India Pale Ale is pure gold in a glass: a semi-mythical beer that was specially invented, in the 18th century, to travel half way around the world, and arrive in perfect condition for a long, cold drink on an Indian verandah. For the men and women of the British Raj, sick of warm madeira wine and the questionable local drinking water, IPA was a safe, clean drink - and a morale-boosting taste of home. For the first time in 140 years, a keg of unfermented Burton IPA has been taken to India by canal and tall ship, around the Cape of Good Hope; and the man carrying Britain's best beer is Pete Brown, Britain's best beer writer. Weaving first-class travel writing with assured comedy, a raucous history of the hard-partying Raj and a fantastic sense of adventure, 'Hops and Glory' is, quite simply, one man's quest for the beer that built the British Empire.
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Pete Brown was born in 1968 in Barnsley, South Yorkshire. Since 1991 he has worked in advertising, specialising in marketing beer. He has appeared regularly on television as a beer expert, writes on beer for a variety of publications and is the author of Man Walks into a Pub and the award-winning travel book Three Sheets to the Wind. He lives in London.
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