The Belgian Beer Book is a handy compass to guide you on your travels across our beer country of Belgium. Take a look with us at Belgian café culture and share our personal selection of specialty beer cafés. We dissect the secrets of the brewing process which takes us seamlessly to the hugely popular final product that we categorise in various beer styles and beer types.
Do not expect any lists or rankings but you can look forward to an interpretation and taste analysis of no fewer than 133 beers. Practical tips to store, pour, tap and taste all these delicacies are included, of course. We thoroughly enjoy a good glass of beer at the table and so we would like to treat you to several successful food pairings. We consulted several chefs, who reveal the secrets of their beer cuisine to you.
Finally, our handy guide will help you plan your next brewery visit. There is no better way to discover the birthplace of your beloved beers.
In Belgium people take their time to make a good beer. Take your own time to travel around our beer country. And above all, don't forget to enjoy yourself... with a good glass of beer. Santé!
A collection of 200 iconic drinks from around the globe, each of which has changed the culture of the cocktail.
A signature cocktail is a bespoke drink that expresses the nature of the time, person, or place for which it was created. In this book, the author curates a collection of the most celebrated cocktails - from well-known classics such as the Bellini, to the up-to-the-minute Twin Cities from New York's ultra-hip Dead Rabbit bar. Signature cocktails have become an increasingly popular way to define the style and character of a celebrate establishment and the talented mixologists behind them. Each unique drink in this collection is accompanied by the name of the creator, place and date of invention, alongside a specially commissioned image, easy-to-follow recipe, and a fascinating insight into its unique story. Covering almost 600 years of cocktail history, this elegant and uniquely focussed collection will appeal to a wide range of readers - from lovers of cocktails to everyone who enjoys entertaining, food, and culture, to mixologists, bartenders, and industry professionals.
- The ultimate guide for the advanced home brewer.
- Learn everything about brewing processes, maintenance and analysis.
- Technical, in-depth and yet accessible.
- Written in collaboration with the European Trade Association of Brewers, representing 29 countries and more than 10,000 breweries.
This book is aimed at small brewers - professional brewers in the process of opening their own breweries or existing brewers - and focuses on quality measures to improve brewing skills and produce the best quality beer. It is the ideal guide for the advanced home brewer, who does not require 5 years of experience in a large industrial brewery or a master's degree in brewing science, and a precious resource for all small brewers looking to expand their brewing skills, improve their know-how about the brewing process and get more value and benefits from their brewing work.
"The diversity of flavours and colours of rum is as rich as the history and culture that surrounds this alcoholic beverage.
This guide provides an overview of more than 300 different types of rum and then categorizes them using an innovative taste model. For every rum, you receive a clear overview of its origins, taste and aroma. In addition, you can read all about the different types of rum, the production and maturing process, the perfect serve and the best cocktails."
For a long time already, vodka has been more than just Russia and Poland's national drink. From Asia and Great-Britain to the United States: this fire water has conquered the world and is now the most sold spirit internationally. The term 'fire water' refers to its most distinguishable quality: a neutral spirit, without smell and with a pure taste. It turned vodka also into a barkeeper's best friend and the basis of every Cosmopolitan, Moscow Mule or Bloody Mary.
Un livre d'art qui se contemple autant qu'il se lit - en français et en anglais. Dans tout Paris, 30 caves à l'aura cosmopolite ou de quartier, qui tantôt se déclinent en bar à vins, bistrot, épicerie, restaurant ou librairie, tantôt se spécialisent dans les vins du monde, les vins natures, les vins de vigneronnes. 30 lieux de dégustation finement sélectionnés, singulièrement incarnés, racontés par Julie et illustrés par Anna. An art book, to gaze at as much as it is to be read-in French and in English. 30 wine shops all over Paris, some cosmopolitan, some local, some doubling up as wine bars, others as bistrots or delicatessens, restaurants or bookshops. Specialised in international wines, natural wines or women winemakers. 30 places to drink wine, carefully chosen and singularly represented. Introduced by Julie and illustrated by Anna !
Guide des vins de Bourgogne qui présente 33 grands crus : géologie, toponymie, caractéristiques gustatives, entre autres. Avec une cartographie de ces terroirs ainsi que des témoignages de vignerons.
