Cooking, Food & Drink - beer

For millennia, beer has been a staple beverage in cultures across the globe. After water and tea, it is the most popular drink in the world, and it is at the center of an over $450 billion industry. With the emergence of craft brewing and homebrewing, beer is experiencing a renaissance that is expanding the reach of the beer culture even further, bringing the art of brewing into homes and widening the interest in beer as an important cultural item. The Oxford Companion to Beer is the first reference work to fully investigate the hi... read more

Revised, updated, and expanded, the second edition of "Clonebrews" contains 50 new recipes that reflect the current popularity of strongly hopped India pale ales and American pale ales as well as the growing interest in brown ales, imperial beers, English bitters, porters, stouts, wheat beers, and Belgian ales. The new edition also contains expanded and updated mashing guidelines and a complete review of ingredients and materials. All new to the second edition is a Food Pairing feature that recommends the best foods for every beer ... read more

a comprehensive guide to the very best beers in the world and this book includes incisive entries that provide information on each beers region of origin, style, flavour and how it is made and served, together with entertaining anecdotes about the breweries. Illustrated with more than 800 photographs of the beers, their labels and their breweries, this is the only guide to beers you will ever need. Includes 17 New Zealand beers, mostly from the smaller boutique NZ brewers.

This is the ideal drinking companion - an extensive directory of over 2,000 beers. Beer, the drink to taste, savour, talk about and travel for. You can explore its astonishing variety and rapidly expanding new tastes - thirst-quenching lagers, "meal-in-a-glass" stouts, peppery white beers, tangy fruit-based brews, and classic ales and bitters - with this up-to-date guide to every good beer in the world. You can visit over 800 breweries and read detailed tasting notes for over 2,000 beers from a team of local specialists. You can wh... read more

Features 366 great beers from various parts of the world - one for every day of the year. This book unearths the links between beer and the world we live in - our history, traditions, customs and culture. It guides drinkers through the maze of labels, selecting beers that don't just taste great, but that also have a story to tell.

Beer is the world's favourite drink, yet too often it's shrouded in mystery, myth and complex-sounding terminology. This no-nonsense guide cuts straight through all of this, with simple advice on how to seek out and enjoy the immense range of flavours on offer, in Melissa's trademark chatty style. The maxim that beer should always be fun runs right through this book. Melissa covers all the key essentials: Flavours - explore the tastes you most enjoy and find other similar beers; Practical details - choose, buy, serve and taste beer... read more

Want to become your own brewmeister? Homebrewing For Dummies, 2nd Edition, gives you easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions for everything from making your first "kit" beer to brewing an entire batch from scratch. Before you know it, you'll be boiling, bottling, storing, pouring, and kegging your own frothy, delicious suds. This friendly, hands-on guide walks you through each step in the brewing process at the beginning, intermediate, and advanced levels. It fills you in on all the homebrewing basics with a comprehensive equipme... read more

Beer & Brewer magazine's Utimate Beer Guide covers 33 regions, visiting 150 brewers and listing 1200 beers and ciders across Australia and New Zealand. All breweries that are open to the public are featured, as well as good beer venues, such as bars, restaurants, bottleshops and homebrew shops, plus beer events and things to see and do for the family along the way!

The definitive guide to home brewing hedgerow and garden wines, sherries and liqueurs, beers, ales and porters, ciders and also cordials, teas and other soft drinks. Home brewing and wine-making is fun, easy and hugely satisfying. If you garden or forage, can follow a recipe or make jam, and you enjoy a drink, this is the book for you. Andy's no-nonsense, easy-to-follow guide will enable the beginner and inspire the expert with over 100 recipes including beer made from hops and also yarrow, mugwort, elder and other foraged plant... read more

Brewing craft and artisanal beer has become a labor of love for enthusiasts and epicures the world over, with new people joining the ranks every year. The Brewer's Apprentice is a behind-the-scenes guide to all aspects of this ancient art. However, instead of simply sharing brewing recipes, tasting guides, or buying recommendations as many other books do, our book gives readers unique insights into craft brewing culture, and lets the "masters" share their own expertise. In a series of in-depth profiles, the legends, innovators, and... read more