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Thursday, October 21, 2010

Beer Book Survey

Beer books have been on my mind a lot lately. For one, I've been receiving a lot for review, and the breadth of topics as much as the number make me wonder if we're not seeing a surge in popularity. This interests me on an urgently personal level, too, because I'm in the process of trying to nail down a project or two myself. Which brings us to the following 3-question, 30-second survey below. The people who come to this blog are exactly the target audience for beer books, so I'm interested (keenly interested): do you own or plan to buy books, and which kinds? If you have thirty seconds to spare, I'd most appreciate it.

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9 comments:

  1. I kept looking past "seven or more" for the next button. I must have something like 60 or 70.

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  2. Alan, I was thinking that if you own seven or more, you are in the avid camp. If you own seventy, you are dangerous.

    (I own a modest 20 or so--shifty, not dangerous.)

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  3. I'm in the 15-20 range. They're really the only non-Kindle books I buy now.

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  4. I'm around 10, but I agree with Billy that they're among the only books I'll actually buy new for full price at this point.

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  5. Buying books cuts into my beer money.

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  6. I'm recent to craft beer; <18 months. The previous two score and nine years [ago] 'I was a beer cameleon' ie, I drank the local brew. Often quality beer.

    This morning I purchased Andy Crouch's 'Great American Craft Beer: . . .' online for a self birthday gift; based on your critique. I downloaded a soft copy of John Palmer's 'How To Brew', late June, but, have made little progress.

    I am wont to splinter beers into different categories; hence, I am interested in the technical description of a beer.

    I would buy a book from any number of beer bloggers . . . I am reminded to purchase a Pete Brown book.

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  7. Thanks for the bonus comments, folks--they are quite useful, too.

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  8. Please tell us you are writing a book :)

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  9. Finally catching up on my RSS feeds and the survey is closed. Dunno what the questions were, but I'm an avid beer book guy - I'm a librarian and homebrewer for starters. Possibly my favorite is Mosher's Tasting Beer, currently enjoying "Wild Brews" by Sparrow, and have a number of homebrew books - Papazian classics and Homebrewer's Bible most notably.

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