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Title: Proof
Subtitle: The Science of Booze
Author: Adam Rogers
Narrator: Sean Runnette
Format: Unabridged
Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
Language: English
Release date: 05-27-14
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 1113 votes
Genres: History, World
Publisher's Summary:
A spirited narrative on the fascinating art and science of alcohol, sure to inspire cocktail party chats on making booze, tasting it, and its effects on our bodies and brains.
Drinking gets a lot more interesting when you know what's actually inside your glass of microbrewed ale, single-malt whisky, or Napa Cabernet Sauvignon. All of them begin with fermentation, where a fungus called yeast binges on sugar molecules and poops out ethanol. Humans have been drinking the results for 10,000 years. Distillation is a 2,000-year-old technology - invented by a woman - that we're still perfecting today. And the molecular codes of alcoholic flavors remain a mystery pursued by scientists with high-tech laboratories and serious funding.
In Proof, Adam Rogers reveals alcohol as a miracle of science, going deep into the pleasures of making and drinking booze - and the effects of the latter. The people who make and sell alcohol may talk about history and tradition, but alcohol production is really powered by physics, molecular biology, organic chemistry, and a bit of metallurgy - and our taste for those products is a melding of psychology and neurobiology.
Proof takes readers from the whisky-making mecca of the Scottish highlands to the oenology labs at UC Davis, from Kentucky bourbon country to the most sophisticated gene-sequencing labs in the world - and to more than one bar - bringing to life the motley characters and evolving science behind the latest developments in boozy technology.
Members Reviews:
Great listening to all about booze
I love how this book touches all aspects of alcohol. From the making (and our discovery on how to do so) to fermentation, distillation, storage and ageing in barrels and drinking. I'm a scientist and have a background in every aspect os booze making, and still enjoyed new facts and science based content. I don't have one single reason not to recommend this book.
Excellent 360 exploration of booze
I've been making beer and wine as a hobby for 10 years, and I've read about 2 dozen books on the subject. This is one of the best books on alcohol out there. There's not much in the how to, but an amazing discussion some really complex process not even mentioned in most books. Brilliantly written and read, well worth it.
Great Book on an Interesting Subject
Want to better understand the history, mythology, science and cultural aspects of alcohol? This book does it in an easy to grasp and engaging way. Highly recommended.
Great, fun read!
The story was very well ellabotated, very informative, and the narrator kept you enjoying the story even more by adding his narrating taste, with accents and peculiar emphasis at the right spots
Good Content, a little rough around the edges
What made the experience of listening to Proof the most enjoyable?
There was a lot of neat content.
What was one of the most memorable moments of Proof?
The brewer who built a new roof over his old brewery (instead of tearing down the old roof) because he believed that the yeast that gave his beer its iconic taste was living in the rafters
Any additional comments?
I don't quite understand why this man is a narrator. I found his timbre grating, scratchy and somewhat choked.
