Tasting Beer, 2nd Edition: An Insider's Guide to the World's Greatest Drink

This completely updated second edition of the best-selling beer resource features the most current information on beer styles, flavor profiles, sensory evaluation guidelines, craft beer trends, food and beer pairings, and draft beer systems. You’ll learn to identify the scents, colors, flavors, mouth-feel, and vocabulary of the major beer styles — including ales, lagers, weissbeirs, and Belgian beers — and develop a more nuanced understanding of your favorite brews with in-depth sections on recent developments in the science of taste. Spirited drinkers will also enjoy the new section on beer cocktails that round out this comprehensive volume.

• The Brewmaster's Table: Discovering the Pleasures of Real Beer with Real Food
• The Oxford Companion to Beer (Oxford Companion To... (Hardcover))
• The Complete Beer Course: Boot Camp for Beer Geeks: From Novice to Expert in Twelve Tasting Classes
• The Beer Bible
• How To Brew: Everything You Need to Know to Brew Great Beer Every Time
• Perfect Pairings: A Master Sommelier’s Practical Advice for Partnering Wine with Food
• For The Love of Hops: The Practical Guide to Aroma, Bitterness and the Culture of Hops (Brewing Elements)
• Lessons in Service from Charlie Trotter (Lessons from Charlie Trotter)
• Beer School: A Crash Course in Craft Beer
• Yeast: The Practical Guide to Beer Fermentation (Brewing Elements)