Guinness: The 250-Year Quest For The Perfect Pint

By Bill Yenne
Published by Wiley, November 07

Guinness Stout has a unique place in global beverage folklore. It’s a beer with a long and colourful history and mythology that maintains a passionate following among beer connoisseurs around the world. Indeed, two billion pints are poured and enjoyed around the world each year. Guinness is also a remarkable family of brewers and entrepreneurs whose story is worthy of legend, and whose name is an integral part of Irish history.

In his new book, Guinness: The 250 Year Quest for the Perfect Pint, famed beverage and beer writer Bill Yenne traces the 250-year history of the family and the brewery...

He follows the family from Arthur Guinness, the entrepreneur patriarch, who became a brewer at age 30 and four years later leased a Dublin brewery for 9,000 years (!), to his son and namesake, who penned the recipe for the legendary black stout. And then there was the third generation Benjamin Lee Guinness, the First Earl of Iveagh, who became the richest man in Ireland selling stout, and who built the family business into the largest brewery in the world. Yenne carries the story through the centuries, up to the present, celebrating the technology and craftsmanship of the brewery today.

About the author
Once referred to by brewpub pioneer Buffalo Bill Owens as "the American Michael Jackson" (the king of English beverage historians, not the king of pop), Bill Yenne has written extensively on beer and brewing history for two decades. He is the San Francisco-based author of more than 40 books, and a member of the American Society of Journalists & Authors (ASJA) and the American Book Producers Association (ABPA).

Hardback;  £13.99/€18.80;  ISBN 9780470120521

For more information, or to request an extract, competition copies or an interview with the author, please contact: Caroline Baines - E: cbaines@wiley.co.uk, T: 01243 770674