Pages & Pints: Josh Bernstein

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  • Mar 13, 2015

 

LPL is excited to welcome renowned beer author Josh Bernstein as the next author in our Pages & Pints book talk and beer tasting series on Friday, March 13th at 6:00 pm. The free public event will open in the Library’s Callahan Hall with Bernstein speaking about his newest book, The Complete Beer Course. Boot Camp for Beer Geeks: From Novice to Expert in Twelve Tasting Classes.

The evening will then continue with tours of Baxter Brewing Co. followed by a reception and beer tasting.  Forage Market will be providing food pairings with the Baxter brews. Portland-based Maine Brew Bus will be available to shuttle participants between the library and Baxter Brewing Co.

In The Complete Beer Course, Bernstein presents a series of twelve easy-to-follow classes that walk readers through the wide array of craft beer styles and flavors, from lagers and pilsners to hazy wheat beers, Belgian-style abbey and Trappist ales, aromatic pale ales and bitter IPAs, roasty stouts, barrel-aged brews, belly-warming barley wines, and mouth-puckering sour ales. Bernstein provides examples of each style, and fills the pages with everything from full-color historical photographs, to lists of beer ingredients, definitions, and optimal serving temperatures. The book ends with recommendations for food pairings, starting a home cellar, and major beer events around the country for travel buffs. Jim Koch, founder and brewer of Samuel Adams, called it “a book you’ll want to have many beers with,” and Washington Post declared that it “might be the best craft-beer book of 2013.”

Josh Bernstein is a beer journalist and critic whose work has appeared in Forbes Traveler, New York Times, and Time Out New York, and has been featured on NPR’s Marketplace and Beer Sessions Radio as a beer expert. His first book, Brewed Awakening chronicled the explosive growth and variety of American craft breweries in the 21st century.

Josh’s appearance at Pages & Pints is presented by The Maine Brew Bus as part of “Weekend with Bernstein“, a series of free and ticketed events celebrating Maine craft beer on the weekend of March 13-15. More information is available at http://www.themainebrewbus.com/.

Copies of The Complete Beer Course will be available for purchase and signing at both the Library and Baxter Brewing Co. on the night of the event. No registration is required. For more information, call the Library’s Adult Services Department at 513-3135 or email LPLReference@LewistonMaine.gov.