B is for Beer
a children's book for grown-ups - definitely
a grown-up book for children - not so much
gracie perkel is a fabulous character and tom robbins' prose is as witty as ever. it was a very quick, very enjoyable read. but i wouldn't suggest reading it to your child, no matter how precocious!
probably the most fun way to read up on the how-to of beer. a must have for every beer library.
"A hop is some funky vegetable that even vegans won't eat. Farmers dry the flowers of this plant and call them 'hops'. I should mention that only the female hop plants are used in making beer, which may be why men are so attracted to it. It's a mating instinct... when brewers combine hops with yeast and grain and water, and allow the mixture to ferment - to rot - it magically produces an elixir so gassy with blue-collar cheer, so regal with glints of gold, so titillating with potential mischief, so triumphantly refreshing, that it seizes the soul and thrusts it toward that ethereal plateau where, to paraphrase Baudelaire, all human whimsies float and merge."
full of subversion, bons mots, irreverence and all things robbinsesque, i thoroughly enjoyed every well-placed word and illustration!
a grown-up book for children - not so much
gracie perkel is a fabulous character and tom robbins' prose is as witty as ever. it was a very quick, very enjoyable read. but i wouldn't suggest reading it to your child, no matter how precocious!
probably the most fun way to read up on the how-to of beer. a must have for every beer library.
"A hop is some funky vegetable that even vegans won't eat. Farmers dry the flowers of this plant and call them 'hops'. I should mention that only the female hop plants are used in making beer, which may be why men are so attracted to it. It's a mating instinct... when brewers combine hops with yeast and grain and water, and allow the mixture to ferment - to rot - it magically produces an elixir so gassy with blue-collar cheer, so regal with glints of gold, so titillating with potential mischief, so triumphantly refreshing, that it seizes the soul and thrusts it toward that ethereal plateau where, to paraphrase Baudelaire, all human whimsies float and merge."
full of subversion, bons mots, irreverence and all things robbinsesque, i thoroughly enjoyed every well-placed word and illustration!
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