In 1964 - he was 31 years old -, Georges Duboeuf, born into a family of winegrowers that had lived in the Mâconnais since the 17th century, created his company "Les vins Georges Duboeuf." Fifty years later, the founder has imposed his name on the entire world's tables. Today, his name is identified with Beaujolais Nouveau, which he triumphantly presents, each third Thursday in November, as well as crus from the Beaujolais and Mâconnais regions.
A peerless taster as well as a marketing and communication man, Georges Duboeuf has paired his company's image with the most prestigious names in haute cuisine, show business, the press and literature, from Paul Bocuse to Michel Troisgros, Georges Blanc and Guy Savoy, from Patrick Bruel to Lambert Wilson, without forgetting his dear and utterly loyal friend Bernard Pivot.
In this book, written with the complicity of Jean Orizet whose father, Louis Orizet, was Georges Duboeuf's "pen" for 30 years, the man whom Paul Bocuse calls "the king of Beaujolais" recounts his exceptional commercial and human adventure. Georges Duboeuf is one of those men who makes people love France.
Recreate the Connaught Bar's signature cocktails at home, with over 200 recipes for drinks and homemade ingredients.
Step inside one of the best bars in the world and learn how the Connaught Bar's virtuoso mixologists create 100 elegant cocktails - both contemporary and timeless classics - with easy-to-follow recipes and clear instructions on how to recreate them at home. Alongside expert guidance for essential bar tools, glassware, and spirits, there are 120 additional recipes for homemade syrups, infused spirits, and garnishes that Master Mixologist Agostino Perrone and his team use to make their signature celebrated drinks, including the famed Connaught Martini.
Each cocktail recipe is introduced with a narrative from Perrone about the inspiration and ingredients that make these cocktails truly sensational experiences. With a foreword by legendary chef Massimo Bottura and a preface by Anistatia Miller and specially commissioned cocktail photography by Lateef Okunnu, The Connaught Bar is the ultimate cocktail recipe and hospitality book and companion.
Des vins somptueux et denses, aussi énigmatiques que voluptueux, un coteau abrupt jusqu'à l'impossible, d'une richesse géologique labyrinthique, une dimension historique capitale : l'Hermitage procède d'une vérité essentielle et défie la superficialité.
Enraciné dans le vignoble depuis 1481, le domaine Jean-Louis Chave écoute et sculpte incessamment les collines de Saint-Joseph et de l'Hermitage, à la recherche de leur secret, de la vérité absolue du vin.
Ses immenses vins sont l'héritage sensible de pierres revêches et d'un artisanat farouchement défendu. Ils expriment une recherche obstinée de la beauté liquide, beauté inséparable de l'écologie des sites et des gestes fondamentaux du métier de vigneron.
Une passion endurante distingue ce domaine des Côtes-du-Rhône, passion à laquelle ce livre nous introduit avec clarté, en nous ouvrant ainsi les portes d'un domaine aussi célébré que secret.
The area this encyclopedia explores-the Charente and Charente-Maritime, «les Charentes»-is tied together by the eponymous river and produces the world's most famous brandy, Victor Hugo's «liqueur of the gods»: cognac.
Why an encyclopedia? To offer different levels of reading. It can be used, like a dictionary, to look up words, or to read an article randomly chosen out of curiosity (What is rancio? What is paradis?).
There are thematic plates and three special sections identifi able by their different paper and layout.
Interviews with artisans, distillers and artists will acquaint you with cognac industry players. The Chronicles are designed for inquisitive readers wishing to learn more about cognac. In the Selected Quotes section, literature lovers will find some of the most beautiful things ever written about the brandy.
Cognac is a word everybody around the world understands, but much remains to be learned about this beautiful brandy.
A compact illustrated guide to the emerging and enormously popular category of natural wine, a style that focuses on minimal intervention, lack of additives, and organic and biodynamic growing methods. Today, wine is more favored and consumed that it's ever been in the United States--and millennials are leading the charge, drinking more wine than any other generation in history. Many have been pulled in by the tractor beam of natural wine--that is, organic or biodynamic wine made with nothing added, and nothing taken away--a movement that has completely rocked the wine industry in recent years. While all of the hippest restaurants and wine bars are touting their natural wine lists, and while more and more consumers are calling for natural wine by name, there is still a lot of confusion about what exactly natural wine is, where to find it, and how to enjoy it. In Natural Wine for the People , James Beard Award-winner Alice Feiring sets the record straight, offering a pithy, accessible guide filled with easy definitions, tips and tricks for sourcing the best wines, whimsical illustrations, a definitive list to the must-know producers and bottlings, and an appendix with the best shops and restaurants specializing in natural wine across the country, making this the must-buy and must-gift wine book of the year.
