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Guinness : the 250-year quest for the perfect pint / Bill Yenne.

By: Material type: TextPublication details: Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons, c2007.Description: xxii, 250 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780470120521 (cloth)
  • 0470120525 (cloth)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 338.7/6634209417 22
LOC classification:
  • HD9397.I74 G859 2007
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Contents:
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.
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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.

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