Join authors Dick Cantwell and Peter Bouckaert as they tell the story of the marriage between wood and beer from Roman times through medieval Europe to modern craft brewing. Cooperage is a long and venerable craft and here the authors give a description combining the evocative and technical. The smells, the heat, choosing the wood, drying, fashioning staves, steaming, firing, and assembling into a perfect container—at least perfect until the bunghole is drilled to accommodate the precious ...

Alcuni talentuosi birrai stanno reinventando, sperimentando e cogliendo la mistica complessità che caratterizza i sapori e gli aromi derivati dal legno: a partire dagli effetti acidificanti propri di alcuni microrganismi che abitano al suo interno, dalle caratteristiche organolettiche rilasciate dalle botti e dalle foeder, Birra e legno: guida per il birraio parla della storia, della fisiologia, della microbiologia del legno e dei sapori che ne derivano, e della manutenzione dei recipienti...

The international community can creatively and aggressively address deadly conflict through mediation, arbitration, and the development of international institutions to promote reconciliation. The editors of this book designed a systematic framework with which contributors compare third party intervention in twelve conflicts of the postDCold War period. They examine the role of international organizations_the United Nations, international development banks, and international law institutio...

This volume celebrates the work of Laszlo Zsolnai, a leading researcher and scholar in the field of the ethical and spiritual aspects of economic life, who has made significant contributions to the connection between ethics, spirituality, aesthetics and economic theory. The book offers a selection of essays concerned with the ethical, spiritual and aesthetic context within which economics as a social studies discipline should be situated in order to avoid the sort of dehumanising consequen...