Saturday, February 02, 2019

The Comic Book Story of Beer:

The Comic Book Story of Beer by: Hennessey and Smith art by McConnell
Non-fiction: History, Food, Graphic Novel 170 pages
Physical Book Count: 5
Book Count: 9

I have never before read a history book on food with such anti-Catholic bigotry and lack of self awareness.  There was a section that said that early Christians followed Roman anti-beer bias by forcing wine into their religion followed a few pages later by a section on Trappist/abbey ales.  Like it went straight from insisting that Christians were anti-beer to explaining all about how all the monks and other early Christians made beer all the time.   Then it praised Martin Luther and called the pilgrims "Godly men and women" who brought beer to the new world.  The beer info otherwise was basic and ended sounding like an ad for beer. 

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