Best-selling author Jeff Alworth takes serious beer aficionados on a behind-the-scenes tour of 26 major European and North American breweries that create some of the world's most classic beers. Learn how the Irish make stout, the secrets of traditional Czech pilsner, and what makes English cask ale unique by delving deep into the specific techniques, equipment, and geographical factors that shape these distinctive styles.

Everyone knows how to drink beer, but few know how to really taste it with an understanding of the finer points of brewing, serving, and food pairing. Discover the ingredients and brewing methods that make each variety unique, and learn to identify the scents, colors, flavors, and mouthfeel of all the major beer styles. Recommendations for more than 50 types of beer from around the world encourage you to expand your horizons. Uncap the secrets in every bottle of the world's greatest drink!

Welcome to Beer School, brought to you by the heroes of YouTube sensation the Craft Beer Channel, a guide to everything you need to know about the wide and wonderful beers of the world. In Beer School, Jonny and Brad explain the intricacies of the finest artisan craft brews, including: ales, lagers, porters, stouts, IPSs, and bitters.

Home Brewing: A DIY Guide to Creating Your Own Craft Beer from Scratch is intended as a starting guide to home brewing beer. This book begins with a brief history of the craft brewing industry and its impact on home brewing, then goes into detail about how to get started brewing beer within the comforts of your own home. From equipment to ingredients, we have provided full descriptions of everything you need. It is meant as a guide for absolute beginners.

Based on extensive archival research as well as interviews with the movement's key players going back to the 1960s, this acclaimed book is the most comprehensive chronicle yet of one of the most interesting and lucrative culinary trends in the US since World War II. Acitelli weaves the story of the rise of American craft beer into the tales of trends like Slow Food and the rebirth of America's urban areas, and paints an unforgettable portrait of plucky entrepreneurial triumph.

Starting with nothing more than a home-brewing kit, Sam Calagione turned his entrepreneurial dream into a foamy reality in the form of Dogfish Head Craft Brewery, one of America's best and fastest-growing craft breweries. In this newly updated second edition, Calagione offers a deeper real-world look at entrepreneurship and what it takes to operate and grow a successful business.  

This extraordinarily handy and exciting audiobook is full of practical and charming information on ways to revel in whisky. All whisky styles are explained, along with (just whisper it) blends. Along the way, a few myths are busted, including the idea that whisky has to be taken neat. In Whiskey Tasting, Gary Wines Cappiello explores flavor camps - a way to recognize a style of whisky - and moves directly to offer giant tasting notes of the important brands, demonstrating whisky's topnotch diversity.

Different cultures from all over the world serve food produced through the process of fermentation. These food items do not only taste great, but they are also rich in good bacteria that can drastically improve people's health and well-being.

This book, Marijuana Grower’s Handbook & Business Plan: Techniques & Facts Regarding the Cultivation of Cannabis Indoors & Outdoor by Elia Friedenthal presents common techniques and facts regarding the cultivation of cannabis, primarily for the production and consumption of its infructescences ("buds" or "flowers"). With essential grow knowledge, you’ll learn the benefits and tips of different grow methods, how to maximize plant yields and grow times, the best harvesting, drying, curing methods, and much more! Who’s ready to start their cannabis growing journey?

Would you like to grow some of the green stuff for yourself? Having a personal supply sound more than good? Then you need to keep reading!Here it is what you will find: What Marijuana is and how can you use it, which are the first steps to prepare your indoor Marijuana growing, how to choose the best nutrients for your plants, how to cure your plants step-by-step, and much more!

There are a variety of advantages and disadvantages to growing your mushrooms, and there are also some important factors that you need to be aware of before you attempt to build your psilocybin mushrooms. With the detailed and essential information contained within Magic Mushrooms, you’ll be able to grow and cultivate your mushrooms at home safely. If you’re interested in growing magic mushrooms, or just the history behind them and how they do what they do, then this is one book that you don’t want to miss out on!

Humans have been drinking wine for almost 8,000 years, and it seems like the intricate art of winemaking is back in fashion. And no wonder: It’s easy, stress-relieving, and eco-friendly. Not to mention how much money you can save when you stop buying expensive bottles from the store.

While most people think mushroom is only a vegetable, they have been an integral part of medicine from a long time. Sacred mushrooms have been used for healing patients in the ancient times, even before modern medicine started considering them as an option. There has always been a great skepticism against mushrooms, as with marijuana a few years ago.

Indoor cannabis cultivation has made it possible to grow marijuana any time of year, no matter the weather. The move indoors has not only made cannabis cultivation more accessible and doable, but most importantly, for the ordinary decent stoner, it removes the criminal element from the purchasing process.

Gin’s resurgence is a global phenomenon and a new generation of gin makers are forging an exciting future. Armed with this book, you can count yourself among today’s intrepid creators and build upon gin’s legacy. Award-wining distiller, Marcel Thompson describes the building blocks to help you create high-quality gin.