CAMRA’s Tasting Notes: The Art and Science of Pairing Beer with Music by Pete Brown has won silver in the Best Book category at the North American Guild of Beer Writers (NAGBW) awards.
Tasting Notes blends music, beer and science to show how sound changes flavour, transforming the reader’s appreciation of both beer and music.
Beer writer and author Pete Brown uses popular science to explain how our senses work, how we appreciate flavour, sound, and the world around us. The engaging book uncovers how our senses interact in ways we don’t even realise and proves how you can change the way your beer tastes by simply listening to your favourite tunes.
Across 45 pairings of songs and beers, Tasting Notes covers a wide range of genres including rock, grime, jazz, alt pop, country, folk rock, electronic and progressive trance.
The book even features QR codes that give you instant access to the full playlist, with songs from Primal Scream, Joy Division plus more, matched with an eclectic list of beers.
Judges said: “The spectacular mixture of deep neuroscience, beer expertise, and true appreciation for refined music is wonderfully woven together here.”
The NAGBW awards celebrate the best in beer media across 18 categories. This year, the competition consisted of 246 works from 78 authors, writers, journalists, historians, podcasters, professors and other creators. These entrants represented 12 countries, 21 US states and territories, and one Canadian province.
Tasting Notes can be ordered from CAMRA’s online bookshop here: shop1.camra.org.uk/product/tasting-notes/
The full NAGBW awards ceremony is available to watch on YouTube here: youtu.be/Pje4Qc_A2VA
