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Prohibition in Kansas City, Missouri: Highballs, Spooners & Crooked Dice
ISBN: 9781467138710 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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86,35 |
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Winemaking Problems Solved
ISBN: 9781845694753 / Angielski / Twarda / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What is the best way to cold settle my white juices? How do I sample for Brettanomyces? What's the best procedure to clean or store a used barrel? How do I care for the winery pump? My wine is too astringent - what do I do? When can I skip filtering my wine? When will it re-ferment and push the corks? How do I best store and ship my bottled wine? Expert answers to these and further questions that arise during winemaking can be found in this convenient reference book. Arranged in practical question and answer format, Winemaking problems solved provides brief, quickly accessible solutions...
What is the best way to cold settle my white juices? How do I sample for Brettanomyces? What's the best procedure to clean or store a used barrel? How...
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897,75 |
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I Heart Sonoma: How to Live & Drink in Wine Country
ISBN: 9780967100135 / Angielski / Miękka / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When Howell left a middling career in Hollywood and returned to his native Sonoma County in California, he expected to find the rural, rolling hills of his youth. Instead he found the bucolic landscape transformed into "Wine County." He soon embarked on a personal journey through words and wine, writing hilarious personal essays on the dark side of "wine country living." Winner "Best Humorous Column," National Newspaper Association.
When Howell left a middling career in Hollywood and returned to his native Sonoma County in California, he expected to find the rural, rolling hills o...
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78,34 |
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My Mother Is a Chicken
ISBN: 9780985848712 / Angielski / Miękka / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An Orthodox Greek combines a love of music with a living in hot dogs. A punk rocker drives a tour bus to Walla Walla wine country and goes rogue. A garlic farmer eats enough raw cloves to perfume his sweat but not enough to repel vampires. A French innkeeper serves a version of pork and beans as old as the crusades. A champion of heritage breed pigs with a radical idea of eating local gets a punch in the snout. Food writer Mark Brown eats and drinks his fill, then regurgitates it for posterity and enlightenment. Historical, anecdotal, poetical, and even a little edible, My Mother is a Chicken...
An Orthodox Greek combines a love of music with a living in hot dogs. A punk rocker drives a tour bus to Walla Walla wine country and goes rogue. A ga...
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105,21 |
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American Grape Growing and Wine Making - With Several Added Chapters on the Grape Industries of California
ISBN: 9781447467335 / Angielski / Miękka / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a fascinating guide to the history and development of wine growing in America.
This is a fascinating guide to the history and development of wine growing in America.
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167,09 |
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A Vineyard Odyssey: The Organic Fight to Save Wine from the Ravages of Nature
ISBN: 9781442221901 / Angielski / Twarda / 202 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A Vineyard Odyssey is a fascinating saga of wine--the journey from vine to bottle--that takes the reader on a travelogue of the many hazards that lie along the way. John Kiger tracks the nefarious denizens of the vineyard world: the host of insects, fungi, bacteria, and viruses, along with the feathered and furry critters, that lurk in vineyards. All are capable of sabotaging a promising vintage right under the nose of an unsuspecting grower. Rather than responding with toxic chemicals, Kiger follows an organic approach to cultivation, explaining how natural and biological controls can...
A Vineyard Odyssey is a fascinating saga of wine--the journey from vine to bottle--that takes the reader on a travelogue of the many hazards that lie ...
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209,48 |
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Home Made Wine and Beer
ISBN: 9781614273875 / Angielski / Miękka / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 2013 Reprint of 1944 Edition. Exact facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. This rare manual contains instructions on the manufacture of Wines and Liquors without the aid of distillation. Also contains chapters on: Art of Distilling and Rectifying Spirituous Liquors and Alcohol Home Made Beers Cider and Fruit Brandies
2013 Reprint of 1944 Edition. Exact facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. This rare manual contains ins...
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68,52 |
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Davai! The Russians and Their Vodka
ISBN: 9781880100721 / Angielski / Miękka / 330 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. You cannot separate Russians from their vodka or vodka from Russia. For over 600 years, this proud Slavic culture has - for good or ill - been inextricably bound up with their national drink. This has been expressed in literature, song, politics, history and every aspect of popular culture. In this comprehensive, quixotic and addictive book, Edwin Trommelen explores all facets of the Russian obsession with vodka. Peering chiefly through the lenses of history and literature, Trommelen offers up an appropriately complex and rich portrait. In addition, most all of the hundreds of wonderful...
