Beverages category: 3182 books
by Halliday, James
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
In James Halliday’s Top 100 Australian Wineries, James Halliday, Australia’s leading wine writer and former, long-serving wine judge, makes his personal selection of our finest 100 wineries from Bannockburn to Bay of Fires, Woodlands to Wirra Wirra.Arranged alphabetically, and representing...
by John B. Burns
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2012
A fascinating and interesting journey through the wine world that began in the pioneering days of the Napa Valley in the 1960's and continued through college, then a wonderfully successful award-winning restaurant.
Most recently, John has been consulting about wine and writing in sundry publications.
A Man and his Mountain
The Everyman who Created Kendall-Jackson and Became America's Greatest Wine Entrepreneur
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
The story of self-made billionaire Jess Jackson, who put Chardonnay on America's tables as he built the KendallJackson wine empire from a few mountainous acres of grapes, and raced the Horse of the Year three years in a row, is a remarkable tale of romance, risk, and reinvention-perhaps the greatest...
The Young and the Thirsty
25 California Wines
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2010
The Young & The Thirsty: 25 California Wines For New School Drinkers is the mold-breaking new book by young winemakers Jacob and Jesse Kovacs that provides a map to their peers just beginning to cultivate a love for wine. The brothers' goal is to launch a million winos with guidance as to which vintages...
by Larry Walker
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2005
California-based wine expert Larry Walker offers indepth reference on the wines of one of the world's most prominent wine-producing regions, the Napa Valley. He explores the history of this region and gives a full description of the grape varieties, viticulture, and winemaking techiques, and recommends...
FOOD & WINE 2017 Wine Guide
America's 500 Best Wineries
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2016
American wineries step up!
The 2017 Food & Wine Wine Guide provides accessible expert reviews and recommendations of the top bottlings from 500 wineries across the United States. From established producers to exciting up-and-comers we uncork Pinot Noirs and Chardonnays, Cabernets and Merlots...
Wine Hack
Wine Education that Starts with Your Mouth Not with Your Head
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016
Why is wine so difficult? It might be because we in the industry have long used ridiculous tasting notes to describe wine, even though these descriptions fail to encapsulate all that a wine offers. “Notes of blackberries, tobacco, and leather.” How does this odd list of a few flavors help you...
Delaware Beer
The Story of Brewing in the First State
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2016
Boasting a brewing history older than the United States, Delaware packs an outsized punch in the craft beer scene with its landmark breweries and bold flavors. In 1873, the German lagers of Wilmington's Diamond State brewing rose to dominance. After Prohibition and the bust of the first craft beer...
by Ben Handicott, Kalya Ryan
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
From the people who have been delivering trustworthy guidebooks to every destination in the world for 40 years,Lonely Planet's 50 Bars To Blow Your Mind handpicks the world's most extraordinary drinking holes, from caverns and island party havens to a bar nestled in an ancient tree trunk.
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by Allen Andrews
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2011
The success of today's whisky industry was based largely on the commercial drive and foresight of a select group of whisky merchants who took the business world by storm in the late-18th and early-19th centuries. As the manufacture of blended whisky took off, the likes of Tommy Dewar, Thomas Buchanan,...
by Ben Howkins
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2011
In his first book for Quiller, world renowned port writer Ben Howkins guides the reader through the fascinating history of the wine, from its origins through to the present day, and in particular examines the complex persona of the port drinker . Illustrated with Oliver Prestons hilarious cartoons,...
by Gordon Thorburn
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2011
Is there really a pub called The Toad Rock Retreat? Which one town has the pubs with both the longest and the shortest names? How many Lions, Crowns and Horses are there? How many pubs are called The Speculation, The Triple Plea, The Welcome Stranger? Why would you give your pub a name like The Geese...
Barrel-Aged Stout and Selling Out
Goose Island, Anheuser-Busch, and How Craft Beer Became Big Business
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
Goose Island opened as a family-owned Chicago brewpub in the late 1980s, and it soon became one of the most inventive breweries in the world. In the golden age of light, bland and cheap beers, John Hall and his son Greg brought European flavors to America. With distribution in two dozen states, two...
Birmingham Beer
A Heady History of Brewing in the Magic City
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2015
Less than fifteen years after the birth of Birmingham, its brewing history began, and soon saloons dotted nearly every corner. Prohibition, however, decimated the brewing scene for eighty-five years. Although national Prohibition began in 1920, Jefferson County voted to go dry in 1907. Alabama beer saw...