(For the record, I am NOT!)

Thanks for taking the effort to get the link to his attention. I had no idea Mr. Oliver was on Facebook.

Troy

Just refer to him as “Gary” from now on

C

Thanks for your comment. I’m the proud owner of very well-worn copies of the first two editions of Ms. Robinson’s OCtW, and send my best wishes for the completion of that monumental task. I can’t think of better brewer and writer for the job.

Cheers,

Dave

beerwineandwhisky.com

Thank you very much for your kind comments. It’s gratifying that people have enjoyed “The Brewmaster’s Table” as much as they have and they continue to find it a useful resource. That said, I definitely take your comments on board – no book of this sort is entirely timeless, and the world of beer changes rapidly. My feeling is that the essentials of what the book covers have changed little, but the “beer scene” has evolved considerably, especially in the U.S. Any new edition would certainly have to include more exceptional American breweries, but also new breweries from Denmark to Italy.

While I’d love to update “The Brewmaster’s Table” one of these days, I designed the book to cover breweries that I thought would still be around for at least 10 or 15 years. And the principles of beer and food pairing won’t have changed – there are just more beers to play with.

In the meantime, as someone pointed out above, I’m engaged as the editor-in-chief of “The Oxford Companion to Beer” for Oxford University Press. If you’ve seen Robinson’s wine “Companion”, you realize the enormity of the project. The “Companion” is a book that needs doing, and I hope that it will fill a lot of gaps. Once that book is published, if any publisher wants to work with me on a revision of “The Brewmaster’s Table”, I’m sure I’ll be honored to have a go at it. For now, I slip back under the bus, where I shall remain until I turn in the “Companion” manuscript sometime next year…

Cheers,

Garrett Oliver
Brewmaster, The Brooklyn Brewery
Editor-in-Chief, “The Oxford Companion to Beer”

It could well become the thorough, living survey we’ve been waiting for.

I hope Mr. Oliver someday revisits Table, though. Imagine what it could be when necessity no longer forces him to tuck half of a survey inside of it. It might even have room for those recipes he commisioned.