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u/OleWorm · 2 pointsr/Cicerone

I found the MBAA Practical Handbooks (Vol 1-3) to be essential for brewing processes and ingredients: https://my.mbaa.com/ItemDetail?iProductCode=519KIT

Edit to add: Vol 3 is probably the least essential of the MBAA books, but you might as well as buy the set!

The BA books on the raw materials (Water, Hops, Yeast, Malt) are great reads, but I found the MBAA books to be more than enough to cover the syllabus (I had read the BA books before, but preferred the MBAA books for reviewing, since it's laid out in a Q&A format)

John Palmer's How to Brew website is also great for a quick reference:
http://www.howtobrew.com/

The Cellarmanship book is boring as hell, but you can definitely expect some cask service questions on the exam -- and I'd say that 95% of the beer professionals in the US probably don't deal with cask on a regular basis, so it's a must-read: https://www.amazon.com/Cellarmanship-Patrick-ONeill/dp/1852492783

I basically carried out a printed and bound copy of the 2015 BJCP guidelines and the MBAA books with me everywhere for about 8 months. Good luck!

u/Mr-Hox · 4 pointsr/Cicerone

I'd highly recommend the book Beer, Food, and Flavor: A Guide to Tasting, Pairing, and the Culture of Craft Beer by Schuyler Schultz. It was a great addition to the beer book library and really expands on the already wonderful info found in Tasting Beer.

https://www.amazon.com/Beer-Food-Flavor-Tasting-Pairing/dp/1616086793

u/dar482 · 2 pointsr/Cicerone

Horse blanket/barnyard tends to be the descriptor. If you're unhappy with that, I see tons of other descriptors in that thread. I'm not sure what you're looking for.

horse blanket, musty, funky, crawlspace, and urine soaked hay (in a good way). Compost pile, funky, moldy, poop, manure. musty basement, barn, sweaty leather, musty hay, decomposing organics, Tack room, barn, hay, manure, plastic, damp soil., Pony quilt, maybe "forest floor" and "dirt" which people do say, 1) Cow pasture
2) Dairy farm
3) Cow manure


"Brett produces phenols.
Some give the clove and smokey aromas.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4-ethylguaiacol
4-ethyl phenol gives the barnyard and horsey aroma.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4-ethylphenol

Ethyl Lactate gives the furity aroma.

A compound called tetrahydropyridines gives a urine aroma (often termed mouse urine).

You can look those up. Some of you will not be convinced though.

If you are more interested read this book.
http://www.amazon.com/Wild-Brews-Culture-Craftsmanship-Tradition/dp/0937381861"





Here's a more scientific take on it by Aroxa, but I don't think that's what you're looking for either.

http://www.aroxa.com/cider/cider-flavour-standard/4-ethyl-phenol/

Hope you find better descriptors. Please post if you do.