272 PAGE HARDBACK BOOK

GOLD-BLOCKED COVER & SPINE

THREE-COLOUR LAMINATED JACKET

PHOTOGRAPHS AND ILLUSTRATIONS ON ALMOST EVERY PAGE

HANDY POCKET-SIZED FORMAT (210mm x 105mm)

8 PAGE AUGUST 1999 UPDATE INCLUDED

This book, the first in any language to cover all the current French breweries and beers, will guide the reader through the huge variety with articles on each brewery along with detailed tasting notes on almost every one of their beers. And to literally complete the picture there are hundred of photographs of breweries and their beer labels.

With features on the major brewing region of Nord/Pas-de-Calais, the brewing museums of Lorraine, a guide to buying beer in hypermarkets, recommended bars and shops and a history of French brewing, there is something of interest for everyone - whether beer enthusiast, holiday maker or cross-channel shopper.

After over two years of research, during which time almost every brewery was personally visited, the tasting notes reflect the fact that each specified beer sampled on more than one occasion by both authors. This exhaustive attention to detail makes this the definitive work on the subject of French beer.

Published in the same format as Woods and Rigley's previous book, the critically-acclaimed The Beers Of Wallonia, this will make essential reading for anyone exploring the burgeoning beer scene of France.

WHAT THEY SAY ABOUT THE BOOK

This is a book to recommend heartily. Not only will it be invaluable to anyone visiting France, but it is also an interesting read for the armchair reader. The Taste! (UK monthly beer magazine - December 1998.

From the team who gave us the invaluable, pioneering, thorough Beers Of Wallonia comes a more extensive study - across the French border, all the way from Calais to Corsica. Whilst background essays in guide books sometimes appear to be indulgent clutter, this work is enriched by the additional text. ....the information is thorough, interesting and crisply presented. Michael Jackson - "What's Brewing" December 1998.

Thank goodness, then, for The Beers of France, a remarkable guide written by the British authors of The Beers of Wallonia.

The only way Woods and Rigley could be more helpful would be if they paid your way and held your hand en route to the brewery!

What I really like about both the France and Wallonia books, however, is the way that the authors review beers. These are not fellows who pull punches, so when they write that a beer "gives the impression of being very much a forced amber character which fails to impress" (Kronenbourg Biere de Mars) or "has many layers of taste with a superb balance" (Brasserie Bailleux Cuvée des Jonquilles), then you can bet that they devoutly believe what they write.

........... the style and content of The Beers of France are both beyond reproach, as is the research ethic of the authors

Woods and Rigley, who previously authored an excellent guide to the beers of Wallonia, have expanded their horizons in their latest book. Anybody who is interested in French beers needs to buy this highly informative volume.

..... an excellent guidebook which will increase anyone's understanding and appreciation of French breweries and French beer.Martin Wooster - Mid-Atlantic Brewing News - Feb/March 2000.