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Book SynopsisDiscussing the worldwide traditions and innovations associated with the production of distilled spirits, this comprehensive reference emphasizes the importance of continuing to have a supply of high-quality raw materials as modern agricultural practices change. The source material for this study originated in the 2008 Worldwide Distilled Spirits Conference, where hundreds of distillers from around the world gathered to share knowledge under the theme of energy, environment, and enlightenment to meet the challenges of the future. Tackling environmental issues and emphasizing the importance of high-quality distilling, this sourcebook is an essential reference for distillers, brewers, research institutes, and anyone with an interest in spirits.

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Book SynopsisThis book uses Nottingham, a city in the East Midlands of England, as a case study to examine changing attitudes and responses to drinking and alcohol problems in the UK from the 1950s to early 2000s. Based on original research drawn from local archives and oral histories, it examines responses to drink and drink problems over time, comparing local developments with those nationally. In the 1950s pub going and drinking were viewed by city inhabitants as essential activities, just as now. Author Alan Sillitoe’s Nottingham-based novel Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1958) describes Saturday night as “the best and bingiest glad-time of the week.” For the majority of people, drinking and occasional drunkenness were acceptable and tolerated aspects of everyday life. However, in the 1950s, the idea of the ‘alcoholic’, a medical as well as moral phenomenon, surfaced in society. The book describes how, as this view took hold in the 1960s, it became associated locally with poverty, and viewed in the extreme terms as a problem of the vagrant alcoholic. The vagrants’ ever-presence in the city, coupled with their unsanitary drinking, gave the place an unwholesome look. In subsequent decades, street drinkers continued to inform the local approach and went through a number of transformations; from the hooligan/ drunken football fan of the 1980s to the young binge drinker of the late 1990s/early 2000s.

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Book SynopsisWith one hand alcohol gives us some of the most fun times imaginable, especially when playing drinking games. With the other it delivers crushing headaches and nausea. Sometimes you question if it’s really worth the pain. “Hell yeah!” is the answer, particularly when you have these excellent restorative cures designed to send your hangover packing. Nothing beats a night on the booze, and what kick starts a party better than drinking games? Yes, they’re not big and they’re not clever, but they’re damn good fun. This handy guide contains over 25 of the best drinking games around. All you need to do is read the simple rules, grab some friends and start that fateful journey towards inebriation. BUT... what goes up must come down. So when you’re rubbing the sleep out of your eyes and the drool from the corners of your mouth, wishing you’d only played nine holes of Bar Golf rather than the full 18, you’ll be thrilled you were smart enough to get yourself this collection of over 25 hangover cures that will have you out of bed and back on your feet in no time.

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Book SynopsisThe 1862 Bartenders Guide is the FIRST cocktail book, in its FIRST version, now in an affordable reprint as it first appeared, in Hardback.It was first known as 'How to Mix Drinks, or the Bon Vivant’s Companion' and published in 1862 with 'A Manual for the Manufacture of Cordials, Liquors, Fancy Syrups, etc, etc' by Christian Schultz appended at the back, since any good bartender was supposed to know how to both mix and make.It includes drinks that we still know today like the Mint Julep and lesser known drinks like Absinthe Water, Flip, and Fix.  One can use it to impress your friends making the Balaklava Nectar, Locomotive, and Blue Blazer.Originals of the 1862 Jerry Thomas Bartender's Guide have been costing $2,000 in 2016, so enjoy this inexpensive reprint and spend your savings in studious enjoyment!

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