Strange Tales of Ale

by Martyn Cornell

Winner of Beer Book of the Year at the 2016 British Guild of Beer Writers AwardsThe history of ale and beer is pitted with strange tales. Take the way the RAF made sure British troops received supplies of beer after the D-Day landings in 1944, for example: they filled up the fuel drop-tanks slung below Spitfire fighters with mild and bitter and flew seventy-five gallons at a time over to the makeshift landing strips in Normandy.Then there's the Great...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1445647974
• ISBN13: 9781445647975
• Release Date: July 2015
• Publisher: Amberley Publishing
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.0" x 7.9"