Customer Reviews:
Just not my cup of tea!.......2006-04-27
This "cozy" mystery was just not my cup of tea! The author began the book by throwing in a large number of characters and the most children I have ever seen in a mystery. It was very hard to get a handle on who they all were (even with the family tree in the frontispiece - which is actually a line from the book). Because there were so many people, I felt they were presented in a very shallow way. I like for characters to have some depth so that I know whether I like or dislike them. This just had a large group of people all wanting money. Greed, greed, and more greed. The intended murder victim was EXTREMELY obvious by page 21 and the murderer before I was halfway through the book.
I think this author is just not for me. If you like true depth of characters, intricately woven plots, and atmosphere which makes you feel you are looking over the shoulder of the sleuth, my recommendation would be to choose another book.
Murder on the way to Scotland.......2002-02-14
Daisy Dalrymple is on the way to Scotland for another article in her stately home series. She encounters a tiresome acquaintance from school and her equally unpleasant relatives. They are all on their way north to convince their grandfather and his twin brother(who is also on the train) to change their wills in favor of one or another of them. Alec's daughter Belinda has run away from home and is stowing away on the same train. Fortunately, she finds Daisy who buys her a ticket. Belinda befriends Uncle Albert and his protegee, Dr. Jagai. The elderly man is murdered and Bel finds the body. The train is full of suspects. Alec is called in to solve the crime.
This is a good addition to the series. Most of the suspects are pretty unlikable and snobbish. This makes Daisy, Alec, and Co. all the more likable. I admit that the mystery was easy to solve, but as usual with Dunn's books, the process is thoroughly enjoyable.
A cozy delight.......2002-01-21
This was the first of the series that I had read -- and I didn't feel that somehow I'm missed out on the character development. Admittedly, the plot is a bit creaky for 2002 -- but it certainly harkens back to the golden heyday of mysteries in 1923, the time in which the story is set. It was a fun read. So much so that I'm going to get all the others, too. I'm just sorry I didn't discover Daisy Dalrymple sooner.
Murder and mayhem (really!) on the Edinburgh express train........2001-07-17
Set in 1923 England, this series follows the adventures of the Honorable Daisy Dalrymple, a young woman who has defied convention by choosing to make her own living (as a journalist) rather than let her aristocratic family support her. Her friendship with Detective Chief Inspector Alec Fletcher of Scotland Yard, a widower, has progressed to the point that Daisy has been to his home to meet his disapproving mother and his doting young daughter, Belinda.
In this, the fourth of the series (preceded by "Requiem for a Mezzo" and followed by "Damsel in Distress"), we find Daisy taking the London-to-Edinburgh express, where she runs into an old school friend and her contentious family, all squabbling over the distribution of an impending inheritance. On top of that, Daisy must contend with Belinda, who has stowed away on the train after a fight with her grandmother. When Belinda discovers one of the cantankerous family members dead in his compartment, Daisy has her hands full watching over the young girl and trying to solve a murder.
One of the things I love about this series is the way Dunn avoids the traps that plague so many series writers. In particular, the "set up" of each mystery, and how Daisy AND Alec get involved, feels very genuine, not contrived at all. I dread mysteries where the heroine and the cop keep bumping into each other through a series of unlikely coincidences. Having Daisy call Alec and asking him to get involved is practical and realistic.
I also enjoy that Daisy is interested in solving the mysteries without being a nosy busybody; she simply finds herself in the middle of it all. She relies on Alec (rather than thinking she can handle things herself). He trusts her input (rather than dismissing her ideas).
I'm a fan of the entire series, and this one has a solid plot that keeps you guessing.
Book Description
SWAMP THING: HEALING THE BREACH continues the collection of Vertigos newest incarnation of the Avatar of the Green. With the consciousness of Alec Holland still separated from its former host and scattered throughout the world, the Swamp Thing must face a new threat which is manifesting itself inside a growing dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico and contend with the gradual reassembly of the Holland mind and the pain of reintegration that its completion promises.
