"We love CAMRA and Roger Protz's book, Life on the Hop: Memoirs of a Career in Beer, is an amusing romp without the usual big-turns jargon." Metro (London)
"A wonderful tour around the beer, stretching way beyond the shores, with the most interesting chapters tracing the the brewing giants' machinations and the craft brewers' triumphs against the odds." Manchester Evening News
"A witty and engaging romp through the slightly crazy world of beer and the people that inhabit it." Beers of the World
A Life on the Hop
Memoirs From a Career in Beer
By Roger Protz
Published 9 March 2009
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A Life on the Hop - Memoirs from a Career in Beer recounts the entertaining highlights and challenging low points of Roger Protz's busy and influential career in beer. Well known and admired within the world of beer, Protz has written many indispensible books on the subject and these memoirs will provide fascinating reading not just to CAMRA members but to all lovers of good beer.
During his career, Protz has travelled to most of the great beer-drinking nations - from Britain, through Europe to Russia, Mexico and the USA. Starting in Britain in the 1970s, during the early days of the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA), he was involved from early on in the battle to save traditional beer from giant brewers.
The book includes entertaining anecdotes from many trips to other parts of the world, including visits to Belgium. In St Petersburg, he sought out the traditional beers, such as Baltic Stouts and Porters, which are under threat from global brewers. During many visits to the USA he saw for himself the micro-brewing revolution bringing taste and flavour back to a country dominated by bland national brands Among other experiences, he also recounts an hilarious trip on the QE2 for a beer tasting afloat!
Author: Roger Protz
A campaigner, broadcaster and author of more than 18 ground-breaking books about beer and brewing. He appears regularly on radio and TV and contributes to the Guardian, the Morning Advertiser, CAMRA's newspaper What's Brewing and the website
www.beer-pages.com.
Twice winner of the Glenfiddich Drink Writer of the Year Award, in 2004 Roger won a Lifetime Achievement Award from the British Guild of Beer Writers.
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