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A guide to getting out of your beverage comfort zone once a week for a year. Each of the fifty-two chapters features the story behind a unique beer, spirit, cocktail or wine, designed to broaden your drinking horizons. Some correspond with specific seasons or holidays, encouraging you to forget the million-dollar marketing-supported "conventional wisdom" and drink against the grain. It's Cinco de Mayo? There's much more to the celebration than lime-enhanced...
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"Entertainment and lifestyle expert Hilary Sheinbaum explores the incredible health benefits our bodies, minds, and souls undertake by ditching alcohol for a month and provides us with a comprehensive guide on navigating the Dry January and Sober October challenges"--
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"Elegant man-about-town and the director of Bridesmaids, Spy, and A Simple Favor Paul Feig serves up a beautifully designed cocktail and lifestyle guide with hilarious stories"--
Feig is obsessed with cocktails and cocktail culture. To him cocktails are more than just drinks: they are about having great conversations with friends: staying home, mixing a drink, and sipping it as you watch a great old movie with a loved one or even by yourself. Here...
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More than 1600 entries organised in an easy-to-use A-Z format and featuring over 4000 of the world's top producers and 7000 wines Packed with Oz's encyclopaedic knowledge and always honest opinion You can't hold all the wine information you need in your head, but with this handy guide you can be sure it is available whenever you want it. Indispensable as ever, Oz Clarke's now classic Pocket Wine Book is meticulously updated each year. This is the...
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Alcohol can be an item of diet, a medicine, sometimes an element in religious ritual. It is a valued object for the connoisseur, a traded commodity and a symbol of national pride (wine for instance in France, whisky in Scotland). The range of social and medical problems associated with alcohol and the history of related treatment methods (including the temperance movement, prohibition, AA and a range of contemporary approaches) are considered here....
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Kevin Zraly is America's ultimate wine educator, and his entertaining teaching style has made this must-have book a treasured favorite for more than three decades. He demystifies every aspect of wine: grape varieties, winemaking techniques, different types and styles of wine, how to read a wine label, and how to evaluate a wine in just 60 seconds. Ranging from the renowned reds of Bordeaux and California to the trailblazing whites of New York and...
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This collection of 40 recipes for lemonade is filled with classic and innovative flavors the whole family can enjoy (plus a few variations with alcohol for those who imbibe). The recipes show how the beloved lemon pairs so well with an array of unique and delicious flavors-from pomegranate to ginger and cardamom-and creates a lip-smacking beverage that is a refreshing treat for any occasion. With easy-breezy photography throughout plus helpful how-tos...
9) The Joy of Brewing Cider, Mead, and Herbal Wine: How to Craft Seasonal Fast-Brew Favorites at Home
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You're ready to try your hand at home brewing, but you want to try something unique-and you also have no idea where to start. This is the book for you. Broken into three sections-mead, cider, and herbal wine-you'll learn what basic equipment you'll need, what ingredients to have on hand, and author Nancy Koziol will walk you through each step of the process. Along the way, you'll pick up some fun facts about ethical consumption, sustainable farming,...
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This flash fiction can be sipped or slammed, just like the booze it represents!
A cocktail is like an excellent story-bitter and sweet and over too quickly, but the memory of it stays with you. From the Pimm's Cup to Smoking Bishop, the Manhattan to the Moscow Mule, Mixed Up features not only more than two dozen classic recipes and hot tips on ingredients and preparations, but new cocktail-themed short stories from some of today's most popular and...
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A Fun and Festive Educational Tool for Both Home Enthusiasts and Bar Professionals!
Let's face it: just ten years ago, hard cider was something sipped by expats watching rugby matches or pined for by former foreign exchange students. Heck, many people thought cider was something preschoolers drank in sippy cups before naptime.
Not anymore. Hard cider sales have skyrocketed in the last decade, with craft cider sales increasing 49 percent in just...
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When 11-year-old Daley's parents separate, she is thrust into a chaotic adult world. Unable to place her allegiance, she vacillates between the liberal, socially committed realm of her mother and the conservative, liquor- soaked life of her father. But when her mother leaves, Daley's father's basest impulses are unleashed and she must choose between her own survival and the charismatic father she loves. As she nears adulthood, Daley retreats from...
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As the days get shorter and the nights grow colder, a nice hot drink is the next best thing to hibernating under the covers till spring. Here are 50 drink recipes-with or sans alcohol-that offer a great alternative to the usual holiday libations and are destined to spice up any gathering. Caramel Apple Sips come complete with a gooey, caramely-covered stir stick. Or instead of dessert guests can sip into something a little more comfortable-Pumpkin...
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Craft beer's most popular style, India Pale Ale, is experiencing a flavor revolution. Brewers are using a wide range of flavors to push the boundaries of the style, from cocoa nibs to coffee, fruits to vegetables, spices, herbs, and even wood, brewers are using a wide range of flavors to push the boundaries of the style. Explore the ways creative ingredients are being, used in brewing these highly hopped beers and try your own version using 24 recipes...
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Uncork your understanding of wine and develop your palate with 30 tasting lessons
Ever wish you were the one to confidently grab the wine list and make a fantastic choice for the table? Wine Taster's Guide is your step-by-step manual to understanding why different wines taste the way they do through 30 tastings. You'll learn how grape varieties, wine-making processes, and regional styles impact the wine you drink.
Find out how aging can affect...
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While the term "session beer" as a style description has only been around since the 1980s, many classic beer styles, like Pilsner, Kölsch, cream ale, and English mild and bitter, to name a few, have been a crucial part of "session" culture for beer drinkers for centuries. In more recent years, many craft brewers in America have begun producing additional low-alcohol drinks, providing sessionable examples of customarily strong beers. Nowadays, the...
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This vintage book contains a fascinating and light-hearted treatise on beer and ale, with historical information, details of notable events, descriptions of varieties, and much more. Easy to digest and highly entertaining, this book is recommended for anyone with an interest in the history and development of brewing, and would make for a worthy addition to any collection. Contents include: "Suppression of Beer-shops in Egypt 2,00 B.C.", "Brewing in...
18) The Beer Journal
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Explore beer styles and log your tastings in this compact journal. The Beer Journal is more than just a journal. This compact guide is a crash course in the many styles of beer and how to approach them in a tasting. Perfect for newcomers to the craft beer scene as well as longtime fans of the beverage, this book is an excellent way to learn about styles you've yet to try. These pages are filled with useful information on the beers themselves and tips...
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Go on a tasting tour and sample the best 150 beers in North America, without ever leaving home! Scott R. Russell shows you how to brew in your own kitchen clones of Moosehead Lager from Maine, St. Ambroise Stout from Quebec, Honey Weizen from Oregon, and all of your other favorites. Each recipe uses only basic brewing equipment and comes with partial-mash, all-extract, and all-grain instructions. Expand your brewing repertoire while enjoying the greatest...
20) Home Brewing
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If you like the idea of raising a glass of home-brewed mulled wine or Christmas ale on a cold winter's night, then this is the book for you. A complete guide to the home brewer's year, it describes how the brewing process works and the equipment you will need, before taking you through all the brewing seasons with delicious beer, wine, cider, perry and cocktail recipes. Whether you are new to home brewing or whether you want to expand your range this...
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