Customer Reviews:
great art and interpretation of a secondary character.......2007-03-09
Enrique Breccia is THE artist for horror tales (well, maybe together with Corben...). No other guy would raise a book and a character like Swamp Thing from the average. I think that in this case the art prevale on the script. monsters seem to emerge from Lovecraft's imagination! I think if you loved the moore/bissette story arc, the first three volumes drawn by Breccia are quite on the same level......
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- Excellent Read!
- In Need of Healing?
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Healing the Breach
Rosalind Stormer
Manufacturer: Heavenly Bound Pub Co
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Binding: Paperback
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ASIN: 0972084606 |
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Nothing is going right for Jana Harris. She's stuck in a dead-end job. She's got bills out the wazoo, and her love life just went south. Her recent breakup with Kevin is the latest humilitation she's had to suffer in an already miserable existence. Not only is her relationship with Kevin kaput, so are her relationships with others.
Seeking answers Jana desperately needs someone to share her misery with. But, who is there to care? The only person who might have cared is Grace, her former best friend.
Too many negative things have gone down between the two of them and Jana doubts Grace will be receptive to her troubles. Plus, Grace is saved now, and Jana's not sure she's in the mood for a bunch of spiritual mumbo-jumbo.
But, when things reach the breaking point and Jana desperately needs a friend, oh well, desperate times call for desperate measures. Dare she call her? How will she heal the breach in their relationship, and in her own life?
Customer Reviews:
Excellent Read!.......2004-01-24
Long time friends Grace and Jana have grown apart and their friendship has become rocky, distant and full of anger. Jana thinks Grace's life is always perfect and that she always comes out on top which couldn't be farther from the truth. The fact is Grace is a hurting soul just like Jana but Jana never sees that. Grace and Jana share a friendship of betrayal, hurt and jealousy. The story makes you look at how true a friend you might be at trying times. Or maybe just how important it is to heal the breach with someone who was once close to you. These friends go through bad relationships, wrong choices, the death of a parent, the death of a child and finding GOD. An excellent read. Christian fiction without being preachy. A story of friendship. A realistic read.
In Need of Healing?.......2003-12-31
Those closest to you possess the ability to hurt you more than anyone else ever could. When a friendship becomes filled with envy; when greed and lust overpower Godly senses, allowing flesh to take hold of the spirit within; and when you find yourself entangled in a web of malice, you have been breached. Meet Grace and Jana, two women - one-time best friends, whose only compatibility has become the history they shared. Like fire and ice, Grace and Jana are completely opposites, and these differences are what drew them close, ultimately, tearing them apart.
Rosalind Stormer, author of Healing the Breach does an excellent job exploring the complexities of a friendship plagued with jealousy and selfishness. The books' characters take you on a journey to a place many of us dare not seek truth for fear of what we may find...our souls.
Caught up in the spirits of jealousy and selfishness, Jana is moving fast on her path to self-destruction while Grace continues to move forward in her quest for a deeper relationship with God. Unable to understand the countless misfortunes arising in her life, Jana secretly despises Grace for her good fortune and continued blessings. Jana defends her ill treatment of Grace during her high and low points and in spite of it all, Grace continues to excuse Jana's shoddy behavior until finally, she can take no more. After years of encouraging Jana to give God a try, Grace has decided it's time to walk away. What happens when a now defunct friendship of nearly 30 years is forced to face the painful truths surrounding malevolent deeds? Can years of bitterness and anger be overcome? Can forgiveness bring closure to the pain so that two spirits can begin to heal the breach? Only the defining moment of accountability will decide.
Healing the Breach is a wonderfully written Christian fiction novel that brings a heightened awareness of self to the forefront. Within us all is the spirit of God's light. Without it, we are destined to a world of darkness. Rosalind Stormer presents Christian fiction on a profound level full of insight. Anyone who has ever been the victim or culprit in a web of destructive envy will definitely walk away from this book with a new outlook on the ties that bind us to one another in our circle of friends. Not only for the Christian reader, Healing the Breach has a message for us all.
Collier Lunn, Founder of NarMari Publishing
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Inner Peace - "Without Him there is no us".......2003-11-27
What does it take to awaken thyself to life's most annihilating form, "darkness"...
Very seldom do we read a book that relates to all aspects of life. Healing The Breach, by Rosalind Stormer, leaps into the essence of self awareness, envious mannerism, and injustice between companions.
