{"id":5708,"date":"2025-09-24T11:39:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T11:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/?p=5708"},"modified":"2025-09-24T11:39:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T11:39:11","slug":"book-review-ale-city-st-albans-beer-history-and-remarkable-pubs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/2025\/09\/24\/book-review-ale-city-st-albans-beer-history-and-remarkable-pubs\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review &#8211; Ale City: St Albans\u2019 Beer History and Remarkable Pubs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.amberley-books.com\/media\/catalog\/product\/cache\/4ec4cbccc680113c4be84e371cbad062\/9\/7\/9781398125117_1_1.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2018<em>You can drink deep of the history of St. Albans<\/em>\u2019; so begins Roger Protz\u2019s excellent book, which is part history, part pub crawl.\u00a0 From medieval inns to the venerable Ye Olde Fighting Cocks, Mr Protz, renowned beer writer and long time resident of St Albans, sketches a portrait of a city that, even today, boasts more pubs per square mile than any other in Britain.\u00a0 Packed with facts and anecdotes, plus photographs by Will Lewis, Mr Protz offers both affection and authority in his research, although an index and\/or chronology would have been useful, given the sheer volume of pubs mentioned.\u00a0 Special praise is offered to cask ale institutions such as the Farriers Arms, home to CAMRA\u2019s oldest branch (South Hertfordshire) formed in the 1970s. \u00a0Page size: 17cm x 24cm; 96 pages. ISBN 978-1-3981-2511-7.\u00a0 \u00a315.99.\u00a0 Published by Amberley Publishing and available <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amberley-books.com\/ale-city.html\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.amberley-books.com\/ale-city.html\">on-line<\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Graeme Boyd<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018You can drink deep of the history of St. Albans\u2019; so begins Roger Protz\u2019s excellent book, which is part history, part pub crawl.\u00a0 From medieval inns to the venerable Ye&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5710,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5708"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5711,"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5708\/revisions\/5711"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}