Title: Cider Made Simple, All about your new favourite drink
Author: Jeff Alworth, illustrations by Lydia Nichols
Year: 2015
Format: Hardback
Page Count: 175
Price new: £5.92 (Amazon)*
*accurate at the time of posting
Description: (TLDR)
This is an American book written with the American reader new to cider in mind. The cover picture is of a frothy pint of beer, lets be charitable and assume this was done deliberately to entice beer drinkers to learn more about cider. No pictures but a fair few illustrations and a few charts, appears to do what it says on the can, a comprehensive introduction to cider in bite sized chunks.
On the back of the book it says:
This book is a gateway to a complex and always refreshing beverage.
New Styles of cider are popping up on restaurant menus and at neighborhood bars everywhere. Here you'll find everything you need to know about ciders and perries (made from pears) so you can choose the style that is perfect for you. Each sip can be full of flavors that you might never associate with a simple apple: pepper, lemon, ciderflower, cedar and soil making cider as compelling a beverage as wine. Cider Made Simple is your key to this newly popular drink, from how it's made by key cider-makers in the United Kingdom, France, Spain and the United States to the amazing range of flavor profiles that cider has to offer.
