Essential, professional and home bar reference, laminated to survive the elements of an active club or lounge, social event, home bar or kitchen. Decode drink making and sound like an expert with the history of ingredients, including alcohol and how it is made, plus expectations of taste for each ingredient and how to balance tastes. Popular and ......
More Than 400 Classic and Contemporary Cocktails for Any Occasion
MAKE IT EASY! For centuries, tending bar--whether for friends or professionally--has held a fascination for many. Whatever your plans, Bartending Basics will allow you to instantly master more than 400 cocktails, including classics such as Margaritas, Martinis, Vodka Gimlets, Mai-Tais, and Mojitos. In a spirited blend of stunning color photos ......
QuickStudy Laminated Reference Guide to Brewing, Ingredients, Styles & M ore
In this golden age of beer, do not miss the opportunity to experience the incredible breweries and their creative craftsmanship that is spawning a revolution in brewing. Best-selling beer author Stephen Beaumont can show you the way in 6 laminated pages overflowing with facts from beer's history and the brewing process to brew styles and all of ......
Beer Stained Pulp is a massive hit of nostalgia, making you reminisce about nights down the pub, yearn for long gone breweries, recall weird and wonderful advertising campaigns and commemorate moments in British culture. These handy little beer mats not only catch your spills but also your eye. They are a wonderful source of creative inspiration, ......
True Crime Stories of Whiskey Heists, Beer Bandits, and Fake Million-Dol
Behind Bars is filled with stories both ancient and urgent of what happens when alcohol meets crime, from illicit stills in the Scottish Highlands to moonshine in the USA, rum smuggled by Caribbean pirates, the roaring times of Prohibition, to current-day gangs selling millions of dollars' worth of fake Bordeaux and the often-unsolved cases of ......
IPAs command the largest craft-market share, 25.3 percent of volume last year, while still growing by 41 percent.
Fruit IPA gained more than a share point between 2015 and 2017 YTD (ending 5-28-17). Craft beer's most popular style, India Pale Ale, is experiencing a flavor revolution. Brewers are using a wide range of flavors to push the ......
How a Changing Climate Is Altering the Way We Drink
Climate change is altering how wines are spirits are produced around the world. From unimaginably destructive fires in California to historically unprecedented deep-freezes in Texas and rising temperatures that are lifting England to the forefront of the world of sparkling wine, these are the stories of eight regions confronting it all head on.
How a Changing Climate Is Altering the Way We Drink
"For oenophiles and anyone interested in ways climate change is affecting what's on the table, this is a must-read." Publishers Weekly Take a tour of wine and spirit production around the world and how climate change is affecting it at every stage - from cultivation to consumption. Climate change is altering the very nature of wine and spirit ......
History, Lore, and Recipes from America's Golden Age
A delightful romp through America's Golden Age of Cocktails The decades following the American Civil War burst with invention-they saw the dawn of the telephone, the motor car, electric lights, the airplane-but no innovation was more welcome than the beverage heralded as the "cocktail." The Gilded Age, as it came to be known, was the Golden ......
Techniques, Processes, and Ingredients for Crafting Flavorful Beer
The ubiquity of gluten-containing grains, such as barley, wheat, and rye, in modern-day brewing has prevented many potential consumers from fully enjoying the craft beer revolution. Individuals who have celiac disease, nonceliac gluten intolerance, or gluten sensitivity (as well as those who simply feel better when they avoid gluten) have ......
A collection of over 40 cocktail recipes with a Caribbean influence are included here. Many are rum based and this book gives detailed explanations of the various types of rum used. Drinks range from the a classic Vodka Martini to the now popular Dark and Moody.
Author Lars Marius Garshol set out to explore and document the lost art of brewing using traditional local methods. Equal parts history, cultural anthropology, social science, and travelogue...
The word “champagne” conjures up images of well-dressed bon vivants sipping liquid gold from slender flute glasses during high-class celebrations. But you don’t have to be a well-heeled wine connoisseur to appreciate and enjoy this remarkable beverage. How to Act Like a Champagne Expert is packed with ......
History, Lore, and Recipes from America's Roaring Twenties
How the Prohibition law of 1920 made alcohol, savored in secret, all the more delectable when the cocktail shaker was forced to go "underground" "Roaring Twenties" America boasted famous firsts: women's right to vote, jazz music, talking motion pictures, flapper fashions, and wondrous new devices like the safety razor and the electric vacuum ......
History, Lore, and Recipes from America's Atomic Age
A delightful history of cocktails from the era of new interstate highways, sprouting suburbs, and atomic engineering America at midcentury was a nation on the move, taking to wings and wheels along the new interstate highways and in passenger jets that soared to thirty thousand feet. Anxieties rippled, but this new Atomic Age promised cheap ......