Wood & Beer: A Brewer's Guide

by Peter Bouckaert and Dick Cantwell

Book Overview

Join authors Dick Cantwell and Peter Bouckaert as they tell the story of the marriage between wood and beer from Roman times through medieval Europe to modern craft brewing. Cooperage is a long and venerable craft and here the authors give a description combining the evocative and technical. The smells, the heat, choosing the wood, drying, fashioning staves, steaming, firing, and assembling into a perfect container--at least perfect until the bunghole...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1938469216
• ISBN13: 9781938469213
• Release Date: June 2016
• Publisher: Brewers Publications
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"