Beverages category: 3182 books
Travels with Barley
A Journey Through Beer Culture in America
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
Do beer yeast rustlers really exist? Who patented the Beer Goddess? How can you tell a Beer Geek from a Beer Nazi? Where exactly is Beervana? Does Big Beer hate Little Beer?
Ken Wells, a novelist, Pulitzer Prize finalist, and longtime Wall Street Journal writer, answers these questions and more by...
The Curious World of Wine
Facts, Legends, and Lore About the Drink We Love So Much
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
The Curious World of Wine is a fascinating miscellany about the colorful characters, celebrated places, and quirky events surrounding wine-making. Recounting wine tales that are by turns amusing, surprising, and occasionally a bit naughty, wine expert Richard Vine reveals little-known facts such as:
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Red, White, and Brew
An American Beer Odyssey
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2008
Red, White, and Brew is the ultimate beer run across the United States, during which Brian Yaeger visits fourteen breweries of various sizes and talks to founders, owners, brewmasters, consumers, and anyone else he meets on his odyssey and who enjoys the making, tasting, and appreciating of brews.
Red,...
A Field Guide to Whisky
An Expert Compendium to Take Your Passion and Knowledge to the Next Level
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
A Field Guide to Whisky is a one-stop guide for all the information a whisky enthusiast needs. With the whisky market booming all over the world, now is a perfect time for a comprehensive guide to this popular brown spirit. What are the basic ingredients in all whiskies? How does it get its flavor?...
Atlanta Beer
A Heady History of Brewing in the Hub of the South
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
Atlanta is a unique southern city known for its vast diversity and fast-paced lifestyle. Rarely is it associated with a rich beer and brewing culture, but not for a lack of one. From Atlanta's first brewery in the 1850s to the city's Saloon Row and the parched days of local and national Prohibition,...
Capital Beer
A Heady History of Brewing in Washington, D.C.
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
Imagine the jubilation of thirsty citizens in 1796 when the Washington Brewery--the city's first brewery--opened. Yet the English-style ales produced by the early breweries in the capital and in nearby Arlington and Alexandria sat heavy on the tongue in the oppressive Potomac summers. By the 1850s, an...
Georgia Vineyards and Wineries
A Historical Guide to Modern Georgia Wines 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Georgia Vineyards and Wineries is a historical guide to modern Georgia wines in 2016.
Georgia is the largest muscadine grape–producing state in the world. These native grapes were observed by early explores growing in the trees throughout Georgia and the South in the 1500s, but more likely had adapted...
Locally Brewed
Portraits of Craft Breweries from America's Heartland
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2014
Locally Brewed celebrates the Midwest's craft brewing movement with profiles of 20 of the area's brewmasters and their breweries. These are entertaining and inspiring stories of the individuals who have been essential in the exponential growth of this movement, as told through vivid interviews, beautiful...
by Richard W. Unger
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2013
The beer of today—brewed from malted grain and hops, manufactured by large and often multinational corporations, frequently associated with young adults, sports, and drunkenness—is largely the result of scientific and industrial developments of the nineteenth century. Modern beer, however, has...
by Claudia J. Taller
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2015
In the early 18th century, pioneers cleared land in Ohio's Western Reserve and found it suitable for farming, but until the Ohio-Erie Canal opened, it was difficult for them to share the fruit of their labor. Ohio's Canal Country Wineries captures the spirit of those who lived off the land from Cleveland...
by Erik Lars Myers, Sarah H. Ficke
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
Boasting more craft breweries than any other state in the South, North Carolina is the state of Southern beer. In 2012, Erik Lars Myers wrote North Carolina Craft Beer & Breweries, which profiled 45 breweries. Since then, the number of breweries has more than tripled to over 140 and is still growing....
Whiskey Business
How Small-Batch Distillers Are Transforming American Spirits
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Discover the underdog story of the improbable rise of small-batch distilling in America. This bracingly written, fast-paced work traces the relationship of Americans to spirits such as bourbon, scotch, vodka, gin, and rum. And it presents the full story of a plucky band of entrepreneurs who disrupted...
by Ian Buxton
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2011
Revised and updated in 2013, 101 Whiskies to Try Before You Die is a whisky guide with a difference. It is not an awards list. It is not a list of the 101 'best' whiskies in the world in the opinion of a self-appointed whisky guru. It is simply a guide to the 101 whiskies that enthusiasts must seek...
American Wino
A Tale of Reds, Whites, and One Man's Blues
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
A professional booze writer whose life spins out of control tries to piece it back together by embarking upon an epic wine-fueled adventure that takes him to every corner of the U.S. Part vision quest, part guidebook, part journey into the bizarre tapestry of American life, it will make you laugh,...