The Year of Drinking Adventurously 52 Ways to Get Out of Your Comfort Zone [Paperback]

You want a little adventure in your life. And why not? With thousands of breweries and distilleries in the United States, there are more choices than ever on tap and behind the bar. So many, that youre a little bit intimidated.

But throughout the course of a year you can learn to impress your friends by becoming a pub savant withThe Year of Drinking Adventurously, a guide to getting out of your beverage comfort zone once a week for a year. Each of the fifty-two chapters features the story behind a unique beer, spirit, cocktail or wine, designed to broaden your drinking horizons. Some correspond with specific seasons or holidays, encouraging you to forget the million-dollar marketing-supported conventional wisdom and drink against the grain. Its Cinco de Mayo? Theres much more to the celebration than lime-enhanced lager and shots of rotgut tequila. St. Patricks Day? Do you really want to be the 700th person of the evening to order a green-tinted brew and a shot of cheap whiskey?

The Year of Drinking Adventurouslytakes the social imbiber on a journey into the exciting and unknownone week at a time.

A long-time beverage editor, writer, and expert guides readers through fifty-two weeks of drinking and discovery to ultimately demystify the liquor aisle.

This ones perfect if your New Years resolution really was to drink better. Its a series of 52 essays that go on a tour of basically all parts of the beverage-alcohol world, from a Scotch guide in week 1 to an introduction to Cremant dAlsace sparkling wine in week 52. It covers topics ranging from chile pepper-spiked beers to baijiu, Chinas favorite distilled spirit. The book concludes with a Cocktailing Adventurously section featuring recipes from bars around the world . . . Playboy

Author Jeff Cioletti can recommend one that readers are very likely to stick with throughout 2017: Drink adventurously. In his book,The Year of Drinking Adventurously: 52 Ways l“\