Ett modernt uppslagsverk om alla aspekter av vår favoritdryck. Över 1100 uppslagsord. Garrett Oliver från Brooklyn Brewery har redigerat alla bidrag, med bistånd från Horst Dornbusch. Kom ut i november 2011 och har förutsättningar att bli ett standardverk.

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Most comprehensive reference work on beer ever published Over 1,100 entries by renowned beer experts across the globe Entries on every aspect of beer, including chemical, technical, social, cultural, and linguistic Editor-in-Chief Garrett Oliver, brewmaster of the Brooklyn Brewery, is the foremost authority on beer in the United States Ideal resource for both practical information and engaging beer anecdotes Foreword by Top Chef head judge Tom Colicchio

For millennia, beer has been a staple 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 an over $450 billion industry. With the emergence of craft brewing and homebrewing, beer is experiencing a renaissance that is expanding the reach of the beer culture even further, bringing the art of brewing into homes and widening the interest in beer as an important cultural item.

The Oxford Companion to Beer is the first reference work to fully investigate the history and vast scope of beer, 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 social and political implications of sharing a beer. Entries not only define terms such as <"spent grain>" and <"wort,>" but give fascinating details about how these and other ingredients affect a beer's taste, texture, and popularity. Cultural entries on such topics as drinking songs or beer gardens offer vivid accounts of how our drinking traditions have shifted through 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; the legacies they left behind, in the forms of the world's most popular beers and breweries, are recurrent themes throughout the book.

Collectively the Companion has over 1,100 entries--written by 150 of the world's most prominent beer experts--as well as a foreword by renowned chef Tom Colicchio (star of television's Top Chef), thorough appendices, conversion tables, images throughout, and an index. Flipping through the book, readers will discover everything from why beer was first taxed to how drinkers throughout history have overcome temperance movements and how an <"ale conner>" determined the quality of a beer in the thirteenth century. (It involved sitting in a puddle of beer.)

The Companion is comprehensive, unprecedented, and of great value to anyone who has ever had a curiosity or appetite for beer.

Readership: Students of beer and brewing, homebrewers, restauranteurs, journalists, university and cooking school libraries, beer importers, distributors, and retailers, and the wide general audience of beer enthusiasts. The Companion is an ideal holiday gift.

Editor-in-chief: Garrett Oliver, Brewmaster, Brooklyn Brewery, and Foreword by Tom Colicchio, Head judge, Top Chef

Garrett Oliver is the Brewmaster of the Brooklyn Brewery and author of The Brewmaster's Table: Discovering the Pleasures of Real Beer with Real Food (HarperCollins, 2003). He has won many awards for his beers, is a frequent judge for international beer competitions, and has made numerous radio and television appearances as a spokesperson for craft brewing.

Contributors: Contributors to the Companion come from over 25 countries around the globe and include brewmasters, chemists, professors, professional writers, and historians.

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