Free Kindle Beer Book

I "bought" this today...snooze alert
Its full of useful info, bit man its boring!!!
I fell asleep...
He is a beer genius and would love to have him as my prof...not to mention great on the Beersmith Podcasts!, but this book stinks....that's why it was %100 off

 

Thanks for the heads-up.
As is natural on this site these days, someone shits on it within 6 minutes...

 

Thanks!

 

It's an easy read from what I recall (I checked it out--print copy--a few months back) and worth a glance at least. The professor is none other than Charles Bamforth, whose name should be familiar to some of the more active users of this site.

 

i'm happy to add this to my beer library - thanks for the heads up!

 

I should add that it is free, so the risk is low...

 

Thanks for the info.

 

I take my Kindle on hiking trips so if I can read about beer and have it help me fall asleep then Win-Win baby!

 

I read this book a while back and was disappointed. I thought he'd talk more about actual brewing, but you get a lot of "I remember when my favorite football club..." kinds of things. It meanders. I was also kind of put off by Bamforth's defense of Bud as excellent beers because of their consistency. Sorry, but consistent shit is still shit. Consistency doesn't improve the end product. That argument alone made me very displeased. I got the sense that he didn't want to say anything bad about a previous employer. I also found him to be an arrogant prick (as in, "do you know who I am!?").

 

Thanks for the info...I just picked it up, gotta have something to read on the throne, why not a book on my phone about beer!

 

But he's right about the consistency. Are you sure he was saying it was 'excellent beers' or was it something more process-oriented?

 

Thanks for the heads up. Always cool to get something for free that I'll actually use.
cheers!

 

He was holding Bud up as a high standard, and his only reasoning that Bud was a good beer was, as I said, the consistency. I completely agree that consistency is both difficult to achieve and extremely important for commercial brewers. But by itself, it does not make for a good beer. However, he did not comment on the taste, the aroma, the appearance, or any other factor that most people use to evaluate beer, IIRC. Now, if he had said something like, "Bud is a great beer because it aims to be light on flavor to appeal to as many consumers as possible, and they consistently hit the flavor profile they try for," then that would be a different story. It just seemed to me like he was, for whatever reason, compelled to compliment Bud, but it was a non-compliment of sorts.

I should note that I read this book over a year ago, and I no longer have it on hand to refer back to, either to clarify my memory or to demonstrate my points.

 

Just finished this book. I do have a newfound respect for Bud, but I still don't like it. I learned quite a bit about macrobreweries from this. Also, I don't understand why the author doesn't like hops.... His quote on sierra Nevada was funny to me. Ken Grossman asking if he can "leave things as they are."

 

I took the do you know who I am comment a little more jokingly.