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Michael Jackson, author of Michael Jackson’s Beer Companion: 1942-2007.
Rest in peace. You have freed many an interested beer drinker from the tyranny of industrio-beer and in the process opened the eyes of the same people to a wider world of gastronomic pleasure. As John Gruber says: “Beers in his honor tonight”. Cheers to that. I’d like to think he would want it exactly that way.
The book that introduced me to wider world of beer is the bible of the beer world and you owe it to yourself to own a copy.