Une personnalité de feu qui reste dans l'ombre de sa vigne et de ses vins. Des vins qui, par leur inoubliable présence, retiennent et touchent pour toujours. Des crus mondialement désirés, mais souvent réduits à des lieux communs, qui ne retiennent d'eux que leur rareté et leur prix. Loin de ces raccourcis, la réalité des vins, de la vigne et des êtres qui les accompagnent sont tout autres. Aussi, au domaine Leroy comme au domaine d'Auvenay, Lalou Bize-Leroy pratique une bio-dynamie profonde et exigeante, une écoute incomparable de la vigne, que ses vins, quintessence d'infimes récoltes, viennent parachever. Ce livre est marqué de leur empreinte énigmatique. Il ouvre délicatement la profondeur du temps et la géographie sensible de la Bourgogne, dont chaque grain de raisin est, au domaine Leroy comme au domaine d'Auvenay, le fidèle et l'ardent messager.
The third Sunday of November.
The famous Hospices de Beaune is putting its wines up for sale. These cuvees, sold to the highest bidders throughout the afternoon, capture die attention of an entire profession and the passion of those who taste them. The world's oldest charity auction began working its magic in 1859. But the Hospices de Beaune is much more than a historical act of altruism. A new page in the chronicle of this unusual "winemaking hospital" is written each year, with each new vintage, and fascinates the entire world.
Laurent Gotti reveals all the aspects of this extraordinary saga: its centuries of rich history, its vineyards, and its vignerons who, over time, allow the development of each vintage. He also carries us to the heart of the auction. Buyers came from all over the world: Japan, Germany, the United States... Many big names from show business, literature, and science have presided over the event... This auction also constitutes the first glimpse of the new vintage, the incontrovertible opportunity to gauge Burgundy, and we accompany the author on a trip through the arcane mysteries of its birth.
Gotti's intimate knowledge of his subject allows us to learn in detail the history and provenance of each of these cuvees that have brought joy to the most exacting connoisseurs for so many years. The wines of the Hospices de Beaune are a gift from history to today's wine connoisseurs. This book is dedicated to them so that they may discover this formidable adventure, this striking testimony to the vivacity and generosity of the civilization of wine!
Pour retracer le cycle complet de l'élaboration du vin, Aline Champsaur a arpenté les vignes, les chais, les caves de vignerons choisis pendant plus de deux ans.
Elle en a ramené plus d'une centaine d'aquarelles et un texte sobre et limpide. Ce carnet de vigne a les vertus du bon vin : il coule de source, évoque la terre ou les saisons, les plantes ou les fruits et célèbre le travail bien fait. Hommage aux vignerons !
Aline Champsaur spent time in vineyards, cellars and growers' wineries for more than two years to record the entire cycle of wine making. She made over a hundred watercolours and wrote a clear and sober record. Her wine journal has the virtues of a good vintage. It comes straight from the land and the seasons, from the vines and the grapes and is a celebration of work well done.
Honour to winegrowers!
"La culture belge de la bière a été reconnue comme patrimoine immatériel mondial par l'UNESCO. Nos bières et nos brasseries, dans tous les sens du terme, ont la cote.
Beerstronomy vous fait profiter des meilleurs plats de la cuisine de brasserie, avec lesquels les bières belges s'harmonisent si bien. Nous vous emmenons dans 21 brasseries de tout le pays et laissons la parole aux maîtres du goût : les brasseurs racontent leur passion pour la bière, les chefs leur amour de la cuisine. Chaque chef propose aussi un délicieux menu « beer pairing », des accords mets et bières dans lesquels les bières belges renforcent les arômes et les saveurs du plat ou, au contraire, créent de surprenants contrastes. Pour que vous aussi, vous puissiez découvrir les atouts culinaires de la bière !
Des bons vivants, les Belges ? Vérifiez par vous-même !"
