Title: The Oxford Companion to Beer (Oxford Companion To... (Hardcover)) Pdf
Author: Garrett Oliver
Published Date: 2011-09-09
Page: 920
Take a Look Inside The Oxford Companion to Beer: "The Oxford Companion to Beer is like having an assortment of 24 terrific beers in one box. Pick one out, pop the cap, turn to a page, savor the beer, enjoy the random read. There are more than 1,100 terrific companions for your beers." --Charlie Papazian, president of the Brewers Association and author of The Complete Joy of Homebrewing
For millennia, beer has been a favorite 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 a $450 billion industry.
Edited by Garrett Oliver, the James Beard Winner for Outstanding Wine, Beer, or Spirits Professional, this is the first major reference work to investigate the history and vast scope of beer. The Oxford Companion to Beer features more than 1,100 A-Z entries written by 166 of the world's most prominent beer experts. Attractively illustrated with over 140 images, the book covers everything from the agricultural makeup of various beers to the technical elements of the brewing process, local effects of brewing on regions around the world, and the social and political implications of sharing a beer. Entries not only define terms such as "dry hopping" and "cask conditioning" but give fascinating details about how these and other techniques affect a beer's taste, texture, and popularity. Cultural entries shed light on such topics as pub games, food pairings and the development of beer styles. Readers will enjoy vivid accounts of how our drinking traditions have changed throughout history, and how these traditions vary in different parts of the world, from Japan to Mexico, New Zealand, and Brazil, among many other countries. The pioneers of beer-making are the subjects of biographical entries, and the legacies these pioneers have left behind, in the form of the world's most popular beers and breweries, are recurrent themes throughout the book.
Packed with information, this comprehensive resource also includes thorough appendices (covering beer festivals, beer magazines, and more), conversion tables, and an index. Featuring a foreword by Tom Colicchio, this book is the perfect shelf-mate to Oxford's renowned Companion to Wine and an absolutely indispensable volume for everyone who loves beer as well as all beverage professionals, including home brewers, restaurateurs, journalists, cooking school instructors, beer importers, distributors, and retailers, and a host of others.
The BEST book Ever! I'd seen this book and briefly scanned it to determine whether I wanted to buy it for my son-in-law, who is a home brew maker. I gave it to him at Christmas; we practically had tugs of war for who got to read through it - this is the most thorough and interesting book on the history of the brew; great reading ... I can recommend this book with no hesitation. I don't make beer, but it was sure interesting!How could you go wrong? As the title implies, you can't go wrong with this book. It is a massive, heavy, coffee-table straining tome on all things BEER! If the Encyclopedia Britannica had a volume dedicated to beer, this would be it. Topics run the gambit in alphabetical order from tasting to styles to brewery histories to ingredients to brewing techniques...just about everything.I can verify another reviewer's observation of some proof-reading mishaps. The most blatant that comes to mind is a page of illustrations of vintage beer postcards, where one that is CLEARLY Austrian is in classic "Dumb and Dumber" fashion labeled as being "Australian".It's a small nitpick, however, for a work of such a grandiose scope, that takes itself so seriously, focused on such an entertaining topic. I can't even imagine how much work this sucker took to compile and write. If you're even remotely interested in beer, you need this in your living room or man cave.Cheers to beer here! Highly recommended for R.W.I. Well written and truly encyclopedic, the OCB is OCD in the best ways. If you love cracking a cold one and settling in with a good book and perhaps some Bill Evans on the stereo, this beery tome looks to be good for years of pleasant mental meandering.I've been brewing beer for ten years now and still feel like I may know the specifics, but the miracle of fermentation bringing mellow joy still happily baffles me. It's fun to learn about all those yeasty beasties in their frothy oceans of ale, and the OCB aims to cover any and all topics the brewer and/or drinker might have in mind; it seems to have hit the mark. There are a whole tonne of somewhat arcane things Oliver mentions here that make for fascinating reading.Well printed on good paper, this volume seems destined to be perused on many sofas for many years while many beers are lifted. And so should it be, for we gentle lovers of ales and lagers have always deserved our own reference book. And this is without doubt the Beer Book we have been waiting for.Prost.
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