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a useful reference, and a source of serendipitious pleasure (Engineering and Technology )
This book contains everything you might want to know about the world's most popular drink. (The Field )
epic...blockbuster that would satisfy any hardcore enthusiast. It's edited by Brooklyn Brewery's ridiculously talented brewmaster Garrett Oliver, a man who writes as well as he brews. Which is annoyingly well. (The Guardian )
anyone with more than a passing interest in malt and hops should find something to interest them between the pages of this hefty book. (The Independent )
satisfyingly comprehensive (The Independent )
an extremely informative read for any beer lover. (Suffolk & Norfolk Life )
A comprehensive biography (Maxim )
This book contains everything you might want to know about the world's most popular drink. (The Field )
epic...blockbuster that would satisfy any hardcore enthusiast. It's edited by Brooklyn Brewery's ridiculously talented brewmaster Garrett Oliver, a man who writes as well as he brews. Which is annoyingly well. (The Guardian )
anyone with more than a passing interest in malt and hops should find something to interest them between the pages of this hefty book. (The Independent )
satisfyingly comprehensive (The Independent )
an extremely informative read for any beer lover. (Suffolk & Norfolk Life )
A comprehensive biography (Maxim )
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For millennia, beer has been a staple beverage in cultures across the globe. After water and tea, it is the most popular drink in the world, and it is at the centre centre of an over $450 billion industry. With the emergence of craft brewing and homebrewing, beer is experiencing a renaissance that is expanding the reach of the beer culture even further, bringing the art of brewing into homes and widening the interest in beer as an important cultural item. The Oxford Companion to Beer is the first reference work to fully investigate the history and vast scope of beer, from the agricultural makeup of various beers to the technical elements of the brewing process, local effects of brewing on regions around the world, and social and political implications of sharing a beer. Entries not only define terms such as <'spent grain'> and <'wort',> but give fascinating details about how these and other ingredients affect a beer's taste, texture, and popularity. Cultural entries on such topics as drinking songs or beer gardens offer vivid accounts of how our drinking traditions have shifted through history, and how these traditions vary in different parts of the world, from Japan to Mexico, New Zealand, and Brazil, among many other countries. The pioneers of beer-making are the subjects of biographical entries; the legacies they left behind, in the forms of the world's most popular beers and breweries, are recurrent themes throughout the book. Collectively the Companion has over 1,100 entries -written by 150 of the world's most prominent beer experts -as well as a foreword by renowned chef Tom Colicchio (star of television's Top Chef), thorough appendices, conversion tables, images throughout, and an index. Flipping through the book, readers will discover everything from why beer was first taxed to how drinkers throughout history have overcome temperance movements and how an <'ale conner'> determined the quality of a beer in the thirteenth century. (It involved sitting in a puddle of beer.) The Companion is comprehensive, unprecedented, and of great value to anyone who has ever had a curiosity or appetite for beer. brewing and homebrewing, beer is experiencing a renaissance that is expanding the reach of the beer culture even further, bringing the art of brewing into homes and widening the interest in beer as an important cultural item. The Companion is comprehensive, unprecedented, and of great value to anyone who has ever had a curiosity or appetite for beer.
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Format:Hardcover
At long last, an Oxford Companion to Beer has arrived which, for me, completes the set with the Companion to Wine and the Companion to Food.
Like the other volumes, the Companion to Beer is a book to dip into and almost every page reveals some fascinating insights into aspects of the amber nectar.
It is not, however, flawless. Firstly, I was very disappointed to discover that it is an American publication and therefore has American spellings and phrasings. More importantly, there is an inappropriate American bias in the entries. For example, there are very large entries on prohibition and Anheuser-Busch. By comparison, Britain gets relatively short shrift and some of the minor, but interesting, beer-producing nations are hardly mentioned at all. Many minor American breweries get more space than important British, European and world breweries.
There are also factual errors. For example, under the entry on Shepherd Neame it states that Faversham is a port town. This may have been true 300 years ago but that description hardly qualifies now.
Finally, there are numerous typographical errors of various types.
Although this volume is a welcome addition the faults listed above are extremely annoying and distracting.
Like the other volumes, the Companion to Beer is a book to dip into and almost every page reveals some fascinating insights into aspects of the amber nectar.
It is not, however, flawless. Firstly, I was very disappointed to discover that it is an American publication and therefore has American spellings and phrasings. More importantly, there is an inappropriate American bias in the entries. For example, there are very large entries on prohibition and Anheuser-Busch. By comparison, Britain gets relatively short shrift and some of the minor, but interesting, beer-producing nations are hardly mentioned at all. Many minor American breweries get more space than important British, European and world breweries.
There are also factual errors. For example, under the entry on Shepherd Neame it states that Faversham is a port town. This may have been true 300 years ago but that description hardly qualifies now.
Finally, there are numerous typographical errors of various types.
Although this volume is a welcome addition the faults listed above are extremely annoying and distracting.
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as an aspiring, young commecial brewer, i find this book is a great read as well as a very handy reference. a good blend of interesting trivia and sound technical information.
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
I saw this book in a store nearby and immediately ran home, where I ordered it via amazon.co.uk. This amazing compendium about everything that envolves beer is simply the most complete work I've seen so far.
Far away from these common books, which bring us a selection of couple beers the author believes are the most important for a certain region or country (and, that's always just his opinion, cause everyone of us would have a different list; and therefore it's always disappointing to read these kind of works), The Oxford Companion to Beer shows a lot more; in fact, it brings almost everything.
For example, it brings details about 72 species of hop, about 24 regions where hop is produced, and all details that involve this ingredient; and the same for malt, sorts of water etc.
All kinds of common beers are described, bringing details and interesting/useful facts.
The way beer is produced is described for every country, and every kind of beer, besides description of important people who led brewery into what we know today.
I believe this is a masterpiece, a must have for every beer lover.
Far away from these common books, which bring us a selection of couple beers the author believes are the most important for a certain region or country (and, that's always just his opinion, cause everyone of us would have a different list; and therefore it's always disappointing to read these kind of works), The Oxford Companion to Beer shows a lot more; in fact, it brings almost everything.
For example, it brings details about 72 species of hop, about 24 regions where hop is produced, and all details that involve this ingredient; and the same for malt, sorts of water etc.
All kinds of common beers are described, bringing details and interesting/useful facts.
The way beer is produced is described for every country, and every kind of beer, besides description of important people who led brewery into what we know today.
I believe this is a masterpiece, a must have for every beer lover.
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