Tasting Beer - Softcover

Mosher, Randy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1603420894 ISBN 13: 9781603420891

Publisher: Storey Publishing LLC, 2009

Synopsis

Beer may be the common beverage of the people, but it is far from simple. With 10,000 years of history, more than 900 identified flavours, dozens of styles, and thousands of breweries around the world, beer is as complex as its grape-based neighbors in the liquor stores. It is an artistic creation, brewed from dozens of possible ingredients and processed in hundreds of different ways. Mosher guides readers to a better understanding of how every batch of beer is affected by each of the brewmaster's choices - recipe formulation, brewhouse procedures, yeasts, fermentations, carbonation, filtration, packaging, and much more. Beer can be light, dark, mild, strong, flat, or fizzy. Hundreds of tastes can be detected in beer, from resin to toast, and from apple to smoke. Readers will learn how to identify the scents, colors, flavors, and mouth-feel of all the major beer styles. There are also chapters on proper serving and storage conditions, and classic beer and food pairings. The second half of the book is a style-by-style compendium of the different brews within major beer families, including American craft brews, British lagers, German ales, and Belgian Dubbels. For each style there are historical and regional facts, taste and aroma characteristics, seasonal availability, food pairings, and a few terrific recommendations for readers to sample.

About this title

From the Back Cover

The Portable Beer Expert
Uncapping the Secrets in Every Bottle

Everybody knows how to drink beer, but few know how to really taste it. Tasting Beeris a lively exploration of the culture, chemistry, and creativity that make craft beers so wonderfully complex. Heighten your enjoyment of every glass with an understanding of the finer points of brewing, serving, tasting, and food pairing.

Edition details

• Publisher: Storey Publishing LLC
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1603420894
• ISBN 13: 9781603420891
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256