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The Beer Trials: $9.64 The essential guide to the world's most popular beers, The Beer Trials features brutally honest ratings, full-page reviews, and photos of the 250 most popular beers in the world, based only on brown-bag blind tasting. The Beer Trials also includes a complete reference to the major beer styles, flavors, and regions. |
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The Beer Trials $3.95 From the author of "The Wine Trials" comes the first beer guide ever to be based on blind tastings. With brutally honest ratings and reviews of the 250 most popular beers in the world-both in bottle and on draft-"The Beer Trials" will challenge some of our most basic assumptions about beer. Do you think draft beers and bottled beers of the same brand taste similar? Do more expensive beers taste better? Are imports better than domestic beers? Each beer gets a full-page review, with a down-to-earth description and a photograph of the bottle for easy identification in the store. |
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Year of Beer Page-A-Day 2013 Desk Calendar $12.99 Beer lovers rejoice! Die-cut into the shape of a beer stein and spilling over with brew reviews, trivia, and more beer-related fun, this calendar fills every day of the year with cheer. ISBN: 0761169067 EAN: 9780761169062 |
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Good Beer Guide 2011 $16.96 Now in its 38th year, this guide is fully revised and updated with details of more than 4,500 locations across the UK serving the best real ale--from country inns to urban style bars and backstreet boozers More than just a pub guide, this is a complete book for beer lovers. Completely independent, with no no entry fees for listings, it is revised and updated yearly by CAMRA's 110,000 members. Along with pub reviews and information, the guide has a unique Breweries Section which lists all the breweries micro, regional, and national--that produce real ale in the UK, and the beers they brew. Pub entries give details of the beers served, food, pub history, architecture, transportation links, beer gardens, accommodation, disabled access, and facilities for families. Tasting notes for the beers, compiled by CAMRA-trained tasting teams, are also included. A full-color 36-page features section at the front contains informative and interesting articles relating to beer, pubs, and brewing. Roger Protz is a journalist, broadcaster, and campaigner, and the author of more than 15 books about beer and brewing, including 300 Beers to Try Before You Die. Twice a winner of the Glenfiddich Drink Writer of the Year Award, he also won a Lifetime Achievement Award from the British Guild of Beer Writers. |
The Incredible, Indelible, Immersion Blender
Last October I was possessed by an impish demon. Buy 10 pumpkins and put jack-o-lanterns all over the place. I got tired of carving after 4 and since it was a cold day, decided to make pumpkin soup out of fresh pumpkins. The first step in the process, after yet MORE scooping out slimy seeds and gunk, was to roast the pumpkins, cut them and put the hot meat into a blender and puree it. Somewhat. Then, after adding chicken stock, cream, bacon, onions etc and it begins to look like soup, you have to puree it some more. But the blender could only process a little at a time because the pumpkin would get stuck on the sides. The whole process took forever and created a huge mess. I kept thinking 'if only I had an Immersion Blender'....
So I went out and bought one.
The brand I chose was the Cuisinart Smart Stick. There were others- KitchenAid, Sharper Image. But I chose the Cuisinart because I liked its bad 200-watt motor and the way it felt in my hand. It felt solid. Now for those of you who don't know what an immersion, or wand blender is, its simply a hand-held blender. A motor with attachments like whisks, choppers and blades that enable you to blend sauces and drinks with a wand stuck right into the pot or beaker, as opposed to having to pour into a blender. In the case of my pumpkin soup, it would have made matters so much easier, and the result far more efficient if I could have inserted it into the soup kettle. And I wouldn't have had burned fingers!
But it does so much more. Yes, you can use it like a mixer. But it is also a food processor, a motorized whisk, a chopper, a grinder and something cool you can impress your friends with. You can blend your gravies right in the pan, you can make salad dressings and reverse the blade in the processor to chop fruit and crude veggies. The Cuisinart comes with a beaker that you can use to create smoothies and whip cream.
One of my favorites is Guacamole! Who doesn't like a terrific Guacamole on a hot summer day with a dipped chip in one hand and a Corona in the other? I have created, in my opinion, agruably the best Guacamole in the history of mankind. Here is my recipe:
2 cloves garlic
2 limes
2 large jalapenos
2 medium avacados
lime juice
1/2 cup fresh cilantro
1/2 teaspoon sea salt
Attach the processor section to the wand. Cut peppers in half and seed and core them. Cut them into 1/4" chunks. Smash the garlic cloves. Place the garlic, peppers and the cilantro into the bowl and pulse to chop them up. Cut the avocados in half, remove the seed and scoop the meat into the bowl. Add the juice of both limes, one capful of lime juice and the salt. Pulse until a slight puree is reached. Stop and scrap the sides of the bowl down with a rubber spatula. Pulse again until the desired consistency is reached. Spoon into a serving bowl.
Get some chips- I like Tostito Scoops- pop the top off your favorite beer and prepare to enter heaven! Serves 2.
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About the Author
I am a musician, producer, writer, photographer, chef. I have a website, John Rivera Urban Life where I have showcased my artistic passions. My site is full of useful information about cooking, urban living, music, art and an 'anything goes' section where I talk about anything from politics to philosophy. Guest bloggers are sometimes featured.
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