Beverage Entrepreneurship Books

“That S*it Will Never Sell!”: A book about ideas by the person who had them by David Gluckman

Educated in Johannesburg, David Gluckman joined a local advertising agency after university and soon fell in love with the business. He made the pilgrimage to London in 1961 and worked as an account executive on Procter & Gamble, Kerrygold, Lyons teas and several Unilever accounts. Always a frustrated copywriter, he escaped into product development in 1969, met a man from IDV and his life changed forever.

  • The Widow Clicquot: The Story of a Champagne Empire and the Woman Who Ruled It by historian Tilar J. Mazzeo.
  • Beeronomics: How Beer Explains the World by Johan Swinnen and Devin Briski
  • Business for Punks: Break All the Rules–the BrewDog Way by James Watt
  • Fritz and Goliath: How to Build a Successful Business from Scratch. A Start-up Story with Tips and Insights Told by the Founder by Mirco Wolf Wiegert
  • Gary Vaynerchuk’s 101 Wines – Gary Vee
  • Heineken in Africa: A Multinational Unleashed by Olivier van Beemen
  • Kidnapping Mr. Heineken by Peter R. de Vries
  • The Barefoot Spirit: How Hardship, Hustle, and Heart Built America’s #1 Wine Brand by Michael Houlihan
  • The Beer Monopoly: How Brewers Bought and Built for World Domination by Ina Verstl, Ernst Faltermeier
  • The Heineken Story: The remarkably refreshing tale of the beer that conquered the world by Barbara Smit