Ben Gibson

All alcoholic beverages are fermented {...} but fermented beverages can then be distilled...

What a fun book! And surprisingly substantive, with almost 200 pages of info-graphics about beer, wine and spirits -- their histories, their relationships to one another, how/where they’re produced, how they’re served. The design style and color palette aren’t totally to my taste, but the information-dense content is -- lots to unpack and analyze. (Though sometimes so detailed it's nearly show more impossible to decipher, e.g. Whiskey Mixology.)

For fun, take a look at Fantastical Fictive Beers and The Cocktail Chart of Film and Literature. And see lots more info-graphics (including on other topics) at the authors’ site, Pop Chart Lab. show less

Extremely annotated versions of classic books such as Pride and Prejudice, as told by adorable monsters. Adults will get a kick out of the humor, and children will giggle at the not-so-scary monsters as they act out literature's most famous works.

Not impressed with the illustrations or the storytelling. Maybe too ghastly for me.