Wine Spirits category: 1427 books
Hungry Girl Happy Hour
75 Recipes for Amazingly Fantastic Guilt-Free Cocktails and Party Foods
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2010
Amazingly delicious guilt-free recipes for any fun-filled cocktail party!
Margaritas and cosmos and mudslides, oh my! Blended drinks, mixed drinks, fruity drinks . . . any and every cocktail you desire is here in Hungry Girl Happy Hour, and they've all got HG's guilt-free guarantee! Also included...
Homemade Soda
200 Recipes for Making & Using Fruit Sodas & Fizzy Juices, Sparkling Waters, Root Beers & Cola Brews, Herbal & Healing Waters, Sparkling Teas & Coffees, Shrubs & Switchels, Cream Sodas & Floats, & Other Carbonated Concoctions
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Making your own soda is easy and inexpensive. Best of all, you control the sweetness level and ingredients, so you can create a drink that’s exactly what you want. Using a few simple techniques, anyone can make a spectacular variety of beverages. Try Pomegranate Punch, Chai Fizz, Fruity Root Beer,...
by Paul Andrews
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2010
This book is a handy guide on how to make 50 Quick Cocktails. Some famous and favourite cocktail recipes are included, along with some new ones for you to try. Why not try a Vodka Martini, a TNT, or maybe even slip 'Between The Sheets' for your favourite drink. Please drink responsibly.
Raw Spirit
In Search of the Perfect Dram
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013
As a native of Scotland, bestselling author Iain Banks has decided to undertake a tour of the distilleries of his homeland in a bid to uncover the unique spirit of the single malt. Visiting some of the world's most famous distilleries and also some of its smallest and most obscure ones, Banks embarks...
Cocteles con historia
Guía definitiva para el borracho ilustrado
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 22, 2014
«No me he acostumbrado a tolerar a los abstemios dogmáticos, a esas gentes que, no se sabe por qué, se alegran de que uno no beba e ignoran que la embriaguez alcohólica, controlada hasta donde sea posible, es un método de conocimiento cultural y de interpretación del mundo en general, absolutamente...
The Wet and the Dry
A Drinker's Journey
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2013
**Selected as a Top Ten Book of the Year by Dwight Garner, New York Times
A “fearlessly honest account” (Financial Times) of man’s love of drink, and an insightful meditation on the meaning of alcohol consumption across cultures worldwide**
Drinking alcohol: a beloved tradition,...
The Mezcal Rush
Explorations in Agave Country
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
"A rich, inclusive portrait of one of the world's great drinks." —Kirkus Reviews
Mezcal. In recent years, the oldest spirit in the Americas has been reinvented as a pricy positional good popular among booze connoisseurs and the mixologists who use it as a cocktail ingredient. Unlike...
Jigger, Beaker and Glass
Drinking Around the World
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2001
Charles Baker has created what is perhaps the greatest armchair drinking book of all time.
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Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Agave dates back to the Aztec civilization as an important crop in Mexico. Since the 1600s, the people of western Mexico have cultivated blue agave from the red volcanic soil that blankets the region, to make what we know as tequila. The Spirit of Tequila celebrates the tradition, culture, and myth...
by 亞當．羅傑斯(Adam Rogers)
Language: Chinese
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Language: Chinese
Release Date: October 4, 2016
★榮獲2014年Gourmand Awards最佳酒類圖書獎
★入圍2015年筆會／E．O．威爾遜文學獎科學寫作獎決選
不論你啜飲的是清酒、精釀啤酒、單一麥芽威士忌，或卡本內蘇維濃葡萄酒，當你真正了解杯中魔液的來龍去脈，飲酒將變得更饒富趣味！
有泡沬的啤酒喝起來更香醇可口？為什麼香檳的氣泡比啤酒的更快消失？
味覺敏感的人比較不愛喝兩杯？亞洲人喝酒為何特別容易臉紅？
人們真能從酒中嘗出數十種風味？酒評師為何能夠說出精湛絕妙的神級酒評？
台灣噶瑪蘭威士忌奪得世界冠軍的關鍵為何？
一萬年來，人類的製酒技術不斷精進；然而，現代科學家對酒中微妙生化反應的解析才剛剛展開。在這趟跨越地域、文明的精神之旅中，亞當‧羅傑斯帶著我們穿越古今，仔細審視酒精飲料的歷史。我們首先回顧前人無意間邂逅發酵飲料的過往，隨著時間軸移動，再來到最先進的科研實驗室中，目睹研究人員證明人類為何熱愛飲酒。
從發酵、蒸餾到熟陳等工序，書中以獨特的視野，將生產知名酒飲的木桶、蒸餾器、槽具與酒缸內的神奇展露無遺。跟著羅傑斯的腳步，我們神遊蘇格蘭高地的威士忌聖地，以及當今世上最頂尖的基因定序實驗室──沿途還會造訪好幾間酒吧──也順道見識了現代製酒技術衍生而來的各種角色與發展。他讓我們的好奇心永無止境，漸次揭開酒精飲料的層層神秘面紗：
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99 Drams of Whiskey
The Accidental Hedonist's Quest for the Perfect Shot and the History of the Drink
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2009
Kate Hopkins knew there had to be more to whiskey than using it as a mixer. She had an unquenchable thirst to learn more about "the drink" and set out on an ambitious itinerary researching its history. Combining comprehensive research with informal narrative, Hopkins entertains and educates...
by Ian Buxton
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2012
101 World Whiskies To Try Before You Die is the companion guide to 2010's 101 Whiskies To Try Before You Die. Ian Buxton again eschews the obvious whiskies and recommends another 101 whiskies that he believes every whisky lover should taste. In Ian Buxton's new collection of whisky recommendations...
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,...
Chasing the White Dog
An Amateur Outlaw's Adventures in Moonshine
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2010
In Chasing the White Dog, journalist Max Watman traces the historical roots and contemporary story of hooch. He takes us to the backwoods of Appalachia and the gritty nip joints of Philadelphia, from a federal courthouse to Pocono Speedway, profiling the colorful characters who make up white whiskey's...