We have all experienced friendships that eventually taper off without notice, leaving a lot of unanswered questions and hurting hearts. What happens when that bond lasts for over 20 years with a lot of hidden animosity?
Since the beginning, Jana has been a constant recognition seeker who tries her hardest to fit in with the "A" crowd. After achieving this goal, Jana is content with her new found popularity, until she becomes intrigued with a young girl named Grace, who is the total opposite.
Grace is happy with herself, could care less about negativity and finds qualities with everyone she encounters. During a rough period in her life, Grace turns her focus to God and finds not only fulfillment but solitude within herself. Yearning for Jana to follow her newfound faith and turn her heart and soul to God for answers, Grace comes up against a hard wall causing their friendship to slowly diminish.
While falling into a repetitive cycle of self-destruction, Jana relies on Grace for advice, but what happens when you start to envy that advice?
We try our hardest to logically explain our failing relationships, while losing focus on the first and foremost alliance, God. Healing the Breach is not only for Christian readers, but for anyone who has had any type of relationship in their life that has descended due to imperceptible circumstances.
Monique Baldwin, Founder
Flavah Reviewers
Nobody's Perfect.......2003-11-12
Jana and Grace have been friends since they were kids however; sometimes with this familiarity, contempt is what comes along with love and mutual respect. The jealousies are obvious in this tale and at first seem very one sided until you read deeper between the lines.
Ms. Stormer wrote a subtle story that will make you blush from the truths you may be forced to face...maybe even about yourself. Although written under the genre of Christian Fiction, Healing the Breach transcends the lines that divide. I think it's a must read for anyone whose had a friend and lost them...and didn't want to face the reasons why.
--review by Michelle McGriff
Promises Promises.......2003-10-11
Friendship is filled with promise: Promise to keep trust. Promise to be there through thick and thin. Promise to seek first to understand and not to be understood. Promise of loyalty. Promise of forgiveness when falling short. Promise of believing the best when the worse happens. Rosalind Stormer is an excellent debut author candidly penning the tale of friendship found, friendship severed and the redemptive power of friendship. Stormer excels at writing a balanced perspective of both "friends" as they discover whether or not healing the breach is the best promise of all. Many of us can identify with part or all of this story. Healing Breach will inspire you again and again. Will also make you think twice before calling someone "friend." Don't miss it!
Reviewed by Sherna Graham The GOOD GIRL Book Club
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Healing the breach: One Maori's perspective on the Treaty of Waitangi
Hiwi Tauroa
Manufacturer: Collins New Zealand
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Binding: Unknown Binding
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ASIN: 1869500075 |
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From one of America's leading authorities on juvenile violence and aggression, a groundbreaking investigation of the explosion in violent behavior by girls: its causes, consequences, and possible solutions
"Teen Hazing Turns Vicious," "Gang Beats Man Senseless," "Teenagers Indicted for Murder," "School Shooter Sought Revenge for Put-downs," "Youth Arrested in Murder Plot Aimed at Parents." The headlines don't seem remarkable: juvenile violence has always been with us. What is new is that these stories aren't about boys, they're about girls. Just ten years ago, almost ten boys were arrested for assault for every girl. Now the ratio is four to one, and it's dropping rapidly. What's going on with American girls? See Jane Hit is the first big-picture answer to this crucial question, a groundbreaking examination of this hidden epidemic by one of America's most respected authorities on juvenile violent aggression.
In See Jane Hit, Dr. James Garbarino shows that the rise in girls' violence is the product of many interrelated cultural developments, several of which are largely positive. Girls have learned to express themselves physically in organized sports-thirty years ago, the number of boys playing organized sports was more than ten times greater than the number of girls; now we're almost at 1:1. In a number of other ways, too, the cultural foot binding that has kept girls from embracing their own physical power has been removed, which is largely to be celebrated. But nothing happens in isolation, and there's rarely such a momentous societal shift with absolutely no downside. One problem is that girls aren't being trained to handle their own physical aggression the way boys are: our methods of child-rearing culture include all sorts of mechanisms for socializing boys to express their violence in socially acceptable ways, but with girls we lag very far behind. At the same time, the culture has become more toxic for boys and girls alike, and girls' sexuality is linked with violence in new and disturbing ways.
