Books About Beer

About Books About Beer

Cogan & Mater Limited is a specialist publishing and retailing company dealing exclusively with books about beer.

We are a tiny operation with too many things to do and not enough hours in the week to do them, though that will get easier in the next year or two as we expand.

As well as our own publications we want to encourage the publication and sales of good quality writing about great beers, anywhere in the world.

What we like

- Accurate facts and data
- Useful information
- Stylish writing
- Stuff that promotes high quality brewers – especially small ones

What we dislike

- Spin
- Insincere or pointless enthusiasm
- Sponsored puff pieces
- Stuff that promotes dull beers – especially from larger producers

Right now the priority is establishing our own products in the marketplace.

That will be swiftly followed by building agreements with other small publishers around the world about useful ways of working together to promote the best beer writing and sell the best books about beer.

We have the technical capacity to design and edit books for other publishers or for authors who wish to risk commercialising their own works.

We are always on the look-out for publishers who may wish to commercialise editions of beer books in French, Dutch, German, Italian or other languages.

For commercial proposals, contact us.

Publications to date

Lambic(k)land (1st edition)
by Tim Webb, Chris Pollard & Joris Pattyn – sold out

Around Bruges in 80 Beers (1st edition)
by Chris Pollard & Siobhan McGinn – sold out

Around London in 80 Beers (1st edition)
by Chris Pollard & Siobhan McGinn

Around Bruges in 80 Beers (2nd edition)
by Chris Pollard & Siobhan McGinn

Coming soon

Around Brussels in 80 Beers (1st edition)
by Joe Stange & Yvan de Baets

Lambicland (2nd edition)
by Tim Webb, Chris Pollard & Siobhan McGinn

We are also the only site selling signed copies of 100 Belgian Beers to Try Before You Die! and Good Beer Guide Belgium (CAMRA Books).