You cannot separate Russians from their vodka or vodka from Russia. For over 600 years, this proud Slavic culture has - for good or ill - been inextri...
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109,96 |
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Mezcal: Under the Spell of Firewater
ISBN: 9781939879011 / Angielski / Miękka / 74 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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97,98 |
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Vodka Politics: Alcohol, Autocracy, and the Secret History of the Russian State
ISBN: 9780199755592 / Angielski / Twarda / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Russia is famous for its vodka, and its culture of extreme intoxication. But just as vodka is central to the lives of many Russians, it is also central to understanding Russian history and politics. In Vodka Politics, Mark Lawrence Schrad argues that debilitating societal alcoholism is not hard-wired into Russians' genetic code, but rather their autocratic political system, which has long wielded vodka as a tool of statecraft. Through a series of historical investigations stretching from Ivan the Terrible through Vladimir Putin, Vodka Politics presents the secret history of the...
Russia is famous for its vodka, and its culture of extreme intoxication. But just as vodka is central to the lives of many Russians, it is also centra...
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247,28 |
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The Spirited Baker
ISBN: 9780984604036 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Combining liqueurs with more traditional baking ingredients can yield spectacular results.Try Mango Mojito Upside Down Cake, Candy Apple Flan, Jalapeno Beer Peanut Brittle, Lynchburg Lemonade Cupcakes, Pina Colada Rum Cake, Strawberry Daiquiri Chiffon Pie, and so much more. To further add to your creative possibilities, the first chapter teaches how to infuse spirits to make both basic and cream liqueurs, as well as home made flavor extracts This book contains over 160 easy to make recipes, with variation suggestions to help create hundreds more
Combining liqueurs with more traditional baking ingredients can yield spectacular results.Try Mango Mojito Upside Down Cake, Candy Apple Flan, Jalapen...
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87,92 |
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Molecular Wine Microbiology
ISBN: 9780123750211 / Angielski / Twarda / 363 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Molecular Wine Microbiology features rigorous scientific content written at a level comprehensible for wine professionals as well as advanced students. It includes information on production and spoilage issues, the microbial groups relevant for wine production and microbial wine safety. Microbiology has long been recognized as a key tool in studying wine production, however only recently have wine microbiology studies been addressed at a molecular level, increasing the understanding of how microbiology impacts not only the flavor quality of the wine, but also its safety.... Molecular Wine Microbiology features rigorous scientific content written at a level comprehensible for wine professionals as well as advance... |
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538,65 |
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Spirits of Just Men: Mountaineers, Liquor Bosses, and Lawmen in the Moonshine Capital of the World
ISBN: 9780252078088 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Spirits of Just Men" tells the story of moonshine in 1930s America, as seen through the remarkable location of Franklin County, Virginia, a place that many still refer to as the "moonshine capital of the world." Charles D. Thompson Jr. chronicles the Great Moonshine Conspiracy Trial of 1935, which made national news and exposed the far-reaching and pervasive tendrils of Appalachia's local moonshine economy. Thompson, whose ancestors were involved in the area's moonshine trade and trial as well as local law enforcement, uses the event as a stepping-off point to explore Blue Ridge Mountain... "Spirits of Just Men" tells the story of moonshine in 1930s America, as seen through the remarkable location of Franklin County, Virginia, a place ... |
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89,72 |
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Alcohol and Its Role in the Evolution of Human Society: Rsc
ISBN: 9781849731614 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Archaeologists and anthropologists have realised that man's ingestion of alcohol may well have played a part in his transition from hunter-gatherer to agriculturalist. This book provides a scientific text on the subject of 'ethanol' that also aims to include material designed to show 'non-scientists' what fermentation is all about.
Archaeologists and anthropologists have realised that man's ingestion of alcohol may well have played a part in his transition from hunter-gatherer to...
