Guinness : the 250-year quest for the perfect pint /
Bill Yenne.
- Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons, c2007.
- xxii, 250 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-238) and index.
Origins -- Arthur Guinness, brewer -- A family business -- Generations and dynasties -- Bottlers and the export trade -- Building sales while building rails -- A public company -- The Guinness world travellers -- To the ends of the earth, and Manchester, too -- War at home and abroad -- Trouble, triumph, and the toucan -- Brewed in Britain and America, too -- World War II -- The postwar years -- Great men and great ideas -- A family business at two hundred -- Nitrogenation, the really great idea -- A lager called Harp -- Into Africa, Malaysia, and beyond -- Diversification and expansion -- The watershed decade -- A widget in the pint -- A growing company and the perfect pint -- Guinness in the twenty-first century -- Inside the gate with the master brewer -- Epilogue : the world's greatest beer.