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Alcorithm: A revolutionary flavour guide to find the drinks you'll love

Alcorithm: A revolutionary flavour guide to find the drinks you'll love

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This book is a guide to discovering new favorite wines, beers, spirits, and cocktails. It is led by your taste buds and uses your existing favorite drinks and flavors to reveal vast varieties that will also suit your palate. It explores the gamut of flavor styles, from floral and fruity to smoky and spicy, and showcases all the drinks in which you can find them.

Format: Hardback
Length: 280 pages
Publication date: 11 November 2021
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd


Discover your new favourite wines, beers, spirits, and cocktails in this unique and ingenious guide, led by your own taste buds. All about the pleasures of raising a glass. This book tells you what to try next and why. Cheers! Michel Roux Jr. A kind of Flavour Thesaurus but for drinks. A joyful, thoughtful labyrinth in which you can happily lose yourself for hours. Daily Telegraph. From floral to fruity, smoky to spicy, this invaluable tome will tell you how to hit every flavour high note. Esquire's. Best Cocktail Books of 2023. Finalist in the Guild of Food Writers Award for Drinks Book of the Year. ________ Do you always ask for the same old wine, the usual pint, the reliable spirit? It's all too easy to play it safe, and finding new favourites can take time and effort. Until now. Using the algorithm, if you like this, you'll love that, this ingenious guide will lead you by your taste buds, using your existing favourite drinks and flavours to reveal vast varieties that will also suit your palate. Fan of New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc? Try Sancerre for similar grassy notes. Partial to Vintage Champagne? Believe it or not, you may also like a Brown Porter. Those who enjoy Scotch Single Malt Whisky should give a Californian Pinot Noir a go, while a preference for Pornstar Martinis suggests you'll also be fond of Japanese Sake. Exploring the gamut of flavour styles, from floral and fruity to smoky and spicy, then showcasing all the drinks in which you can find them, from wine, beer, cider, tequila, and vodka through to tea, coffee, mixers, and everything in between. There's a whole universe of incredible wine, beer, spirits, and cocktails just waiting to be discovered and enjoyed - if only we can step outside that comfort zone. This book will.

Weight: 714g
Dimension: 160 x 218 x 29 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780241505199

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