Beverages category: 3182 books
Around the World in Eighty Wines
Exploring Wine One Country at a Time
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Inspired by Jules Verne’s classic adventure tale, celebrated editor-in-chief of The Wine Economist Mike Veseth takes his readers Around the World in Eighty Wines**.**
The journey starts in London, Phileas Fogg’s home base, and follows Fogg’s itinerary to France and Italy before veering...
The Ontario Craft Beer Guide
Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2017
With nearly one hundred new breweries, this second edition of The Ontario Craft Beer Guide is an indispensable field guide to the province’s beer.
The explosion of craft beer variety in North America has created a climate of amazing quality and bewildering options for beer drinkers. Choosing...
by Doug Shafer
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
At the age of 47, when he a successful publishing executive and living with his wife and four children in an affluent Chicago suburb, John Shafer made the surprise announcement that he had purchased a vineyard in the Napa Valley. In 1973, he moved his family to California and, with no knowledge of...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
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Wine as Heritage: Exploring the Roots of Wine Heritage in Niagara
Michael Ripmeester and Russell Johnston
Michael Ripmeester and Russell Johnston engage the ways in which Niagarans have assimilated grapes and wines into heritage narratives. They argue that Niagarans view this relationship ambivalently as they see themselves excluded from grape and wine events.
by Harvey Shepard
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
The beautifully illustrated homage to the art of beer—and the design that makes it stand out
The craft beer boom of the last decade has led to an explosion of new breweries. In such a crowded market, how do you make your beer stand out from the crowd? For many of the best brewers, the secret...
by Jean-Pierre Rossouw
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2012
Tasting the Cape is a guide to the world-renowned Cape winelands, a travelling companion and more. Filled with insights from one of South Africa's most influential food and wine critics, the book offers the wine lover a new and accessible approach to South African wines by grouping the featured estates...
Brew Britannia
The Strange Rebirth of British Beer
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2014
How punter power pulled the humble pint back from the brink, this is the surprising story of a very British consumer revolt! Following a cast of bloody-minded City bankers, hippie microbrewers, style gurus, a Python, and a lot of men in pubs, Brew Britannia tells the story of the campaign to revitalise...
Extreme Wine
Searching the World for the Best, the Worst, the Outrageously Cheap, the Insanely Overpriced, and the Undiscovered
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2013
In Extreme Wine, wine economist and best-selling author Mike Veseth circles the globe searching for the best, worst, cheapest, most expensive, and most over-priced wines. Mike seeks out the most outrageous wine people and places and probes the biggest wine booms and busts. Along the way he applauds...
Napa at Last Light
America's Eden in an Age of Calamity
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
The New York Times bestselling author of Napa tells the captivating story of how the Napa Valley region transformed into an extraordinary engine of commerce, glamour, and an outsized version of the American dream—and how it could be lost—in “a strong plea for responsible stewardship of the land”...
Wines of the New South Africa
Tradition and Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Sought after by European aristocrats and a favorite of Napoleon Bonaparte, the sweet wines of Constantia in the Cape Colony were considered to be among the world’s best during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. During the first democratic elections in 1994, South Africa began to re-emerge...
by Robert A. Musson M.D.
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2005
Beginning in the mid-1800s, the beer-brewing industry in Cleveland experienced its most extensive growth due to the rapidly increasing immigrant population of mostly Germans,Czechs, and Irish. The breweries enjoyed great success until the Prohibition era closed all brewing operations down for 14 dry...
I'll Drink to That
Beaujolais and the French Peasant Who Made It the World's Most Popular Wine
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2007
The remarkable saga of the wine and people of Beaujolais and Georges Duboeuf, the peasant lad who brought both world recognition.
Every third week of November, wine shops around the world announce “Le Beaujolais Nouveau est arrivé” and in a few short weeks, over seven million bottles are...
Guinness
The Greatest Brewery on Earth—Its History, People, and Beer
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
This full-brewed story of the legendary stout is “as interesting for what it reveals about Ireland as it is for its story about Guinness” (Romancing the Foam).
There is no other company, industry, or premise more closely aligned—indeed synonymous—with its hometown than Guinness’s...
by Nathen Amin
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
York is the second-most visited city in the UK, attracting millions of visitors from all across the world who are spellbound by the city’s medieval churches, quaint snickelways and its plentiful pubs. In 1663 it was recorded that York had 263 licensed public houses. As the population of York increased,...