A Natural History of Beer, Rob DeSalle
A Natural History of Beer, Rob DeSalle
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A Natural History of Beer

Author: Rob DeSalle, Ian Tattersall

Narrator: Johnny Heller

Unabridged: 6 hr 59 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 02/26/2019


Synopsis

A celebration of beer-its science, its history, and its impact on human culture What can beer teach us about biology, history, and the natural world? From ancient Mesopotamian fermentation practices to the resurgent American craft brewery, Rob DeSalle and Ian Tattersall peruse the historical record and traverse the globe for engaging and often surprising stories about beer. They explain how we came to drink beer, what ingredients combine to give beers their distinctive flavors, how beer's chemistry works at the molecular level, and how various societies have regulated the production and consumption of beer. Drawing from such diverse subject areas as animal behavior, ecology, history, archaeology, chemistry, sociology, law, genetics, physiology, neurobiology, and more, DeSalle and Tattersall entertain and inform with their engaging stories of beer throughout human history and the science behind it all. Readers are invited to grab a beer and explore the fascinating history of its creation.

About Rob DeSalle

Rob DeSalle is curator at the American Museum of Natural History, where he has curated or cocurated six highly praised exhibitions and leads a research group in the Sackler Institute for Comparative Genomics. He is the author or coauthor of fifteen books, including Welcome to the Genome. He lives in New York City.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Henrique on August 22, 2020

Interesting, though at times he goes into too much detail about topics that aren't exactly beer. You can clearly see his scientific background come through, but at time it seems a little too much and diverges from the main topic. Worth the read.......more

Goodreads review by Stephane on February 29, 2020

A Natural History of Beer Rob DeSalle & Ian Tattersall Well, I like beer. As I mentioned in a previous review, about a year ago, I found myself in a rut; I always drank the same mass produced brew and did not take any real pleasure in it. That’s when I went on a quest to try different beers, and I pro......more

Goodreads review by প্রীতম on May 09, 2021

The feeling of thirst is the psychological correlate of the metabolic functions of water. In direct importance drink comes after air, and before food. Thus, in the field of social psychology, drink has played a more important part than food, specially since the primitive discovery of fermentation, a......more

Goodreads review by David on February 19, 2025

Picked up this book because my father was an agronomist who studied grasses and worked with wheat and barley his entire career. Put down this book because I only know .01% of what my father forgot about grasses. Genomic prediction was familiar to him. But HIS knowledge was not genetic.......more

Goodreads review by Thomas on February 24, 2021

Before picking up this book, ask yourself: Are you excited to learn specifics about the barley genome and how the subsequent proteins interact with your sense of smell? If not, then this book may not be for you. I like that stuff, so I liked the book. Otherwise, I recommend The Drunken Botanist by A......more