Food and drink: beverages

Once little more than party fuel, tequila has graduated to the status of fine sipping spirit.

Best All-Time Booze Book, Eater.

Home Brewing: 70 Top Secrets & Tricks To Beer Brewing Right The First Time: A Guide To Home Brew Any Beer You Want is the definitive book on making quality beers at home.

Ever wondered how to brew your own beer?

Those who love food and travel can now enjoy a tasty collection of tapas-styles small plates based on Chef Marisol Murano's experience as an International Destination Chef.

The perfect keg.

A delectable peek at the tradition of afternoon tea at the Fairmont Empress Hotel -- and the enchanting history of taking teaMuriel Moffat has been sipping tea at Victoria's storied Empress Hotel for 60 years -- and sharing all those lovely cups with four generations of Moffats.

Thoughtfully conceived and very well written, this is essential somm reading.

Descorchados is celebrating its 25th anniversary.

Water is arguably the most critical and least understood of the foundation elements in brewing.

Have you ever found yourself doing less and less homebrewing, or being too intimidated to take up the brewing to begin with?

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How to Brew is the definitive guide to making quality beers at home.

Brewed centuries ago by monks and nuns, this copper-colored, full-bodied ale has a proud and unbroken brewing tradition dating back to the beginning of civilization.

Mild ale is a simple beer to make, but an extremely difficult style to pin down.

This Mother of all Beers has come a long way since its murky beginnings as the first beer style ever produced.

A comprehensive look at this once-forgotten beer style, Bock covers the history, style profiles, procedures and recipes of this unique family of beers.

This is the first comprehensive book ever written on the sacred aspects of indigenous, historical psychotropic and herbal healing beers of the world.

From defining off-flavors to analyzing competition-winning beers, Evaluating Beer will help develop your tasting and evaluating skills.

In Prost!

For centuries smoke-flavored beers, also known as rauchbier, survived modernization in a small enclave centered around Bamberg, Germany.

Never before has the evolution of pale ale been so thoroughly explored.

A definitive and fresh account of the role of beer in our country’s founding and formative years.

Wine was produced in Burgundy and Bordeaux by the Romans and almost certainly by the Celts before them.

Explore the evolution of one of craft beer’s most popular styles, India pale ale.

Brewing with Cannabis introduces the convergence of marijuana and brewing in the modern craft beer movement.

Learn the brewing secrets for hearty barley wines.

Explore the sensation of tart, fruity and refreshing Gose-style beers, popular in Germany centuries ago and experiencing a renaissance today.

One of the most exciting and dynamic segments of today’s craft brewing scene , American-brewed sour beers are designed intentionally to be tart and may be inoculated with souring bacteria, fermented with wild yeast or fruit, aged in barrels or blended with younger beer.

Helles was first created in Munich n 1894, it is perhaps the most delicate beer imaginable.

Considered the father of all lagers, continental pilsener changed the course of brewing around the world.

The Nashville community, with its collective thirst for brews that are more pleasing to their palates, is but a microcosm in this surging universe of bubbly artisan beverages.

The ubiquity of gluten-containing grains, such as barley, wheat, and rye, in modern-day brewing has prevented many potential consumers from fully enjoying the craft beer revolution.

One of the most successful and respected homebrewers in America and highest ranking judges in the BJCP, there are few candidates better placed than Gordon Strong to give advice on how to take your homebrew to the next level.

"e;As I am someone who has grown to actually like Malort, you may doubt my taste.

Shake up the party with these fun, festive, and colorful alcohol-free dirty sodas, punches, floats, milkshakes, lemonades, iced teas, spritzers, and refreshers!

'One of the best cookbooks of the summer season' ForbesThis ingenious collection of 75 cocktails made directly inside the bottle to store in the freezer means your drink is ready when you are.

Baijiu and Huangjiu are the mainstream alcoholic drinks in China because of their long history and abundant cultural components.

Wayward Tendrils of the Vine, though, is much more than a collection of reminiscences.

Better known for their tales of an Irish R.

Andrew Jefford is, in the words of winemaker Randall Grahm, 'the most thoughtful person we have writing about wine'.

World's best-loved wine author, weaves the story of his own epic wine journey with an embracing view of everything he has discovered along the way.

When first published in 1989 The Story of Wine won every wine award in the UK and the USA.

"e;Few people have so profoundly informed, guided and inspired generations through their journeys in wine.

Champagne is never a simple glass of fizz.

Wine is seen as the natural partner of many great cuisines, but few people associate it with Persian food, one of the world's most sophisticated culinary traditions.

This beautifully illustrated cocktail book celebrates tropical vacation in a glass: 60 delicious rum recipes, from legendary classics to fresh new creations.

Oz's most authoritative and definitive, yet also his most personal wine book ever.

Michael Broadbent, wine critic, writer, auctioneer and much-admired expert revolutionised the wine trade with his first edition of Wine Tasting in 1968 and has continued to capture the magic of wine for over 50 years, bringing it to the page and to the public in compelling detail, always tinged with his uniquely wry sense of humour.