num_pages: 208
description: Everyone has questions about drinking but it can seem like every bartender (and bargoer) has different answers. Between the old wives' tales half-truths and whiskey-soaked conjectures it's hard to know what to believe until now. Armed with cutting-edge research and a barflys thirst for the truth cocktail instructor Brian D. Hoefling tackles the most burning questions and longest-held myths surrounding that most ancient of human pastimeswith the science to either back them up or knock them down. From the ins and outs of aging to the chemistry of a beer head and the science behind your hangover Distilled Knowledge provides a complete and comical education that will put an end to any barroom dispute once and for all.
language: English
title: Distilled Knowledge: The Science Behind Drinking's Greatest Myths, Legends, and Unanswered Questions
publisher: Abbeville Press