If we're living in the global village, where's the pub?

Having written Man Walks Into A Pub, an irreverent book about beer drinking in Britain, Pete Brown thought he deserved a holiday.

Leaving Britain was one thing, but getting away from beer proved impossible. For while the British believe beer is, well, British, it seems a few others have cottoned on to the fact its damn fine drink.

In fact it turns out there are seven countries that make more beer than Britain and - hard though it is to believe - there are at least five countries that drink more beer per-head of the population than we do.

Determined to get to the bottom of the matter- and more than a few glasses into the bargain- Brown decided to embark on the biggest pub crawl ever.

He journeyed from Dublin to Tokyo, drinking in more than three hundred bars and pubs in twenty-seven towns in thirteen different countries on four different continents. And though he put on a stone in weight and did untold damage to his liver, Pete at last found saloon bar enlightenment.

Three Sheets to the Wind is the hilarious, life-changing account of Brown’s globe-trotting quest to discover the heart of beer.