The Complete Beer Course
Boot Camp for Beer Geeks: From Novice to Expert in Twelve Tasting Classes

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

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

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

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

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