Brew It Yourself: Professional Craft Blueprints for Home Brewing by Erik Spellmeyer

$8.00 NZD

Category: Drinks | Reading Level: very good

Brew It Yourself outlines the key methodologies for the two most common home brewing techniques: extract and all-grain brewing. Erik Spellmeyer provides professional advice on how to get started, introducing readers to the industry jargon and terminology, while giving clear instruction on the formalitie s of home brewing. The guide then encourages the reader to take what they learned and use that knowledge to create their own recipes and experiment on their ideas. Equipped with illustrations, images, a glossary, photographs, and step-by-step assembly instructions for building your own equipment, this is an all-in-one guide to getting started, no matter what your brewing knowledge. ...Show more

The Joy of Mixology The Consummate Guide to the Bartender's Craft by Gary Regan

$18.00 NZD

Category: Drinks | Reading Level: very good

An original book on the craft of mixology is a rare gem. Gary Regan's The Joy of Mixology is such a gem, one whose genius lies in Regan's breakthrough system for categorizing drinks that helps bartenders--both professionals and amateurs alike--not only to remember drink recipes but also to invent their own. For example, once you understand that the Margarita is a member of the New Orleans Sour Family, you'll instantly see that a Kamikaze is just a vodka-based Margarita; a Cosmopolitan follows the same formula, with some cranberry juice thrown in for color. Similarly, the Manhattan and the Rob Roy, both members of the French-Italian family, are variations on the whiskey-vermouth-bitters formula. In this way Regan brings a whole new understanding to the world of cocktails and how to make them. Not only will you learn how to make standard cocktails, you'll actually learn to feel your way through making a drink, thereby attaining the skills needed to create concoctions of your own. And as Regan explains methods for mixing drinks, how to choose bartenders' wares and select spirits and liqueurs, and the origins of many cocktails, you'll feel as though you're behind the bar with him, learning from a master. Plus, his charming and detailed history of mixed drinks raises this far above the standard cocktail guide fare. With more than 350 drink recipes, The Joy of Mixology is the ultimate bar guide. Ground-breaking and authoritative, it's a must-have for anyone interested in the craft of the cocktail. ...Show more

How to Drink When You're Not Drinking - Celebratory Alcohol-Free Drinks for Any Time of the Day by Fiona Beckett

$12.00 NZD

Category: Drinks | Reading Level: near fine

Fiona Beckett is the author of more than 10 books including Fiona Beckett's Cheese Course and Food, Wine & friends (Cico) and How to Match Food and Wine (Mitchell Beazley). She is the wine writer for the Guardian and her Matching Food and Wine website has followers around the world, with 230k uniqu e users a month, 17k registered subscribers and a social media reach of over 130k across all channels. Fiona outlines the rise of teetotalism and the health benefits of including alcohol-free days as part of a healthy lifestyle. This beautiful and inspiring book includes tips and recipes for flavoring waters, creating rhubarb bellinis and marmalade bucks fizz, as well as delicious cardamom syrups, roiboos tea punch and root beer floats. Whether you wish to create a watermelon cooler or an alcohol-free fruit punch to get a party started or simply wish to make a pair of herb-flavored spritzes for a Friday night in, this book proves that 'no-lo' drinks are every bit as interesting as alcohol. Learn how to create flavorsome, delicious drinks so that anyone can join in a party or celebration. Sections include water, drinks made with nonalcoholic wine, drinking vinegars and shrubs, syrups and cordials, alcohol-free and low-alcohol cocktails, wines, beers and spirits. ...Show more

This Is Not a Wine Guide by Chris Morrison

$20.00 NZD

Category: Drinks | Reading Level: near fine

This informative, witty and accessible book is all about the things that make wine-drinking so delicious and so memorable, building up the steps on how to create an experience around wine both in the restaurant and at the home dining table. It is a quick reference guide with a fun, irreverent straightfo rward approach on how to include wine in your lifestyle, your social life and your everyday entertaining. Food and its flavours and textures form a constant reference point throughout the book, because internationally regarded sommelier Chris Morrison believes food is the narrative that can help 'unlock wine'. As he says, "Wine doesn't make sense without food." By simplifying wine, this book answers the question all of us face when wine is on the menu or on the shop shelf: "Where do I start?" This Is Not A Wine Guide tackles the fundamentals but also moves from the bottle forwards: into the reasons why you choose it, open it, drink it; with what company, under what circumstances; in what glasses, with what food. Chris Morrison provides practical information on everything from how not to panic when the cork crumbles, to what to serve with kim chi hot dogs. The core message is that attitude and mindset are the keys to enjoying wine and including it in your lifestyle. ...Show more

