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A leading light in the cocktail scene who is also a notable geek combines his twin fascinations in one book for the first time!

As the world's most popular beverage, tea has fascinated us, awakened us, motivated us, and calmed us for well over two thousand years.

Oz uses his trademark wit and irreverent style to teach you the basics of wine appreciation and show you how to get more out of a bottle of wine, and find out what is really inside. Divided into short, easy to read topics, now is the moment to grab that glass, learn about what's inside that bottle and taste while you read...

The only book you'll ever need on the best batches, pours, and sips available. Authors travel the world finding the world's best beers and telling you where and why. Sometimes even without slurring.

Are you up to date on today's wine scene? Wine For Dummies, 6th Edition reveals what's in, what's out, and what's new in wine.

The original large format edition of Spirit of Place, exploring the fifty greatest distilleries in Scotland.

A collection of recipes for classic cocktails and other iconic drinks that appear in the James Bond novels and films.

Taste 5,000 years of brewing history as a time-travelling home-brewer rediscovers and re-creates the great beers of the past.

A fascinating journey through Scotland's famous distilleries with legendary author Iain Banks No true Scotsman can resist the allure of the nation's whisky distilleries.

As thousands of wines from around the globe enter the marketplace and the American palate continues to adopt flavors from a range of cultures, the task of pairing wine and food becomes increasingly complicated. No longer is the choice simply red or white, or wines from California, France, or Italy. The typical shopper today has access to wines from those regions plus South Africa, Chile, Argentina, New Zealand, and Australia. If that isn't confusing enough, Asian, Latin American, and Creole dishes might find their way onto the same table. Perfect Pairings, by well-known Master Sommelier and respected restaurant industry veteran Evan Goldstein, provides straightforward, practical advice for choosing the right bottle for each meal. The quintessential resource for matching wine and food, this book includes 58 companion recipes developed by celebrated chef Joyce Goldstein that showcase each type of wine.Perfect Pairings combines in-depth explorations of twelve grape varietals, sparkling wines, and dessert wines with guidance about foods that enhance the wide range of styles for each varietal. Whether the Chardonnay is earthy and flinty; rich, buttery, and oak-infused; fruity and tropical; or aged and mature, Goldstein explains how to match it with dishes that will make the wine sing. His clear, educational, and entertaining approach towards intimidating gastronomical questions provides information for all readers, professional and amateur alike.* 16 full-color photos* Six seasonal and special occasion menus* Tips for enhancing food and wine experiences, both at home and in restaurants* Glossary of wine terminology* Overview of the world's primary wine-growing regions * Recommendations of more than five hundred wines, ranging in price from everyday to splurge

In a lively tour around the world and through the millennia, Uncorking the Past tells the compelling story of humanity's ingenious, intoxicating quest for the perfect drink. Following a tantalizing trail of archaeological, chemical, artistic, and textual clues, Patrick E. McGovern, the leading authority on ancient alcoholic beverages, brings us up to date on what we now know about how humans created and enjoyed fermented beverages across cultures. Along the way, he explores a provocative hypothesis about the integral role such libations have played in human evolution. We discover, for example, that the cereal staples of the modern world were probably domesticated for their potential in making quantities of alcoholic beverages. These include the delectable rice wines of China and Japan, the corn beers of the Americas, and the millet and sorghum drinks of Africa. Humans also learned how to make mead from honey and wine from exotic fruits of all kinds-even from the sweet pulp of the cacao (chocolate) fruit in the New World. The perfect drink, it turns out-whether it be mind-altering, medicinal, a religious symbol, a social lubricant, or artistic inspiration-has not only been a profound force in history, but may be fundamental to the human condition itself.

In Postmodern Winemaking, Clark Smith shares the extensive knowledge he has accumulated in engaging, humorous, and erudite essays that convey a new vision of the winemaker's craft--one that credits the crucial roles played by both science and art in the winemaking process. Smith, a leading innovator in red wine production techniques, explains how traditional enological education has led many winemakers astray--enabling them to create competent, consistent wines while putting exceptional wines of structure and mystery beyond their grasp. Great wines, he claims, demand a personal and creative engagement with many elements of the process. His lively exploration of the facets of postmodern winemaking, together with profiles of some of its practitioners, is both entertaining and enlightening.

In comparative tastings, wines from California's Central Coast rival those from such renowned regions as Bordeaux, Burgundy, and Napa, yet they also offer superb value. This is the first comprehensive guide to one of the world's most dynamic and beautiful wine regions-and the setting for the award-winning movie Sideways. An excellent, one-stop resource for touring and tasting at convenient wineries located from Monterey to Santa Barbara, the guide is organized into county-by-county alphabetical listings for this up-and-coming region.Wines and Wineries of California's Central Coast includes:* Profiles of nearly 300 wineries personally visited by the author* Profiles of individual vintners* 5 maps* Winery ratings, plus author and winemaker recommendations* Visitors' and contact information for each winery* Discussions of regional wine history and terroir* Descriptions of designated American Viticultural Areas and grape varietals

Greg Noonan's classic treatise on brewing lagers, New Brewing Lager Beer, offers a thorough yet practical education on the theory and techniques required to produce high-quality beers using all-grain methods either at home or in a small commercial brewery. This advanced all-grain reference book is recommended for intermediate, advanced and professional small-scale brewers. New Brewing Lager Beers hould be part of every serious brewer's library.

