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Proof audiobook

  • By: Adam Rogers
  • Narrator: Sean Runnette
  • Category: General, Science
  • Length: 8 hours 45 minutes
  • Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
  • Publish date: January 01, 2014
  • Language: English
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Proof Audiobook Summary

A spirited narrative on the fascinating art and science of alcohol sure to inspire cocktail party chats on making booze, tasting it, and its effects on our bodies and brains.

Drinking gets a lot more interesting when you know what’s actually inside your glass of microbrewed ale, single-malt whisky, or Napa Cabernet Sauvignon. All of them begin with fermentation, where a fungus called yeast binges on sugar molecules and poops out ethanol. Humans have been drinking the results for ten thousand years. Distillation is a two-thousand-year-old technology–invented by a woman–that we’re still perfecting today. And the molecular codes of alcoholic flavors remain a mystery pursued by scientists with high-tech laboratories and serious funding.

In Proof, Adam Rogers reveals alcohol as a miracle of science, going deep into the pleasures of making and drinking booze–and the effects of the latter. The people who make and sell alcohol may talk about history and tradition, but alcohol production is really powered by physics, molecular biology, organic chemistry, and a bit of metallurgy–and our taste for those products is a melding of psychology and neurobiology.

Proof takes readers 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 in the world–and to more than one bar–bringing to life the motley characters and evolving science behind the latest developments in boozy technology.

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Proof Audiobook Narrator

Sean Runnette is the narrator of Proof audiobook that was written by Adam Rogers

Sean Runnette, an Earphones Award-winning narrator, has also directed and produced more than two hundred audiobooks, including several Audie Award winners. He is a member of the American Repertory Theater company and has toured the United States and internationally with ART and Mabou Mines. His television and film appearances include Two If by Sea, Cop Land, Sex and the City, Law & Order, the award-winning film Easter, and numerous commercials.

About the Author(s) of Proof

Adam Rogers is the author of Proof

Proof Full Details

Narrator Sean Runnette
Length 8 hours 45 minutes
Author Adam Rogers
Category
Publisher Blackstone Publishing
Release date March 28, 2024
ISBN 9781482994797

Subjects

The publisher of the Proof is Blackstone Publishing. includes the following subjects: The BISAC Subject Code is General, Science

Additional info

The publisher of the Proof is Blackstone Publishing. The imprint is Blackstone Publishing. It is supplied by Blackstone Publishing. The ISBN-13 is 9781482994797.

Global Availability

This book is only available in the United States.

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