DICTIONARY OF DRINK

New Edition, Expanded, Updated and Illustrated by Ned Halley What is aslack-ma-girdle? Or a submarino? How did White Horse whisky get its name?Or Old Bawdy barley wine? How do you make a really dry martini? Or beer?Or champagne? The answers to these enquiries and thousands of others arerevealed in this unique guide to every kind of alcohol, compiled bydedicated drinker and collector of little histories, Ned Halley, who is anaward-winning writer on beer, a nationally syndicated wine columnist andauthor of numerous books on drink. In a straightforward A to Z format, TheWordsworth Dictionary of Drink identifies thousands of individual brewers,distillers and winemakers, as well as the names of their products. Thedictionary aims to be of real, practical help in locating beers andciders, wines and spirits of every hue to their maker and place of origin.Here, too, are descriptive terms used on labels, along with the less-formalwords used by producers and purveyors to promote their products in themarket place. Origins, from village breweries to entire wine-producingregions, are located by nation, province and district. In many cases,there is a mention of when a producer or product was established, perhapsa word about the founder or a brief explanation of a curious-soundingbrand name. The book is laced with historical anecdotes, a thousandcocktail recipes, essys on topics from the Guiness dynasty to theprinciples of brewing, from the discovery of distilling to the history ofexise duty - and illustrated with hundreds of drink labels from all aroundthe world. TOTAL PAGES: 656