Alcohol and Drugs History Society

Drug Use and Addiction in War

Tom Langdale wrote this short article, dated July 9, 2009, for High 5 Men's Magazine.

As German beer sales decline, cheap brews displace craft beers

Beer sales are sharply down in Germany.  It's the quality craft beers that have taken the hit.  In contrast, mediocre beer sold at supermarkets at low prices without advertising is flourishing.  For more, see here.

India pale ale (book)

Pete Brown, Hops and Glory: One Man's Search for the Beer that Built the British Empire (London: Macmillan, 2009).  The original India pale ale.

Scandinavian brewing history (articles)

Most of the British publication Brewery History, no. 121 (2009) consists of a special Scandinavian theme.

Siri Aanstad, "Introduction: the Scandinavian Brewing Industry" (26-28)

Siri Aanstad, "A Small, Global Adventure: Mapping Norwegian Beer Exports in the 19th Century" (29-50)

Martin Jes Iversen and Andrew Arnold, "Carlsberg: From Exporter to an Integrated Multinational Enterprise" (51-62)

Martin Jes Iversen, "Carlsberg and the Cartels" (63-67)

Peter Sandberg, "The Pressure of New Innovations on Transnational Cartels and Trade Organisations: The Tin Can and the Increased Competition between the Swedish and Danish Brewing Industries since the 1950s" (68-85)

Sport, Beer, and Gender (book)

Sport, Beer, and Gender: Promotional Culture and Contemporary Social Life. Wenner , Lawrence A. and Steven J. Jackson, eds. (Series: Popular culture and everyday life v. 17) New York: Peter Lang, 2009, 317 p. Here's the link to the publishers webpage for the book.

Upscale craft beers as the "new wine"

The Washington Times reports on upscale craft beers, often high in alcoholic content, that aspire to be America's "new wine."  Now comprising only four per cent of the national beer market, the craft beer brewers hope that in five years their beers will constitute seven or even 7.5 per cent of the market.  For more, see here.

Wine, beer, and other alcoholic beverages (book)

Patrick E. McGovern, Uncorking the Past: The Quest for Wine, Beer, and Other Alcoholic Beverages (University of California Press, forthcoming 2009).  By an anthropologist who is an authority on ancient alcoholic drinks.

Guinness beer (book)

Stephen Mansfield, The Quest for God and Guinness: A Biography of the Beer that Changed the World (Thomas Nelson, forthcoming 2009).  

Merchants of inebriation (conference papers)

World History Association conference, Salem, Massachusetts, June 25-28, 2009.

session, Merchants of Inebriation: The Global Distribution of Alcoholic Beverages

Jai Kharbanda (Queen Mary College, University of London), Algave-based Drinks in Mexico and Abroad after the Conquest

Malcolm Purinton (independent scholar), Colonial Beer: The Birth of India Pale Ale

Connie R. Hudgeons (Albuqueque high school), Inbibing History: Two Lessons about Beverages in World Trade

Two Philosophical Compilations

Allhoff, Fritz, (Ed.). Wine and Philosophy: A Symposium on Thinking and Drinking. Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2008., 308 p. Publisher's link is here.
    About twenty articles under the following sections - The Art & Culture of Wine, Tasting & Talking about Wine, Wine & Its Critics, The Beauty of Wine, The Metaphysics of Wine, and The Politics and Economics of Wine.

Hales, Steven, (Ed.). Beer and Philosophy: The Unexamined Beer Isn't Worth Drinking. Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2007., 248 p. Publisher's link is here.
    About fifteen articles under the following sections - Part I: The Art of the Beer, Part II: The Ethics of Beer: Pleasures, Freedom, and Character, Part  III:  The Metaphysics and Epistemology of Beer, Part IV: Beer in the History of Philosophy