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A spirited narrative on the exciting art and research of alcohol, certain to inspire cocktail get together chats on making booze, tasting it, and its own effects on our anatomies and brains. Drinking gets far more interesting when you understand what's actually inside your glass of microbrewed ale, single-malt whisky, or Napa Cabernet Sauvignon. All of them get started with fermentation, in which a fungus called candida binges on sugars substances and poops out ethanol. Humans have been sipping the results for 10,000 years. Distillation is a 2,000-year-old technology - created by a female - that we're still perfecting today. Along with the molecular codes of alcoholic tastes remain a mystery pursued by experts with high-tech laboratories and serious money. In Proof, Adam Rogers unveils alcohol as a miracle of science, going deep into the pleasures of making and sipping booze - and the consequences of the last mentioned. Individuals who make and sell alcohol may talk about history and custom, but alcohol creation is really powered by physics, molecular biology, organic and natural chemistry, and a lttle bit of metallurgy - and our style for those products is a melding of mindset and neurobiology. Proof takes visitors from the whisky-making mecca of the Scottish highlands to the oenology labs at UC Davis, from Kentucky bourbon country to the most sophisticated gene-sequencing labs on earth - also to several bar - taking to life the motley heroes and evolving research behind the latest developments in boozy technology.
