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# Tasting Beer: An Insider's Guide to the World's Greatest Drink

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    A Must-Have for Current or Aspiring Beer Geeks
  

*by T***S on Reviewed in the United States on November 23, 2009*

Before I review Randy Mosher's "Tasting Beer: An Insider's Guide to the World's Greatest Drink," let me give you a few calibration points so you can decide whether to take my opinions seriously or not. I definitely qualify as a serious beer geek. My travels around the U.S. nearly always involve visits to brewpubs. I'll drive hundreds of miles out of my way to have a pint of good craft brew, and I attend as many beer festivals each year as I possibly can. My favorite beers are Imperial stouts, barleywines and Imperial I.P.A.s, such as Alesmith's Speedway, Stone's Old Guardian and Moylan's Hopsickle (among many others). I enjoy the occasional Belgian (the funkier the better), and I consider Fat Tire to be an overly hyped "training-wheels beer" for people who don't know any better. I couldn't choke down a Bud, Coors or Miller if I were dying of thirst, and (yes, it's true) I tend to be a little snobbish toward people who are unwilling to expand their beer tastes beyond the Big Three. So, with that said, what did I think of "Tasting Beer?"Well, there's a remarkable amount of information in its 247 pages, all of it presented in a very nicely integrated text-and-picture form. No matter what aspect of beer culture you're interested in, you'll find it covered to a useful level of detail in "Tasting Beer." Do you want to know more about the history of beer? It's in there, from 10,000 years BCE to the present, in a fascinating 22-page section. Do you want to improve your abilities to taste beer, and to accurately describe its qualities and complexity? It's in there--you'll learn how to distinguish 25 common flavors such as diacetyl, isoamyl acetate and fusels, and whether they're desirable or not. Are you interested in becoming more sophisticated in pairing beer with food? It's in there, both general guidelines and specific recommendations. Do you want to bone up on the bewildering variety of beer styles available? They're all in there, from the lightest adjunct lagers to Imperial stouts. Each style is described and characterized in great detail, including suggestions for which beers you should try that best represent the styles. There's a whole chapter on the modern American craft beer movement and its new styles such as wet-hopped ales, ultra-strong beers and other experimental types. I found the charts showing beer color, strength, etc., as a function of style to be especially interesting and useful, although all of the graphics and figures are exceptionally well done."Tasting Beer" is the best single volume of beer lore that I've read in many years. It is so good that a few of my other older beer books became redundant and have now found their way into the public library donation box. There should still be a place in the beer lover's inventory for such books as Roger Protz's "
  
The Ale Trail







  
  
    " and Garrett Oliver's "
  
The Brewmaster's Table: Discovering the Pleasures of Real Beer with Real Food







  
  
    ." But if you own only one beer book, "Tasting Beer: An Insider's Guide to the World's Greatest Drink," should be it. Cheers!

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Very Recomendable Overview of Beer's Diversity and History
  

*by D***O on Reviewed in the United States on June 18, 2009*

Tasting Beer is a good all around introduction to the history, diversity, and enriching ways to explore beer.While it might be useful to share with beer novices and help break quite a few stereotypes and misunderstanding, it is also a nice volume for beer aficionados with plenty of advice and insightful background.If anything the book might suffer from some top-down style narrative. Mosher tries hard to be amicable and casual, and more often than not does it well, but his occasional cheekiness sometimes can have a patronizing undertone. And while certainly this is a book that emcompasses a broad Western global perspective of beer, he slips a few times adressing exclusively a US readership, which for obvious reasons I find limiting and unnecessary.And yet, these flaws remain in the background of what is a quite recommendable book. While I am just a small aficionado, he supported and expanded those things that I felt comfortable in knowing already, and excited the senses to explore quite a few that I did not know about, or did not know at that level of detail.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Taking the Cicerone?  Read here.
  

*by !***! on Reviewed in the United States on August 25, 2015*

This is a review for Tasting Beer: An Insider's Guide... by Randy Mosher.I purchased this book when I worked for a large macro-brewer in order to pass the Cicerone tests.  This book is an absolute technical guide on how to understand and enjoy all kinds of beers.  It has colorful commentary and excellent resources to help you understanding this delicious drink.For all you wondering about how hard the Cicerone Test is, I passed the Cicerone Beer Server test  with flying colors.  It is time based and multiple choice.  Questions will bounce around from ingredients, process oriented, taste, smell, draft system technique, and situational.  If you have the access to pre-tests, take the pre-test about 10 times.  Just keeping doing it over and over and over again, you will see questions if not the same, VERY similiar and you will know how to answer them.Comment if you have any questions.

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