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 tow...