The Craft Gin Guide: Discover Britain and Ireland's Craft Gin Distilleries and Bars by David T. Smith & Ella Carr

$15.00 NZD

Category: Drinks | Reading Level: near fine

Jolly Good Ale and Old: The History of Coopers Brewery 1862-1987 by Alison Painter

$25.00 NZD

Category: Drinks | Reading Level: very good

Penfolds: The Rewards of Patience by Andrew Caillard

$15.00 NZD

Category: Drinks | Reading Level: very good

In the world of wine, Penfolds is synonymous with excellence, innovation, and even a little magic. The tale behind the winery's foundation, its controversial methods of operation, and the characters that were determined to break with tradition and produce something unique is a truly inspiring one. Much more than simply a winery history, this guide is also a practical tool for enjoying a personal collection of Penfolds wines at their drinking peak. Through the senses of an independent international panel, the fortunes of over fifty years of Penfolds wines were painstakingly tracked and assessed over a special five-day tasting. Complete with tasting notes and personal commentaries, the results of this event form a central focus of the narrative. Now in its sixth edition, The Rewards of Patience is an invaluable companion for anyone who loves good wine. This special collector's edition features a black silk-covered slipcase, with a tipped-in illustration debossed into the case. The book is a grey silk-covered hardback with silver blocked title on spine and front cover, a grey ribbon marker, and head and tail bands. ...Show more

The Story of Beer: A New Zealand History by Gordon McLauchlan

$20.00 NZD

Category: Drinks | Reading Level: very good

A Toast to Martinborough and the Wairarapa: Stories from the Vineyards by D. Cull

$15.00 NZD

Category: Drinks | Reading Level: very good

This is the story of the Wairarapa's fruitful vineyard region. Well-known television presenter Dave Cull takes the reader on a journey from vineyard to vineyard collecting stories from the people who make it all happen; the growers, the winemakers - the very people who turn grapes into world-class wine. Dave Cull covers the early history of the area, the ferment of vineyard expansion in the early 80s, through to the Garden of Eden it is today. ...Show more

The Fine Wines of New Zealand by Keith Stewart

$25.00 NZD

Category: Drinks | Reading Level: very good

This is a tasting guide to 92 of New Zealand's premier wines from successive vintages - more than 650 wines in total. The labels included here are those that have established a reputation, within New Zealand and abroad, among critics and wine judges as well as the wider wine-drinking public.

The British Brewing Industry 1830-1980 by T. R. Gourvish; R. G. Wilson; Fiona Wood (As told to)

$25.00 NZD

Category: Drinks | Reading Level: very good

No industry provides more household names than brewing; none retains a firmer place in British culture; and at the height of the temperance movement none was more controversial. Yet this volume provides an extended account of brewing in the modern period. Thoroughly based upon research in brewing archiv es, it surveys the industry from 1830 to 1980, tracing its development from one in which there were thousands of firms producing beer to one now dominated by half a dozen large companies. It is an account which carries the reader from the porters, ales and stouts, the vast vats, drays and myriad beer houses of early Victorian England, to the draught lagers, giant fermenters, beer tankers and theme pubs of the late twentieth century. In this wide-ranging book the authors discuss free trade in beer, the impact of temperance, and the emergence of the great Victorian breweries together with their acquisition of public houses and company status. In the twentieth century, they examine the impact of two World Wars, the movement for improved public houses, the sobriety of the 1920s, and the revolution sweeping the industry since the 1950s. ...Show more

Vineyards on the Edge by Dave Cull

$20.00 NZD

Category: Drinks | Reading Level: very good

This is the story of wine in Central Otago and the wine pioneers who made it happen. Poised on the edge of wine-making viability, Central Otago is a flourishing viticultural region. In less than 15 years, Central had gone from having one commercial vineyard to producing the best 2000 Pinot Noir in the w orld. We are taken on a journey through this remarkable region, moving from vineyard to vineyard, season to season, collecting stories from the people who have made a dream come true. ...Show more