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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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The Brewer's Tale: A History of the World According to Beer

The Brewer's Tale: A History of the World According to Beer

Bostwick, William

Paperback

BeerGeneral World History

Publisher Price: $16.95

ISBN10: 0393351998
ISBN13: 9780393351996
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: Oct 5 2015
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.20
Language: English
The Brewer's Tale is a beer-filled journey into the past: the story of brewers gone by and one brave writer's quest to bring them--and their ancient, forgotten beers--back to life, one taste at a time. This is the story of the world according to beer, a toast to flavors born of necessity and place--in Belgian monasteries, rundown farmhouses, and the basement nanobrewery next door. So pull up a barstool and raise a glass to 5,000 years of fermented magic.

Fueled by date-and-honey gruel, sour pediococcus-laced lambics, and all manner of beers between, William Bostwick's rollicking quest for the drink's origins takes him into the redwood forests of Sonoma County, to bullet-riddled South Boston brewpubs, and across the Atlantic, from Mesopotamian sands to medieval monasteries to British brewing factories. Bostwick compares notes with the Mt. Vernon historian in charge of preserving George Washington's molasses-based home brew, and he finds the ancestor of today's macrobrewed lagers in a nineteenth-century spy's hollowed-out walking stick.

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