If you like beer and history and doing good thing, you’ll enjoy reading The Search for God and Guinness by Stephen Mansfield. If you don’t like doing any of those things, I think you’ll still like the book. It’s an informative look at the story behind both Guinness and Dublin, Ireland, and how the giving spirit of one truly shaped and saved the other.
As informative as the book is, though, it’s not exactly the most enjoyable read. At times I found it a bit too fact-and research-driven. I’ve never read another of Mansfield’s books, so I’m not sure if his laborious listing of facts and events is normal. Regardless, it got old quick. The information was good, but the joy of reading wasn’t experienced in most chapters.
Though I found the majority of the book a chore scattered with interesting nuggets and trivia, the Introduction completely made up for it. Mansfield does a wonderful job capturing the essence and communal centrality of beer over the generations, and its prominent place in the church, of all places. His story of the first Thanksgiving is one I’ve already retold to several friends. Being a recent convert to the goodness of tasty ales myself, I felt reaffirmed in moving into what had before been forbidden territory. All in all, the book is worth its cover price if you only read the introduction.
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