Emma Inch is one of eight award-winning authors, influencers and experts who have used their expertise to compile the World’s Greatest Beers, featuring 250 of the best brews and is due to be published on 1 August.

In anticipation of the title’s release, here’s three of Emma’s recommendations straight from the book:

Allsopp’s India Pale Ale (5.6 per cent) – “This beer, brought back from extinction, gives us a glimpse into a fascinating past and, I hope, a highly successful future.”

Anspach & Hobday’s The Porter (6.7 per cent) – “A blend of highly kilned and roasted malts coupled with American Cascade and British East Kent Goldings hops results in a firm coffee and chocolate bitterness, and a beer that sings of the city of its birth.”

Beak’s Pencil India Porter (7.2 per cent) – “It’s as decadent as the chocolate you pop in your mouth before breakfast on Christmas morning, rich and boozy with layers of coffee and molasses, and a tight finish of uplifting woody bitterness.”

These are just three of the 31 selected by Emma in World’s Greatest Beers.

Emma said: “Some beers I’ve chosen speak to me of cities, so vivid, so full of the chatter of strangers, that I can feel the stone beneath my feet as they guide me through their thoroughfares. Others draw me instead to a single patch of countryside, tucked between streams and hedges, where I can feel the pinch of a winter’s night on my cheeks, or the hum of a late summer evening in the sweat on the back of my neck.”

She will be joined by the other seven authors for a tour of the Great British Beer Festival trade day on 2 August. To meet the authors and sample some of these world beers contact press@camra.org.uk. 

To find out more and pre-order the title from the CAMRA shop for just £15.99 visit: https://shop1.camra.org.uk/product/worlds-greatest-beers/

Emma is a multi-award-winning freelance writer and audio maker and former British Beer Writer of the Year. Having always loved both beer and writing, she brought the two together in one of the UK’s first beer and brewing shows on FM radio. Since then, Emma has written about beer and pubs for a number of national and international publications. She also produces creative audio and podcasts for the drinks trade and is the current chair of the British Guild of Beer Writers.