the export trade; title: Building sales while building rails; title: A public company; title: The Guinness world travellers; title: To the ends of the earth, and Manchester too; title: War at home and abroad; title: Trouble, triumph and the toucan; title: Brewed in Britain, and America too; title: World war II; title: The postwar years; title: Great men and great ideas; title: A family business at two hundred; title: Nitrogenation, the really great idea; title: A lager called Harp; title: Into Africa, Malaysia and beyond; title: Diversification and expansion; title: The watershed decade; title: A widget in the pint; title: A growing company and the perfect pint; title: Guinness in the twenty-first century; title: Inside the gate with the master brewer; title: Epilogue : the world's greatest beer.