Ultimately, this brilliant, far-reaching examination of physical aggression and the "new" American girl shows us there is much we can do differently. See Jane Hit is not just a powerful wake-up call; it's a clear-eyed, compassionate prescription for real-world solutions.
Customer Reviews:
Finally.......2007-09-07
Ask any high school principal and they will tell you that 9 times out of 10, girl fights are WAY more violent and dangerous than boy fights. They are much harder to break up, and it is much harder to keep the same girls from fighting again because girls are more apt to fight in retaliation for past 'offenses' and slights. QUite simply, girls just DO NOT give up.
Liberal and feminist academics, most of whom do not live in ghettos or lower class neighborhoods (and who are henceforth not very concerned with violence among female minorities), will do absolutely anything they can to convince the public that violence among girls is not a problem, and that, of course, boys are the real culprits. If these people do happen to admit their is a problem, their solution is rationalization, "Yeah buts," and more social coddling.
Of course, the real liberal and femminazi goal is to continue to vilify boys and maleness in general and ignore that anything bad is happening in the world of girldom.
Think back to grade school and high school. Remember the evil cliques, the back-stabbing, the rumor-spreading, all the nasty, covert aggression that girls partook in? Have you ever wondered why women have a hard time bonding with one another in adulthood? It's not because they were so nice to one another in girlhood.
Think about it: How many boys wind up in the hospital for bulemia? How many boys pick on other boys and socially isolate them because they're not wearing the latest Tiffany's charm bracelet? Physical violence is only the surface with what's wrong with girls today.
I don't have my PHD. I've just worked with teens for 20 years........2007-06-08
I think this book offers solid discussion about girls and growing violence. As someone who works with teens, as an author and ministry worker and speaker to teens, I'm not worried about the statistics near as much as what I see happening in the lives of some of our girls. There is more violence among girls. Our younger girls are losing their innocence, many are accepting less than any other generation in terms of relationships, and many are angry.
I love working with teens. This is an amazing generation. They are intelligent. They are able to do more than their mothers and grandmothers, but the reality is that a growing segment of young girls are reacting with violence, and this book offers some insight. Does it have all the answers? Absolutely not, but neither do I, but it asks some great questions and offers some interesting information that should trigger conversations among those who care about our girls.
They need a ZERO star rating.......2006-03-15
Now, I think talking about any child, regardless of sex, being violent is ian important subject. But when you focus the discussion on girls then you're completely missing the point and putting the undeserved and unfair attention on girls NOT BOYS. For example:
Let's say you're a parent and you have 6 kids (5 boys, 1 girl) and every week, your 5 boys fight with each other and they get into fights at school. Every week they get sent home for fighting, cursing, bad behavior, etc. Then one day, your one daughter, who has no history of such behavior, gets sent home from school for fighting. Suddenly its "OMG Peggy Sue got into a fight. What's wrong with my daughter!? This is all the WNBA's fault!!!"
Boys fighting should not be "boys being boys." teaching young men and boys that this is normal, and not calling them out while lambasting girls is such a male-dominated view to take.
ZERO stars folks! stay away!
IMPORTANT BOOK FOR PARENTS.......2006-03-04
I completely disagree with the previous reviewer who slams this book (and others with similar concerns about today's youth) in such a tunnel vision manner. This book is an important social commentary for any parent to read, and for any adult to ponder.
Any parent who has had the challenge of raising a girl in today's violence-filled society, knows the real story. The complete real story may be too big to fit into one book, but THIS book is about an issue that is very close to parents' hearts. And it should be.
Is it alarmist to be concerned about today's girls when it comes to the impact of violence in their lives? I suspect readers will be intelligent enough to read this book for what it is: A concerned and informed point of view about girls and young women.
Another misleading "teen panic" book.......2006-02-28
Dr. Garbarino's book is indeed "shocking" and "scary"--not about girls, but about the continuing decline in scholarship regarding young people. The entire factual basis for this book is open to serious question.
Dr. Garbarino rests his case on the claim that girls' violence has increased steadily and sharply in recent years, especially the last decade. Yet, virtually all of his sources for this alarming claim consist of secondhand citations; Garbarino shows no evidence of having looked at original data.