Welcome to The Periodic Table of Wine! Instead of hydrogen to helium, here you'll find Chardonnay to Shiraz - grape varieties and wine names, as you would find wine in shops, arranged following the logical ordering of The Periodic Table of Elements. Wine expert Sarah Rowland has arranged 127 wines by their essential colour, aroma and flavour properties, from white to rose to red and including sparkling, fortified and sweet wines too. The result is an engaging pocket guide to wine that makes navigating wine lists and off-licence shelves hassle free and easy for anyone. Do you tend to stick to what you know and like? Find your favourite wine in the table and, in theory, you should like all the other wines in the same column and also the wines immediately to the left or right, regardless of colour, because they all share characteristics you'll enjoy. Then find out why they are similar, how to enjoy them, what to pair them with and even more wines to try in this expert guide.

Love wine, but only know so much? Looking for some guidance on the perfect red? Want to break away from choosing the same old favourites? Are you keen to learn about wine varieties and which will suit the right cuisine? The Wine Pocket Bible is filed with answers to everything that matters in the world of wine, including: * Which wines are best for meat and fish dishes? * How do I interpret labels when buying wine? * Which is the correct way to taste & describe wine? * How do I make a classic champagne cocktail? * How do I go about investing in and storing wine? This indispensible little guide will tell you what you need to know when you need to know it.

Shaken, stirred, clarified, layered, floral, and more, these gorgeous cocktails taste as good as they look.

Garnished with sumptuous illustrations depicting the plants that tell the story of this complex and iconic drink, this enticing book delves into the botany of gin from root to branch. As this book's extraordinary range of featured ingredients shows, gin is a quintessentially botanical beverage with a rich history like no other.

Explores the fascinating romantic history of the Divine Plant of the Incas. Includes how to make coca tea for a mild picker-upper that challenges coffee

The 11th edition of Wine Behind the Label is published Jan 2019 with its most comprehensive analysis to date of wine producers, their vineyards and their wines. The guide remains unique with detailed profiles of individual wineries from all the main producing countries of the world, as well as giving full ratings and scores for their wines.

The Nano Distillery is a compilation of how-to chapters and real-life experiences of distillers who successfully produce quality spirits on a small scale. Complete with formulas, spreadsheets, and first-person accounts The Nano Distillery is intended to provide you with enough information to roll up your sleeves and get distilling. Chapters include the necessary considerations of operating a distillery and making spirits-legalities, equipment, record-keeping, recipes, trademarking and design. And finally, you'll hear the voices of nano distillers themselves, who explain what's worked for them and what hasn't.The information here is invaluable and reads much like a series of mini-workshops on distilling and the business of distilling.TOC: Preface: Starting Distillery 291Part One: Getting StartedFive Things To Do and 10 Questions to Answer Before Opening a DistilleryJust Do It-Or Get a DogPart Two: Regulations, Operations & ConstructionSeven Key Considerations for Designing a Nano DistilleryTen Dos and Don'ts for Working with Your Local Code OfficialsTrademark Tips For Small DistillersCorrect Alcohol Dilution Calculation for DistillersNano Distillery Record KeepingEssential Equipment for a Startup Nano DistilleryPart Three: Production TechniquesHow Distillation WorksSeven Steps to Make Award-Winning Whiskey in Your BasementGin Styles and TechniquesCooking Corn Mash at Whiskey GapMashing and Distilling at Old FlatheadPart Four: Nano Distillery ProfilesEpilogue: Great Notch DistilleryAppendix: Nano Distillery Cost Modeling Spreadsheet

Charles Bamforth takes readers through the beer making process, offering insight into the people behind your favorite beers and what consumers should think about when buying and enjoying store-bought beer.

Winemakers Éric and Saskia de Rothschild lead readers through 150 vintages of Château Lafite, revealing key moments since the family arrived in 1868, along with scientific and climatic data and visual memories from the château''s archives.Over the past 150 years, six generations of the Rothschild family have attended to the winemaking tradition, developing Château Lafite''s reputation and transforming this classified Premier Grand Cru into a benchmark for fine wine in Bordeaux. Discover how this occurred and what actually lies behind Lafite''s label through stories from the tightly-knit team of men and women who tend to Lafite wines--from vineyard workers to barrel makers, and harvesters to winemakers.A chronology introducing each of the 150 vintages includes informative tasting notes, meteorological aspects, and the grape blends that mark each vintage. An archival gem has been unearthed for each year: from the harvesters'' menu in 1922 to portraits by master photographers like Robert Doisneau, Richard Avedon, and Paolo Roversi. Space to record personal tasting notes allows readers to make this book their own, building their wine knowledge over time.The Lafite story--illustrated here with historical documents, press clippings, and photographs--combines deep respect for tradition with a commitment to evolve with the times, protecting Lafite''s singular, vibrant, and evolving legacy for the next 150 years.

Just the Tonic is an accessible yet informative history of tonic water: its connections to the major disease malaria, the cure discovered in the bark of the cinchona tree and its constituent alkaloid quinine. It is a history deeply intertwined with botanical exploration and empire in the Victorian era, and the role of botanical gardens such as Kew.

Pink gin has never been more popular so why not shake up your own rosy-hued cocktails at home with more than 25 perfectly-pink recipes.