The Complete Beer Course: Boot Camp for Beer Geeks: From Novice to Expert in Twelve Tasting Classes - Joshua M. Bernstein

It's a great time to be a beer drinker, but also the most confusing, thanks to the dizzying array of available draft beers. Expert Joshua M. Bernstein comes to the rescue with The Complete Beer Course, demystifying brews and breaking down the elements that make beer's flavor spin into distinctively different and delicious directions. Structured around a series of easy-to-follow classes, his course hops from lagers and pilsners to hazy wheat beers, Belgian-style abbey and Trappist ales, aromatic pale ales and bitter IPAs, roasty stouts, barrel-aged brews, belly-warming barley wines, and mouth-puckering sour ales. There is even a class on international beer styles and another on pairing beer with food and starting your own beer cellar. Through suggested, targeted tastings, you'll learn when to drink down-and when to dump those beers down a drain.

About the Author

My name is Joshua M. Bernstein, and I'm a Brooklyn-based beer, spirits, food, travel and bicycling journalist, as well as an occasional tour guide. Over the last decade, I've written for numerous newspapers, magazines and websites, including Saveur, New York, Time Out New York, Details, Gourmet.com, New York Post, Edible Manhattan, New York Daily News, Wired, The New York Times and Imbibe, where I am a contributing editor.