Tasting Beer by Randy Mosher
Randy Mosher’s book Tasting Beer is a fantastic primer on good beer, craft and historical, and everything that goes into or tangentially relates to good beer. He covers everything in…
Hertfielder and Papazien: Why it’s OK to thoroughly enjoy a bad book every now and then
Both of these books are somewhat badly written, at least by the standards I judge writing by. The prose is either unremarkable or flawed, given to cliche and obvious tropes.…
Adam Rogers’s “Proof: The Science of Booze” and Why a Little Light Journalistic Fun Never Hurt Anybody
“Proof: The Science of Booze” is a wonderfully fun read about alcohol in it’s every context. Wired writer/editor and Übergeek journalist Adam Rogers has a contagious passion for the study…