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The Drunken Botanist: The Plants That Create the World's Great Drinks

Amy Stewart

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Jan 23, 2020 Chinook rated it it was ok

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I’m super torn on how to rate this book - my general policy is that I rate according to personal enjoyment.

But here’s the thing: this is an excellent book that I didn’t enjoy. It’s well researched and has what I’m sure are fascinating recipes and useful gardening tips and a lot of Latin words and some really fascinating stories.

The problem is that I don’t particularly like recipes and gardening and plant names in Latin and in an audiobook format, there was no skipping over that.

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May 31, 2013 David Schwan rated it really liked it · review of another edition

A rather exhaustive look at the ingredients that go into the world's alcoholic beverages. While much of what was contained in the book was stuff I already knew there were sufficient surprises to make this enjoyable--for example I was aware of sorghum but did not realize that millet is the same thing.

Some information was a little lacking. Many people think that American Hops are grown in the Pacific North West (a view the author and many websites put forward), yet many states grow Hops. ...more

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