Jonny Garrett, the multi-award-winning journalist, author and filmmaker who is best known as the founder of Youtube’s Craft Beer Channel, which has over 160,000 subscribers and 13 million views, will be welcomed to the Hop Inn in Brigg for a Meet the Author event on Wednesday 18th December at 7pm.
The event will surround his new book, The Meaning of Beer, taking the reader through a fascinating history of beer making and how it has shaped Britain today, posing the question of whether beer is one of our most important inventions.
Full of fascinating facts and insights, it is already a bestseller.
Jonny Garrett has written four books with A Year in Beer (CAMRA Books, 2021) winning the Fortnum & Mason Drinks Book of the Year, British Guild of Food Writers Drinks Book of the Year, and British Guild of Beer Writers Book of the Year. He was also voted British Beer Writer of the Year in 2019 and 2022.
Tickets are available to book on a Pay What You’d Like basis and should be reserved in advance either from The Rabbit Hole or via this link.
About The Meaning of Beer:
What’s the oldest and most consumed alcoholic beverage on earth? BEER, of course. And it might just be our most important invention. Since its creation 13,000 years ago, our love of beer has shaped everything from religious ceremonies to advertising, and architecture to bioengineering.
The people who built the pyramids were paid in ale, the first fridge was built for beer not food, bacteria was discovered while investigating sour beer, Germany’s beer halls hosted Hitler’s rise to power, and brewer’s yeast may yet be the answer to climate change.
In The Meaning of Beer, award-winning beer writer Jonny Garrett tells the stories of these incredible human moments and inventions, taking readers to some of the best-known beer destinations in the world – Munich and Oktoberfest, Carlsberg Brewery’s historic laboratory, St Louis and the home of Budweiser – as well as those lesser-known, from a 5,000 year old brewery in the Egyptian desert to Arctic Svalbard, home to the world’s most northerly pub. Ultimately, this is not a book about how we made beer, but how beer made us.
