Tasting Beer: An Insider's Guide to the World's Greatest Drink


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Beer. It's the most popular drink in the world. Enjoyed at ballparks, in home-away-from-home pubs, on the family room sofa, and in every kind of restaurant, beer is at ease in any setting. For all beer lovers who have known the pleasure of draining a pint, Randy Mosher explores and explains the complete tasting experience as it applies to all the wonderful brews of the world.

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 flavors, 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.


 

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Laurie Gator Said: Warning: Graphs not visible in Kindle Edition ( Aug. 24th 2010 )

This is an awesome book for beer drinkers and beer brewers alike. Randy Mosher really goes into a lot of detail on beer in his book. I am about halfway through and still learning a lot (as a beer brewer).

Fair warning - if you get the Kindle edition, you can't see the graphs with the Kindle 1 or the Kindle 2. (You may be able to with the DX, I don't own one so I am not sure). I would still get the book for the Kindle for the content (so I did not mark it down) but if the graphs are important, you may want to stick with the print edition.

Alejandro Jimenez Said: Congratulations!!! ( Jun. 8th 2010 )

I have the best work in the world...
I'm a Beer Taster in México.
And this book is one of my favorite's books, because talk about all kind of sensations that this magic beverage called beer could have.
I bought one for me, and four more for gifts to my friends.
There is a big difference between drink a beer and enjoy a beer...


Jeff Braber Said: Awesome beer book ( May. 29th 2010 )

Tasting Beer is a great book full of wonderful beer knowledge and insight. The book covers several topics including beer history, beer tasting, beer styles, and food pairing. I especially enjoyed the food pairing chapters. On top of that there are really great pictures and art depicted throughout. This is a great book for all beer enthusiasts from beginners to artisan's.

Felipe Kovacic Corthorn Said: Good, but Mr. Mosher looks at his belly button too much ( May. 22nd 2010 )

It could be said that this is one of the better books related to an interesting topic of beer. Before living in Australia, I never cared too much about beer, preferring wine and spirits, however Australia's less than exceptional wines and expensive spirits took me down the path of home brewing. It has been an exceptional path of learning.

This book is quite thorough, though far from complete, it does not pretend to be an encyclopaedia, maybe I am to influenced by where I live and have lived. It makes reference to some countries, but not others. It mentions craft brewing in Argentina, and no mention of Chile, which has developed a very interesting craft brewing industry.

What about Australia??!! Australia a beer country in it's own right, barely gets mentioned. Whole and entire books have been written on Australia's craft breweries. There is now a quarterly magazine published, for Australia and New Zealand of this industry. True, for a long time, similar to the US, Australia suffered the industrialization of beer. I travel often to the US and always endeavour to try local brews, I would say, trying to be as unbiased as possible, that they still have a long way to go to get to the quality of Australia craft brews, a very long way.

This book gives you good bits of information, but still also lacks significantly.

How can one talk of lager and not mention Saccharomyces Carlsbergensis?! Mr. Mosher gives the origin of lager in Germany and gives no nod to the people who isolated the strain that were from Denmark. This is a very grave omission. One might say it is too technical, however we find ample mention of Brettanomyces, Acetobacter, etc...

It is a very well presented book.

We hope though that for the next edition that there these serious omissions shall be addressed.


K.J. Said: Perfect Introduction ( May. 16th 2010 )

I havent completed the book yet, but so far this is exactly was I was looking for.
It is well written and entertaining to read all while being very informative on the important aspects of appreciating your beer. This book covers the different types of beer & what makes them unique, how to identify flavors & smells, proper pouring, proper glassware, and basic brewing & ingredients.
Definitely recommend for anyone that want to appreciate beer outside of BBQs and beer pong.