Description: It's the revised and updated edition of the beer lover's Michelin, with over 197,000 copies in print. User-friendly, easy to read, and written to encourage discovery rather than preselect what's tasty and what's not, here is a portable rating guide to over 1,500 American and imported beers. It is a true labor of love -- Bob Klein tastes and rates them all, on a scale of 0 to 5: Southwark Premium Pilsener (Australia, 4.1), Negra Modela Dark Ale (Mexico, 3.5), Bridgeport Old Knucklehead Barley Wine (USA, 4.0), Timmermans Peche lambic (Belgium, 3.3), Golden Pheasant lager (Slovakia, 3.9). There's the best beer he's ever had -- still the deeply roasted, tantalizingly bitter Rogue Shakespeare Stout (Oregon, 4.8). And a bevy of beers to avoid -- the faintly sulfurous, distinctly unpleasant La Jolla Pumphouse Porter (California, 0.0), or the "tastes like aftershave" Desperados (France, 0.1).

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