Tasting Beer: An Insider's Guide to the World's Greatest Drink Author: Visit Amazon's Randy Mosher Page | Language: English | ISBN:
1603420894 | Format: EPUB
Tasting Beer: An Insider's Guide to the World's Greatest Drink Description
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"A radical passion for brews." —Bob Townsend
(
Atlanta Journal Constitution)
From the Back Cover
Everybody knows how to drink beer, but few know how to really taste it.
Tasting Beer is a lively exploration of the culture, chemistry, and creativity that make craft beers so wonderfully complex. Heighten your enjoyment of every glass with an understanding of the finer points of brewing, serving, tasting, and food pairing.
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- Paperback: 256 pages
- Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC; Original edition (February 11, 2009)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1603420894
- ISBN-13: 978-1603420891
- Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7 x 0.9 inches
- Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Before I review Randy Mosher's "Tasting Beer: An Insider's Guide to the World's Greatest Drink," let me give you a few calibration points so you can decide whether to take my opinions seriously or not. I definitely qualify as a serious beer geek. My travels around the U.S. nearly always involve visits to brewpubs. I'll drive hundreds of miles out of my way to have a pint of good craft brew, and I attend as many beer festivals each year as I possibly can. My favorite beers are Imperial stouts, barleywines and Imperial I.P.A.s, such as Alesmith's Speedway, Stone's Old Guardian and Moylan's Hopsickle (among many others). I enjoy the occasional Belgian (the funkier the better), and I consider Fat Tire to be an overly hyped "training-wheels beer" for people who don't know any better. I couldn't choke down a Bud, Coors or Miller if I were dying of thirst, and (yes, it's true) I tend to be a little snobbish toward people who are unwilling to expand their beer tastes beyond the Big Three. So, with that said, what did I think of "Tasting Beer?"
Well, there's a remarkable amount of information in its 247 pages, all of it presented in a very nicely integrated text-and-picture form. No matter what aspect of beer culture you're interested in, you'll find it covered to a useful level of detail in "Tasting Beer." Do you want to know more about the history of beer? It's in there, from 10,000 years BCE to the present, in a fascinating 22-page section. Do you want to improve your abilities to taste beer, and to accurately describe its qualities and complexity? It's in there--you'll learn how to distinguish 25 common flavors such as diacetyl, isoamyl acetate and fusels, and whether they're desirable or not. Are you interested in becoming more sophisticated in pairing beer with food?
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