What kind of beer ages well? This book explains how to identify a cellar-worthy beer, what to look for when tasting vintage beers, the science behind the aging process, and how to plan and organize a beer cellar. It also includes a buying guide to commonly available and rare vintage beers.
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What kind of beer ages well? This book explains how to identify a cellar-worthy beer, what to look for when tasting vintage beers, the science behind the aging process, and how to plan and organize a beer cellar. It also includes a buying guide to commonly available and rare vintage beers.
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2014 Gold Medal Winner from the North American Guild of Beer Writers for Best Beer Book Like good wine, certain beers can be aged under the right conditions to enhance and change their flavors in interesting and delicious ways. Good candidates for cellaring are either strong, sour, or smoked beers, such as barleywines, rauchbiers, and lambics. Patrick Dawson gives a list of easy-to-follow rules that lay the groundwork for identifying these cellar-worthy beers and then delves into the mysteries behind how and why they age as they do. Beer styles known for aging well are discussed and detailed profiles of commonly available beers that fall into these categories are included. There is also a short travel guide for bars and restaurants that specialize in vintage beer gives readers a way to taste what this new craft beer frontier is all about.
Critic Reviews
“"Vintage Beer teaches you everything you need to know about aged beers." --Cool Material.com”
"Dawson makes aging beer easy, using a variety of brews like ales, barleywines, and stouts as examples."--Brew Your Own magazine
"Dawson's guide to vintage brews will have you making room in your crawlspace."--BeerAdvocate Magazine
"This is the manual for serious beer lovers who want to take their beer to the next level."--All About Beer Magazine
About the Author
Patrick Dawson is an award-winning beer writer, an avid homebrewer, a BJCP beer judge, and a general lover of all things beer. He is the author of The Beer Geek Handbook and Vintage Beer, and has written for DRAFT Magazine, Zymurgy, All About Beer Magazine, Craft Beer & Brewing, and multiple other publications.
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EXPLORE A WHOLE NEW RANGE OF BEER FLAVORS Aging isn't just for wine. Some of the world's finest beers - barley wines, stouts, sour beers, and other strong brews - develop and improve with age, showing richer flavor in two, five, even fifteen years. Closely examining what's happening in the bottle as beer ages, cellaring enthusiast Patrick Dawson provides everything you need to know to build a beer cellar you will savor for years to come.
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