A "footnote mill" has developed on youth issues, in which alarmist authors such as Garbarino cite other alarmist authors as their sources, who in turn cite him and each other, creating a round-robin of panicky myths with no basis in the factual references they pretend to be based on. At best, these misleading statistics cover only decade-old time periods (selected to make a few upward trends of the past appear to still be going on, while failing to note recent, sustained declines); in other cases, they're simply phony.
As a result, this book is a compendium of outdated, recycled myths about girls, some concocted by unreliable interests and all of them seriously outdated. Examples:
Garbarino: 25 years ago, the ratio of boys' to girls' aggravated assault arrest rates was 10-1, now it is 4-1, according to "official arrest data" (p. 4).
Someone apparently made this up. In 1975, FBI Uniform Crime Reports (Table 35) shows 5 boys arrested for aggravated assault for every girl, not 10.
Garbarino: From 1990-99, girls' rates of aggravated assault rose by 57%, while boys' rates fell 5%.
Very misleading. Why are 1999 figures being cited in a book published in 2006? The FBI UCR (Table 40) shows girls assault arrests rose from 1990 to 1995 and have since FALLEN FOR NINE STRAIGHT YEARS. By 2004, girls' assault rates were 30% LOWER than a decade ago.
Garbarino: There has been a "seven-fold increase in per-capita aggravated assault rates among youths in the United States from 1956 to 1996" (p. 184).
Garbarino cites an unreliable website for this silly claim. The FBI's 1956 crime report covered just ONE-FIFTH of the country and relied on fingerprint records (most juveniles weren't fingerprinted then). The best source, the Bureau of Justice Statistics' National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS, which includes crimes not reported to police), shows aggravated assault has plummeted among all age groups and both sexes, reaching its lowest level in 2004 than at any time since the survey first began in 1973.
Garbarino: 7% of girls get into fights at school (p. 9).
Nothing new about that. The same source (Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance) shows 9% of girls got into a fight at school in its first survey in 1993. Monitoring the Future shows the percentage of girls getting into fights hasn't changed much in at least 25 years.
Garbarino: The 1990s brought a "growing mental health crisis in middle-class boys, coupled with the onslaught of violent images present in popular culture (TV, video games, movies, and music)" (p 14).
Another absolutely baffling claim, contradicting Garbarino's own earlier statement that boys' violence is falling. During the 1990s, as all forms of violent popular culture proliferated, boys' violence rates PLUMMETED as never before--especially among middle-class youth.
From the early 1990s to 2004, both the FBI and NCVS show boys (and girls) suffering and perpetrating dramatically less violence. Boys' rates of assault dropped 45%; girls' fell 32%. Murder, rape, and robbery among both boys and girls plunged by 60% to 70%, falling to their lowest levels in three to four decades. The NCVS shows assaults and other violence against teenaged boys and girls fell by an astonishing 60% over the last decade. Monitoring the Future, the leading survey of high school behaviors, shows violence by and against youth of both sexes, from fights to homicide, declined sharply.
National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) figures show murders and hospital emergency treatments for violence fell sharply among youth. Instead of examining what the best references actually show, Garbarino cites emotional anecdotes (which could be found in any era or applied to any group in society) and outdated, secondhand sources.
Garbarino: "Now, girls are getting more physical when they are assaulting themselves, cutting and stabbing, poisoning and shooting themselves, in record numbers" (p. 9).
How does he know? Records of self-inflicted (suicidal) injuries are not available for past decades. Girls' deaths from drug overdoses, other poisonings, gunshots, cutting instruments, and suicides and possible suicides are much lower today than in the 1970s, `80s, or `90s. California posts hospital ER cases on self-inflicted injuries, whose rates among girls have dropped 10% to 15% since 1991, while Center for Health Statistics figures show girls' suicide rates have fallen by more than 50% (yes, you read that right) and are now at historical low levels.
Garbarino: "fewer than 3,000 kids kill themselves each year," and more kill themselves than others (p 180).