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149,57 |
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Biology of Microorganisms on Grapes, in Must and in Wine
ISBN: 9783540854623 / Angielski / Twarda / 522 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The ancient beverage wine is the result of the fermentation of grape must. This n- urally and fairly stable product has been and is being used by many human societies as a common or enjoyable beverage, as an important means to improve the quality of drinking water in historical times, as therapeutical agent, and as a religious symbol. During the last centuries, wine has become an object of scientific interest. In this respect different periods may be observed. At first, simple observations were recorded, and subsequently, the chemical basis and the involvement of microorg- isms were...
The ancient beverage wine is the result of the fermentation of grape must. This n- urally and fairly stable product has been and is being used by many...
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1288,00 |
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The Road to Burgundy: The Unlikely Story of an American Making Wine and a New Life in France
ISBN: 9781592408788 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An intoxicating memoir of an American who discovers a passion for French wine and gambles everything to chase a dream of owning a vineyard in Burgundy
Ray Walker had a secure career in finance until a wine-tasting vacation ignited a passion he couldn't stifle. He quit his job and moved to France to start a winery--with little money, limited command of the French language, and no winemaking experience. He immersed himself in the extraordinary history of Burgundy's vineyards and began honing his skills. Ray shares his journey to secure the region's most coveted grapes. The Road... An intoxicating memoir of an American who discovers a passion for French wine and gambles everything to chase a dream of owning a vineyard in Burgu...
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94,25 |
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Old Mr. Boston Deluxe Official Bartender's Guide
ISBN: 9781614274988 / Angielski / Miękka / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 2013 Reprint of 1935 First Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. "Old Mr. Boston" was a distillery located at 1010 Massachusetts Avenue in Boston, Massachusetts from 1933 to 1986. It produced its own label of gin, bourbon, rum, and brandies, as well as a few cordials and liqueurs. The "Mr. Boston" name is known not only for its brands of distilled spirits, but also for its unique reference book, "Old Mr. Boston Deluxe Official Bartender's Guide," used by both professional and home bartenders as the "Bible of Booze." The Guide was...
2013 Reprint of 1935 First Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. "Old Mr. Boston" was a d...
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47,53 |
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The Wet and the Dry: A Drinker's Journey
ISBN: 9780770436902 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Selected as a Top Ten Book of the Year by Dwight Garner, New York Times
A "fearlessly honest account" (Financial Times) of man's love of drink, and an insightful meditation on the meaning of alcohol consumption across cultures worldwide Drinking alcohol: a beloved tradition, a dangerous addiction, even "a sickness of the soul" (as once described by a group of young Muslim men in Bali). In his wide-ranging travels, Lawrence Osborne--a veritable connoisseur himself--has witnessed opposing views of alcohol across cultures worldwide, compelling him to wonder:... Selected as a Top Ten Book of the Year by Dwight Garner, New York Times
A "fearlessly honest account" (Financial Times) of... |
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70,69 |
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Craft and Micro Distilleries in the U.S. and Canada, 4th Edition
ISBN: 9780985259945 / Angielski / Miękka / 702 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Now in its fourth edition, Craft and Micro Distilleries in the U.S. and Canada is the definitive guide to small batch artisanal spirits, perfect for fine spirits connoisseurs or novices pouring into the spirit world and for anyone who wants to find great spirits while traveling. It's also a great resource for anyone who wants to start their own craft or micro distillery. This updated edition includes information on more than 2,500 unique spirits and 580 craft and micro distilleries from all 50 states and across Canada, hundreds of photos of bottles and labels, and information such as:...
Now in its fourth edition, Craft and Micro Distilleries in the U.S. and Canada is the definitive guide to small batch artisanal spirits, perfect for f...
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118,53 |
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Craft and Micro Distilleries in the U.S. and Canada, 4th Edition (Color)
ISBN: 9780985259952 / Angielski / Miękka / 702 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Now in its fourth edition, Craft and Micro Distilleries in the U.S. and Canada is the definitive guide to small batch artisanal spirits, perfect for fine spirits connoisseurs or novices pouring into the spirit world and for anyone who wants to find great spirits while traveling. It's also a great resource for anyone who wants to start their own craft or micro distillery. This updated edition includes information on more than 2,500 unique spirits and 580 craft and micro distilleries from all 50 states and across Canada, hundreds of photos of bottles and labels, and information such as:...
Now in its fourth edition, Craft and Micro Distilleries in the U.S. and Canada is the definitive guide to small batch artisanal spirits, perfect for f...
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274,69 |