The Brewmaster's Table: Discovering the Pleasures of Real Beer with Real Food

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Traditional craft-brewed beer can transform a meal from everyday to extraordinary. It's an affordable, accessible luxury. Yet most people are only familiar with the mass-market variety. Have you tasted the real thing?

In The Brewmaster's Table, Garrett Oliver, America's foremost authority on beer and brewmaster of the acclaimed Brooklyn Brewery, reveals why real beer is the perfect partner to any dining experience. He explains how beer is made, relays its fascinating history, and, accompanied by Denny Tillman's exquisite photographs, conducts an insider's tour through the amazing range of flavors displayed by distinct styles of beer from around the world. Most important, he shows how real beer, which is far more versatile than wine, intensifies flavors when it's appropriately paired with foods, creating brilliant matches most people have never imagined: a brightly citric Belgian wheat beer with a goat cheese salad, a sharply aromatic pale ale to complement spicy tacos, an earthy German bock beer to match a porcini risotto, even a fruity framboise to accompany a slice of chocolate truffle cake. Whether you're a beer aficionado, a passionate cook, or just someone who loves a great dinner, this book will indeed be a revelation.

What Customers Say About The Brewmaster's Table: Discovering the Pleasures of Real Beer with Real Food:

Garrett Oliver translates his love of beer into an almost-equal love of food. I learned a lot about beer styles, the history of breweries, beer and food pairing, and everything beer in general. An easy read that's informative and fun. I do appreciate the random pictures of his brewery tours throughout the globe as well.

This book started my journey into beer and food matching. Definitive and inspiring. Great insight into a developing market.

This book is absolutly wonderful, bought it for the pairing beer with food, and the book has excellant information there. The book also has tons of information on brewing history, breweries and beer styles. excellant book. A friend even enjoyed the book, and she is not a beer drinker.

Very comprehensive and interesting review on the global styles of beers and food pairings. Any fan of real beer should probably own this one, although I'll disclose that it doesn't cover every new USA craft brewery that seem to be springing up all over the US. I don't agree with pairing spicy foods with highly hopped beers, but found no major objections to the rest of the book.

I have read this three times and continue to return to it. The author has a very easy to read style and is very knowledgeable. Reading about biking through Belgium makes it that much harder waiting to go there myself. I highly recommend it for anyone that is interested in beer.