Obviously, the only way to find out was to go on the biggest pub crawl ever. Drinking in more than three hundred bars. in thirteen different countries, Pete puts on a stone in weight and does irrecoverable damage to his health in the pursuit of saloon-bar enlightenment. This is not just a book about travel or the fascinating world of beer. but a book about the role of beer in the world and about what it tells us about ourselves. In the course of his journey of discovery. Pete meets a wild cast of bleary-eyed eccentrics and samples legendary brews in legendary establishments from Sydney to Munich to Barnsley.

Acknowledgements xi

1. 'Just the one'

2. 'Los Borrachos'

3. 'Where you find beer, there you find good life'

4. 'A hundred thousand welcomes'

5. 'The smell of freshly poured beer is the smell ofmy country'

6. 'Beervana'

7. 'Mate, are you right?'

8. 'Toriaezu birru'

9. 'Countless thousands of fattened creatures...'

10. '... making themselves objects of derision...'

11. 'Wi'aht it, he's miserable'

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