Beer, Glorious Beer- still themost popular drink in Autralia, where the average intake tops 25 gallons a year. Yet, though beer has along and noble ancestry, there are innumerable books about Australian wine and none about Australian beer. Worried by this deficiency, Cyril Pearl first undertook, with great self-sacrifice, field work in hotels throughout Australia and, when he felt that a lifetime's research had been amplified sufficiently, sat down with an adequate and varied supply to write this book.