The first half is true, sort of. NCHS reports 918 youths (under age 18) committed suicide in 2003, 203 of them girls. Quite a bit "fewer than 3,000." The second half is not true. More than 1,100 were arrested for homicide. Garbarino is recycling made-up rumors. Why didn't he check primary vital statistics data?
Garbarino: Note the "near absence of girls in accounts of killers in the past."
He must mean other than Caril Anne Fugate (14 year-old serial killer, 1959), Mary Bell (child killer, 1968), Brenda Jean Spencer (shot up elementary school, 1979), the Manson Family girls (1969-70), the murderous girls cited in a raft of official documentaries and books in the 1940s and `50s, on and on. In EVERY era, adults say that youth, especially girls, are getting more violent and hypersexual. In fact, FBI and health statistics show the murder rate by girls nationally is now at its lowest ebb since 1975; in California, the lowest level ever reliably recorded.
There are so many misstatements of basic fact in this book (and in most alarmist books on youth) that a book could be written to refute them. Compounding Garbarino's mistaken reliance on outdated data from the mid-1990s, and his failure to note that violence and other problems among girls plunged sharply since then, is his prediction, in the last chapter, that girls' violence will increase even more in the future.
Ironically, while teenage girls and young women show declines in violence over the last 10 to 15 years, older women show large increases. The FBI reports violent crime rates by women ages 30 to 59--the parents of teen girls--leaped by 50% since the early 1990s and have nearly tripled over the last quarter century (all figures here are rates that account for population changes). In fact, teen girls show the LOWEST rates of violence increase (or an actual decline) over the last 10 to 30 years of any female age group, no matter what time period is chosen. The best evidence indicates that much of the rise in arrests of females of all ages for assault results from new laws mandating tougher policing of domestic violence, not real increases in violent behavior.
Dr. Garbarino's book perpetuates a deeply troubling academic ethics crisis in depicting American youth. Garbarino and his colleagues who have made equally inflammatory statements about "girls' violence" surely must be familiar with the easily available facts from standard references that I'm stating here, yet they fail even to mention them. Predictably, without even rudimentary fact-checking, "experts" and media reporters quickly praise every book (note the reviews here) that claims youth are getting worse.
Finally, I agree with Dr. Garbarino that there are many consumerist, exploitative, even "toxic," elements in American popular culture. However, this does not license scholars and culture critics to buttress their criticisms by exploiting young people as handy metaphors for social decline. Branding girls, even "sympathetically," as more violent and unhealthy exposes them to harsh stigmas, misdirected treatments, and more punitive policies. In reality, girls are doing remarkably well in their welcome transition to more active roles in society. They don't deserve the unwarranted fear campaigns this book and many others create.
Mike Males, Sociology Department, University of California,
Santa Cruz mmales@earthlink.net
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- Too bad its out-of-print
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- technical, but useful and informative
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Lambic (Classic Beer Style Series)
Jean-Xavier Guinard
Manufacturer: Brewers Publications
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ASIN: 0937381225 |
Book Description
After studying this unusual, fruity beer style extensively in Belgium and at the University of California-Davis Department of Fermemtation Studies, Jean-Xavier Guinard presents his findings with detail and historical intrigue.
Customer Reviews:
Too bad its out-of-print.......2007-06-27
Excellent book on the history and chemistry of brewing Lambic beers. Unfortunately it is out of print. Too bad it looks like Brewers Publications isn't ever going to bring it back.
a must.......2004-04-29
If you are planning on brewing lambic beers this book is just about a must. There is a ton of information here and it will get you started on makeing one of the hardest styles of beer to brew at home.
technical, but useful and informative.......1997-04-22
Guinard is too technical in spots, and those chapters go right over my head. Otherwise, this is a good introduction to brewing these rare brews. One thing is needed, a list of sources for the unusual ingredients, like aged hops. Altogether a good and useful treatise
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Fantasy on Lambic Rhythm
Manufacturer: Faber & Faber
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LambicLand, cooperative work by Tim Webb, Chris Pollard and Joris Pattyn, explores the Senne Valley as it runs through Brussels and Payottenland, the unique beer-producing region famed for its production of lambic beers. Contents include lambic brewers and their beers, lambic cafés of Payottenland, museums and brewery visits, etiquette of lambic drinking, and buying lambic beers to take home.
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