The Complete Beer Course, Joshua M. Bernstein
The Complete Beer Course, Joshua M. Bernstein
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The Complete Beer Course
Boot Camp for Beer Geeks: From Novice to Expert in Twelve Tasting Classes

Author: Joshua M. Bernstein

Narrator: Patrick Lawlor

Unabridged: 13 hr 17 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 10/23/2018

Categories: Cooking, Nonfiction


Synopsis

It's a great time to be a beer drinker, but also the most confusing, thanks to the dizzying array of available draft beers. Expert Joshua M. Bernstein comes to the rescue with The Complete Beer Course, demystifying brews and breaking down the elements that make beer's flavor spin into distinctively different and delicious directions. Structured around a series of easy-to-follow classes, his course hops from lagers and pilsners to hazy wheat beers, Belgian-style abbey and Trappist ales, aromatic pale ales and bitter IPAs, roasty stouts, barrel-aged brews, belly-warming barley wines, and mouth-puckering sour ales. There is even a class on international beer styles and another on pairing beer with food and starting your own beer cellar. Through suggested, targeted tastings, you'll learn when to drink down—and when to dump those beers down a drain.

About Joshua M. Bernstein

Joshua M. Bernstein's first book, Brewed Awakening, was published by Sterling Epicure in 2011. Josh is a beer journalist and critic who has written for New York, Saveur, Details, Time Out New York, Draft, Forbes Traveler, the New York Times, and Gourmet.com, where he was the beer columnist. He is a contributing editor to the drinks magazine Imbibe, where he writes feature articles on craft beer. As a beer expert, he's been featured on NPR's Marketplace and Beer Sessions Radio. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Terri on February 10, 2014

We live in the Yakima Valley in hop growing, beer producing country; my husband was head chemist for years at a hop processing plant so of course the "know your hops" section was very fascinating to us. And we just plain like a good beer. Strangely enough, Bernstein's wife is allergic to alcohol and......more

Goodreads review by Jordi on June 05, 2019

Lo empecé hace cuatro años, cuando era otra persona. Desde entonces, he traducido un libro sobre cervezas, he asistido a muchas catas e incluso he impartido varias yo mismo. Recuerdo que, en mi primer intento de lectura, me sorprendieron muchos datos de los que no tenía ni idea. Ahora, cuando he vue......more

Goodreads review by Jason on February 15, 2019

I decided to lump both Randy Mosher's Tasting Beer and Joshua Bernstein's The Complete Beer Course into one communal review and post it twice, because both books turn out to cover almost exactly the same ground and are of almost exactly the same quality. That quality is great, though, don't get me w......more

Goodreads review by Joseph on July 09, 2021

This book fulfills the promise of its title--it goes through the brewing process in the first chapter (or class) and then goes through a myriad of beer styles (with a lot of sub-categories) from all over the world. Each sub-category has two recommended beers to try with a list of seven to ten other......more

Goodreads review by Ryan on October 02, 2018

Very good introduction to beer with a thorough cataloguing of various beer types. If you want an intermediate knowledge of beer and beer-related topics (geography, foodpairing etc) this book will get you there. My one complaint is the book spent too much time profiling breweries, to the point it fel......more