I never really cared about history when I started reading this book. I did, however, care about beer. Plus, I’m a Christian. So this seemed like a good book for me to read.
What I expected was a book about how beer (Guinness, in particular) affected Christians. What I found was a good book about how Christianity affected the Guinness family, and in turn, affected society.
However, the reason I give this book only 3 stars out of 5 is because while it was interesting to read the history of Guinness, I got a little bored reading about the entire family tree of the Guinness family. It would have been sufficient to talk solely about the key players of the brewery, and how Christianity affected how they ran the family business.
It was very interesting to see how the brewery survived some of the hardest economic and political times, and stayed one of the best selling beers of all time.
And I’m proud to say, that after learning about the history of Guinness, I’ve become much more interested in other history, as well.
