An essential beer guide in a handy, pocket-sized format. Bitters, lagers, Belgian beers, weissbiers, stouts, porters, fruit beers, and real ales - this ultimate beer guide brings you over 700 examples from 350 worldwide breweries. Each page is packed full of tasting notes and detailed info on each beer as well as revealing the brewing secrets that give each beer its individual character. The handy, travel-friendly format makes it easy to take this with you on your travels - whether it be Munich, Prague or your local. A perfect gift for beer lovers.

Editor-in-Chief Tim Hampson thinks he has one of the best jobs in the world - he is paid to drink beer for a living! A regular broadcaster and writer on beer for many years, he has travelled the world in pursuit of the perfect drink. Chairman of the British Guild of Beer Writers, he wants more people to understand that beer has far greater complexity than wine can ever have. His work appears in The Telegraph, Food & Travel magazine, What's Brewing, Drinks International, Beers of the World, American Brewer, Brewers Guardian, and Morning Advertiser; he has also appeared on BBC Good Food Live and Sky TV.