From the classic Margarita to the Love Byte, «Cocktail Chameleon» is award-winning designer and producer Mark Addison's invitation to join him as he dresses up twelve cocktails in twelve unique variations for 144 signature takes on the classics. Mr. Addison tantalizes with molecular mixology to create the Anti-Gravity, instructs on how to reinvent the beloved Bloody Mary with sake, and invokes the famed royal rose garden with the Versailles. Inspiring the creative mixologist in everyone, Cocktail Chameleon will become an instant ally for hosts looking to elevate an occasion, or a much-needed friend to help unwind and end the day on a high note!
A major global celebration of classic and cutting-edge cocktail recipes that defi ne the way we drink, wherever we are.
Spirited is the most important book of cocktails from around the world - researched and collected for the home drink maker. It spotlights hundreds of cocktail recipes from the past 500 years and 60 countries, ranging from renowned iconic classics to lesser-known regional specialties to infl uential bespoke drinks - each refl ecting the era, location, or bar that inspired it. Contemporary design and a wealth of commissioned photographs create an authoritative, accessible global guide that perfectly distills the cocktail's distinctive essence. The perfect book for celebrating!
Red, white, sparkling or rosé - arguably no other alcoholic drink has had more impact on our society than wine. From its earliest iterations in earthenware jars all the way to the bottles we find lining supermarket shelves today, it has evolved from its use in religious rites along with culture, diet and society as a whole. And with literally billions of litres drank worldwide, our love of fermented grape juice shows no signs of waning.
This little book gets to the heart of our love affair with wine. After taking a tour through a history of its evolution through the centuries, it delves into the nitty-gritty of production before we taste the fruits of all that labour - in moderation of course - and learn all about drinking (and hopefully appreciating) this most esteemed of beverages. As well as a whole caseload of quaffable facts and famous sayings about the nectar of the gods, there is also a glossary of useful wine terminology for the aspiring connoisseur, just in case you need a handy reminder during a particularly arduous tasting session...
For sheer magic, champagne has no equal. It is the very emblem of sophistication, of celebration, of uninhibited pleasure. One of the most closely protected wine appellations in the world, it enhances French art de vivre and contributes to its global prominence and prestige. Ever since champagne was first dreamed up at the turn of the eighteenth century, the region's visionary producers have forged ahead to open new markets and develop local terroirs.
Just how did the cork-popping devil's wine become the blessed nectar of the gods? Whether it's crafted by independent vignerons who cultivate grapes on their own lands or produced by legendary houses, champagne remains an international success that shines in a category by itself, beyond every other sparkling wine on Earth.
From exceptional vintages to an array of more recent releases, this exclusive selection curated by World's Best Sommelier Enrico Bernardo spans three centuries and is illustrated by various tasting experiences, insightful tips and singular anecdotes. He highlights the most remarkable bottles ever produced, all united by the impossibility of ever having them together in one cellar at a time, hence this volume's title. Presented in a wooden box, this edition is bound by hand and luxuriously crafted with hand-tipped labels, making it a must have for all champagne aficionados.
Encompassing a full-bodied kingdom replete with character, a three-dimensional world that can't be condensed into a single stroke, the seasons of cognac linger within me like a dream without end.
Practice wine, 1,000 quizzes on the vine and wine with Amble Wine.
An original reference work that will allow you to deepen your knowledge of the world of wine.
To learn, nothing like practice!
Discover 1,000 quizzes to test your level on viticulture, winemaking and aging, wines of the world and tasting.
Grab a pen, and bon voyage in the world of wine!
A reference book with 6 sections and 47 sub-themes:
1. Viticulture (Vineyard, Vineyard environment, Risks related to viticulture, Viticulture practices) 2. Vinification and maturing (Vinification, Aging, Clarification and stabilisation, Bottling, Red wines, White wines, Rosé wines, Orange wines, Wines and residual sugars, Sparkling wines, Fortified wines) 3. Still Wines of the World (South Africa, Germany, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Canada, Chile, China, Spain, United States, France, Greece, Hungary, Italy, New Zealand, Portugal, United Kingdom) 4. Sparkling wines of the world (South Africa, Germany, Argentina, Australia, Chile, Spain, United States, France, Italy, New Zealand, United Kingdom) 5. Mutated wines of the world (Australia, Spain, France, Portugal) 6. Tasting All our books are printed in France on 100% recycled paper
